Seated Bilateral UE D2 Flexion Diagonals

  • The patient is sitting in a chair with their feet supported on the ground or small stool.
  • Instruct the patient to cross their arms, bend their elbows, pronate the forearms, flex the wrists and make a fist with both hands.
  • Ask the patient to slump and look down towards the floor.
  • Instruct the patient to inhale and bring both shoulder blades towards their opposite back pocket while they raise their arms up and diagonally across the body to end with their arms externally rotated, elbows extended forearms supinated and wrist and fingers extended. The head and upper trunk extend as they look up to the ceiling at the end of the movement.
  • Then the patient exhales and slowly returns their arms back to the starting position.
  • They repeat 6-8 times.
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