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3.3.5.

Therapy for the extensor digitorum communis.

Starting Position: P: Supine; arm flexed approx-imately 90° and fully medially rotated; forearm flexed and fully pronated; hand fully volar flexed and fingers fully flexed at all joints. T: Standing facing P’s right side.

Grip: Ts right hand grips dorsal side of P's hngers so that fuli flexion is maintained at all finger joints. P’s hand is held in fuli volar flexion, and the forearm is fully pronated. Ts left hand stabilizes P’s upper arm at the dorsal side just above the elbow.

Fig. 37 a. Starting Position.

Procedurę: Using this grip, T gradually and fully extends at P’s elbow and simultaneously draws the forearm in the ulnar direction.

Stimulation of Antagonists: T retains right-hand grip, and reverses left-hand grip to ventral-medial side of P’s elbow. T then asks P to move further in the direction of stretching, and resists that movement to stimulate P’s antagonists.

Notę: This techniąue and therapy is especially use-ful in treating epicondylitis.

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Fig. 37 b. Finał Position.

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