Shoulder Extension Range of Motion

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All right. Now we're going to measure shoulder extension range of motion. Our athlete’s going to be in the prone position with the head in neutral. And we're going to still use our same seize grip stabilizing position. This time I'm going to have my thumb on the backside of the scapula, and my fingers are going to be on the anterior aspect of the shoulder with one finger on the coracoid process controlling for that movement. So I going to come in and I'm going to passively extend his shoulder until I start to feel movement of that coracoid process underneath my fingers. And that's where we're going to take our measurement from. So let's bring in the goniometer We're going to line up the fulcrum of the goniometer with the greater tuberosity of the shoulder. The moving arm is going to be along the midline of the humerus, and our stationary arm is going to be in the midline of the thorax. We'll take that measurement up. As soon as I start to feel that motion underneath my finger at the coracoid, that's where we'll take our measurement.

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