Shoulder Joint Manual Therapy Techniques

Here is one more follow up note on the shoulder joint…

If you go back to one of my previous blog posts dated
March 18, 2009 on Manual Therapy for a ‘Catching Shoulder’,
you will have read that one of the manual therapy techniques that
I used was a glide and wind technique to target lengthening of the
anterior capsule.

Below is a picture that shows this technique as well as
a manual therapy technique that targets the posterior
capsule of the shoulder joint. Enjoy!

Wind and Glide slide

P.S. I am still working on the audio file from the previous post…

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Comments

  1. J. LaFleur
    February 8th, 2010 | 1:25 pm

    Hi there Michael.
    Just a point of clarification, if you don’t mind..

    For the Glide and Wind, targeting the anterior capsule…Are you mobilizing the labral aspect of the GH joint down into a posterior glide?? It seems a bit tricky if the other hand is not stabilizing the proximal end of the humerus in order to successfully mob or glide the labral end of the GH.
    Whenever you have a second to comment and elaborate, that would be much appeciated!!

    Thanks,
    Jean

  2. Michael Boni
    February 8th, 2010 | 11:14 pm

    Hi Jean,

    Thanks for your question…

    For this manual therapy technique targeting the anterior capsule, the scapula is
    stabilized by the table and my right hand would be on the anterior superior
    aspect of the humeral head pushing the humeral head posteriorly and inferior.

    My other hand is applying the force to wind the humerus into external rotation.
    The picture of the techniques shows my right hand slightly off the humeral head
    and it should be on the humeral head where the black arrow is located.

    Thanks for your comment.
    Michael

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