Postural Assessment (Hands-on Guides for Therapists) by Jane Johnson

Author:Jane Johnson [Johnson, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781450424875
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2011-12-21T17:00:00+00:00

What Your Findings Mean If you agree that the left and right PSIS should be positioned on the same horizontal plane, yet observe one to be higher, this suggests that the pelvis is laterally tilted.

STEP 4 Pelvic Rotation

(a) Pelvis rotated anti-clockwise (to the left).

(b) Normal pelvis.

(c) Pelvis rotated clockwise (to the right).

Like a cube-shaped bead on a piece of string, the pelvis can rotate with respect to the spine in the way that the bead can rotate with respect to the string. With your hands on the pelvis of the client, see if you can determine whether the pelvis is rotated with respect to the lumbar spine. (You will need to check this by viewing your client both laterally and anteriorly using the charts in the appendix.) Is it rotated clockwise, in which case the right side of the pelvis will be closer to you and the left side away from you? Or is it rotated anti-clockwise, in which case the left side of the pelvis will be closer to you and the right side farther away. The illustrations above exaggerate rotator movements; in reality, they are far more subtle.

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