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exercises
Factors – elements in any mobilization manipulation
1 FLEXION OPENING-DIVERGENCE
OTHER FACTORS
2 CONTRALATERAL OPENING-DIVERGENCE TRACTION
LATERAL BENDING
CONTRALATERAL OPENING-DIVERGENCE
COMPRESSION
3
ROTATION SLIP / SLIDE
Stage N
Mechanism I
NATURE COMBINE
STAGE • ARTICULAR FINDINGS
• ACUTE MECHANISM: • MUSCULAR • DOMINANT
IRRITABILITY MECHANISM
• SUB-ACUTE OPENING • NEURAL
SEVERITY AT THIS TIME
• CHRONIC CLOSING • BIO PSYCHO
POINT
• OTHER
Selection of Mobilizations
Strategy:
(Neural involvement) 1. No articular technique to "irritate" the
nerve. "Articular" movements that relieve the
• Articular mechanism dominant nerve without secondary loss of ROM. Towards
irritates the nerve Centralization if occurs
• With compression ?
2. The mechanical environment in movements
• Tension or Sliding provokes or positions that relieve the nerve
irritation?
• Combination ? 3. Sliders or Tensioners at the minimum
irritability ROM
• How irritable?
(Neural involvement) dominant nervous mechanism
• BIO-PSYCHO
• OTHER
• SMALL VOLUME
Stage OF EXERCISE
AND AWAY FROM
THE PAIN
ACUTE • PROGRESSIVE
SUB-ACUTE AGGRAVATION
CHRONIC • PROGRESSIVE
AGGRAVATION +
GRADATION
AND OBJECTIVES
Directional preference / Copy the mobilization pattern / gradual
adaptation stage depended