Osteopathic Treatment of the Upper Extremities: Forearm

00:01 I wanna talk a little bit about pain in the forearm.

00:03 Pain in the forearm is common after a fall, or trauma of some sort.

00:07 And we also have to evaluate whether or not there's been a facture, or do we worry more about somatic dysfunction and just muscle bruising.

00:13 The way to do that is to have the person bring their arms 90 degrees and supinate, and pronate.

00:21 Supinate and pronate If you wanna exacerbate the findings, put the hands out to 90 degrees, and repeat supination and pronation.

00:30 and supination If there's a question, bring the arm back, and we can examine them a little bit more thoroughly, looking at the radial head.

00:37 So you check the radial head and supinate and pronate If you have issues with supination, the radial head is probably posteriorly If you have trouble with pronation, the radial head has gone anteriorly.

00:49 So it's a good way of assessing where the radial head is.