Radio-Scaphoid Flexion Roll & Glide

Position of the therapist:

• Standing or sitting across from the patient

Position of the patient:

• Sitting in front of the bench
• Elbow propped up on the bench

Hand placement:

• Therapist’s contralateral hand fixates the patients forearm at the wrist
• Other hand grabs the patient’s thumb and thenar eminence including the scaphoid like in an arm wrestling position
• Alternative: see video

Direction:

• Roll into palmar and increasingly proximal direction
• Glide by a push on the scaphoid into dorsal and increasingly distal direction