Scapho-Trapezio-Trapezoid Extension 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
• Wrist in radial deviation (indirect scaphoid fixation)

Hand placement:

• Therapist’s ipsilateral hand fixates the patients forearm at the wrist
• Other hand grabs the patient’s thumb and thenar eminence including the trapezii like in an arm wrestling position

Direction:

• Roll into dorsal and increasingly proximal direction
• Glide by a push on the trapezii into dorsal and increasingly proximal direction