Supine Leg Check: Common Mistakes and How to Correct Them (4/4) Walking the Hips and How to Solve Other Physical Factors: 5) Sometimes patients become lazy and attempt to walk their hips instead of systematically gliding back. This defeats the purpose of the leg check by hiding the pelvic obliquity, causing it when none is present or distorting the findings, appearing that the opposite leg is short. If this occurs, the patient must be repositioned. There will be times when the patient must stand up and reposition a few times to get it right, but this is necessary for accuracy. 6) If there are physical factors that make it difficult for the patient to position properly, then the patient may stand straddling the table, sit down and lie back and then raise the legs up onto the table.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:00:01 +0000
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