What are they used for?
The purpose is to provide short term pain relief and to restore pain-free, functional movements by achieving full range at the joint
contraindications
pregnancy
spondylosis
PPIVMS
dentify location, nature, severity and irritability of symptom
assess ROM and quality of movement
What would you do for pain?
Grade 1 and 2 with 30 reps. Goes through range but doesn’t hit resistance
What would you do for stiffness?
Grade 3 and 4. Sustained. Towards end of range but not in resistriction, to maintain ROM. Grade 4 begins at limitation and increases ROM.
PPAIVMs
looking for a reproduction of symptoms and looking for pain or stiffness in the joint. Stiffness will be like a bruise