The Shoulder
Resisted horizontal adduction
Execution:
- The arm is elevated to the horizontal.
- The examiner stands on the painful side.
- He places one hand on the contralateral shoulder and one hand at the inner
side of the elbow.
- The patient is then asked to exert medial force against the examiner's hand.
- This movement tests maximally the pectoralis major muscle.
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