{"id":2151,"date":"2011-04-25T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2011-04-25T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T14:29:44","slug":"scapular-assist-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/scapular-assist-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Scapular Assist Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Entry By: Tambra Marik, OTR\/L, OTD, CHT<\/h4>\n<p>The scapular assist test is performed with the therapist recreating the bio-mechanics of the scapula.\u00a0 The therapist manually upwardly rotates the scapula at the medial border with one hand while providing a posterior tilt at the superior border with the other hand.\u00a0 Often patients with impingement have a decrease of pain with scapular assistance (no diagnostic values or validity found for this test).\u00a0 Therapy Nugget:\u00a0 Manual scapular assist can be used for patients who can not tolerate stretching latissimus dorsi and pectoralis due to pain. \u00a0 Often this simply technique can be incorporated into clinical treatment.\u00a0 Try it.\u00a0 Your patients will be impressed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entry By: Tambra Marik, OTR\/L, OTD, CHT The scapular assist test is performed with the therapist recreating the bio-mechanics of the scapula.\u00a0 The therapist manually upwardly rotates the scapula at the medial border with one hand while providing a posterior tilt at the superior border with the other hand.\u00a0 Often patients with impingement have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}