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Quadratus Lumborum Muscle Energy
CreatedJune 11, 2020
Last UpdatedFebruary 23, 2024
byMeghan
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Steps for Treatment:
- Patient prone with legs sidebent away from the affected side
- Physician standing on contralateral side to dysfunction
- Physician’s cephalad hand on 12th rib pushing laterally and cephalad
- Physician’s caudad hand grasps ASIS and pulls toward the ceiling
- The patient is instructed to push their ASIS toward the table while the physician resists the patient and exerts a medial and caudal force with the cephalad hand
- Resist for 3-5 seconds then instruct patient to relax
- Pause 1-2 seconds and take up the slack, and repeat at least 3 times
- Passive stretch then return to neutral
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