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Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation - Principles and Techniques (Part II)

By Carolyn Kisner PT, MS and Lynn Allen Colby PT, MS on June 11th 2008

UPPER EXTREMITY DIAGONAL PATTERNS

NOTE: All descriptions for hand placements are for the patient’s right (R) upper extremity. During each pattern tell the patient to watch the moving hand. Be sure that rotation shifts gradually from internal to external rotation (or vice versa) throughout the range. By mid-range, the arm should be in neutral rotation. Manual […]

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Tags: dynamic, facilatation, isometric, Neuromuscular, PNF, Resistance Exercise, Therapeutic Exercise

Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation - Principles and Techniques (Part I)

By Carolyn Kisner PT, MS and Lynn Allen Colby PT, MS on June 11th 2008

I NTRODUCTION

Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) is an approach to therapeutic exercise that combines functionally based diagonal patterns of movement with techniques of neuromuscular facilitation to evoke motor responses and improve neuromuscular control and function. This widely used approach to exercise was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by the pioneering work of Kabat, Knott, […]

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