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tap: tap the ball or pad of the foot against the floor, use your ankle not your whole leg. heel tap: strike the heel of the foot on the floor and release it immediately. step: place the ball of the foot on the floor with a change of weight. touch: place the ball of the foot on the floor without change of weight.
Whilst standing beside the patient place your index finger on one of the lumbar vertebral spinous processes, and your middle finger on the next one down and ask the patient to bend over and touch their toes, keeping their legs straight. Normally, as the patient bends, the spinous processes will move apart, so your fingers will move apart also.
Markle's sign, or jar tenderness, is a clinical sign in which pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen is elicited by the heel-drop test (dropping to the heels, from standing on the toes, with a jarring landing). It is found in patients with localised peritonitis due to acute appendicitis. [1]
The obturator sign, also called Cope's obturator test, is an indicator of irritation to the obturator internus muscle. [1]The technique for detecting the obturator sign, called the obturator test, is carried out on each leg in succession.
The psoas sign, also known as Cope's sign (or Cope's psoas test [1]) or Obraztsova's sign, [2] is a medical sign that indicates irritation to the iliopsoas group of hip flexors in the abdomen, and consequently indicates that the inflamed appendix is retrocaecal in orientation (as the iliopsoas muscle is retroperitoneal).
The headstand, or sometimes head stand, is a pose that is an inversion posture of standing head down. The technique is used in different settings such as yoga, breakdancing, acrobatics and beginner gymnastics.
Fitness instructor Kathy Smith first experienced the Williams/Miller prototype step aerobics program during its early days, thinking "This is the most cutting-edge workout I’ve ever seen." [ 14 ] Miller and Williams formed a company called Bench Blast in late 1988, making wooden steps from 6 to 12 inches high. [ 11 ]
In medicine, Carnett's sign is a finding on clinical examination in which abdominal pain remains unchanged or increases when the muscles of the abdominal wall are tensed. [1] [2] For this part of the abdominal examination, the patient can be asked to lift the head and shoulders from the examination table to tense the abdominal muscles.