Lumbar-Mammillary Contact
Patient Position

  • Same as for spinous contacts, except pronated slightly 
Locating Mammillary of L5
Doctor's Stance

  • Straddle patient’s bent knee

  • DC’s hip to patient’s hip

  • Weight on superior foot

  • Stabilize patient into the table

  • Back straight

  • Forearm in L.O.C.

  • Superior hand stabilizes anterior shoulder

  • Lean into body drop
Locating Mammillary for PR-M
SCP

  • Opposite S.P. laterality on high mammillary

  • Contact Point. = #1 fleshy pisiform

  • Contact Hand =  Inferior Hand

  • Fingers parallel to spine, pointing superior
Mammillary contact for PL-M
LOC

  • P ®  A

  • I ®  S(L1,  L2)

  • S ®  I (L4, L5)

  • Thru disc plane line

  • Torque to close wedge

 
Mammillary PR-M side posture setup
Tissue Pull

  • M ®  L , to get erector spinae muscle out of way of mammillary

 
Listings

  • PR-M, PL-M,

  • PLI-M, PRI-M

  • PRS-M, PLS-M (L5 only)

 

                                                                                                                                                                                             

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