DOUBLE CONTACT MOVE

Uses

This is indicated for postero-rotary or postero-lateral subluxations. Its line of force is a bisector of the angle between the straight anterior and the straight lateral movement.

Fig. 18. A movement for Atlas when laterally displaced. Contact: metacarpo-phalangeal joint with end of prominent transverse.

Contact

There are two points of contact, both on the first finger, one (first secured) on the radial side of the second phalanx and the other on the radial side of the proximal phalanx. The first contact point is placed against the tip of the spinous, the other behind the transverse process.

Press slightly against the two processes with the finger so as to feel them plainly.

Completing Position