Trick movements are modified movements that patients use consciously or unconsciously to accomplish tasks requested by examiners during examinations. For example, if an examiner asks a patient with deltoid paralysis to abduct their arm, the patient can achieve this by laterally rotating their shoulder and using their bicep muscle rather than their deltoid muscle to abduct the arm.
Trick movements are modified movements that patients use consciously or unconsciously to accomplish tasks requested by examiners during examinations. For example, if an examiner asks a patient with deltoid paralysis to abduct their arm, the patient can achieve this by laterally rotating their shoulder and using their bicep muscle rather than their deltoid muscle to abduct the arm.
Trick movements are modified movements that patients use consciously or unconsciously to accomplish tasks requested by examiners during examinations. For example, if an examiner asks a patient with deltoid paralysis to abduct their arm, the patient can achieve this by laterally rotating their shoulder and using their bicep muscle rather than their deltoid muscle to abduct the arm.
PATIENT CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY USES TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT THE EXAMINER HAS ASKED THE PATIENT TO DO.
• E.g.- IN PRESENCE OF DELTOID PARALYSIS, IF THE
EXAMINER ASKS THE PATIENT TO ABDUCT THE ARM, THE PATIENT CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS MOVEMENT BY LATERALLY ROTATING THE SHOULDER & USING THE BICEPS MUSCLE TO ABDUCT THE ARM.