A 71 year old male patient presented with a history of stroke and limited elbow ROM. Exam revealed lead pipe type restriction in passive elbow flexion and extension. I performed IRT and he had no restriction in passive elbow flexion. -DR. AL STANGL, ALLENTOWN,...
An 11 year old female patient presented with left groin (inguinal) pain, 1 week onset after a dance injury. Exam revealed pain on right/left Kemps test in the low back area and pain at the injury site with active hip flexion. Passive hip abduction was 145 degrees on...
A 10 year old boy was brought in by his mother who has been a patient for years. She had previously told me about her son: After his MMR vaccination he was diagnosed with mental retardation. The next year’s exam he was diagnosed with severe autism, the following...
A 19 year old male college student presented with weakness in the left triceps. When he lifted weights, he did not have the strength in his left arm that he had on the right. This was particularly evident with bench pressing, as he had to “wobble” the weights up. ...
A 13 year old patient presented with stabbing pains in the stomach that had been present since she was 5 years old. She had been through a medical “merry-go-round” and had even had her gall bladder removed in an attempt to handle the problem a couple of years earlier....
One of our “incurable” cancer patients was having excruciating pain in the left shoulder, radiating to the lateral upper trapezius muscle. After clearing all obvious and known injuries, a weak indicator muscle persisted that was facilitated by rubbing over his R...
A 41 year old female actor presented with severe acute upper thoracic-lower cervical pain associated with spasm in the right upper trapezius and right levator scapula. Onset of the discomfort began during her performance on stage. She is on stage for 8 two-hour...
A 48 year old male Caucasian laborer/heavy equipment operator, being treated mainly for neck pain, complains of medial left knee and lateral leg pain (insidious onset). He mentions this has been there, off and on over the years, since a left medial meniscectomy was...
A 48 year old male Caucasian laborer/heavy equipment operator presents with progressive worsening of neck tightness and ”locking” and right lumbar pain which began following a fall and fracture of the right 11th rib three weeks earlier. Left trunk rotation still...
A woman in her mid 50’s presented with a disrupted sleep pattern since a disfiguring automobile accident 20 years prior. She had major damage to her face, ribs, legs, spine and chest area from the accident. She had many reconstruction surgeries as well. Her...
A women in her late 60’s was involved in an automobile accident with a fracture of her C-2 vertebrae. She was seen 6 weeks after her accident and was wearing a cervical collar. IRT was preformed using the talus instead of the head flexion, on all injuries as...
A 45 year old female presented with neck pain and weakness, radiating pain down the arm, and constipation which had lasted 3 days. Right cervical rotation was 30 degrees, limited by severe pain. Spinal motion of cervicals presented as uncoupled. IRT to indicated...
