Patient Position: supine, with the hip flexed, slightly abducted, and internally rotated with the knee flexed.
Clinician Position & Hand Placement:
Standing on the contralateral side of the hip being mobilized.
Stabilization is provided by the patient’s body weight. Additionally, your stabilization hand or bolster is placed under the patient’s posterior ischium just proximal to the patient’s hip.
Place your clasped mobilization hands or single mobilization hand over the patient’s flexed knee with your forearms in line with the postero-lateral direction of force.
Force Application:
With your hand contacts in place, take up the slack in the joint and apply a postero-lateral glide through the long axis of the femur.
Alternately, you may apply a postero-lateral glide as you bring the patient’s hip into progressively greater ranges of hip flexion.
