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. 2022 Apr 27;9(5):33. doi: 10.3390/medicines9050033

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The principles of palpatory diagnosis and manipulative technique. The figure shows the procedure for the abduction of the legs. The osteopathic physician compares abduction of both left and right legs to determine which muscle to treat. Whichever leg has greater restriction compared to the other would be the leg selected for treatment.