Always feel for movement in each separate joint. If you do not get it, shift the position of your patient slightly, and try again. I have little patience with the operator who just treats and trusts to luck that he has moved the joints. If a joint is in lesion and therefore does not move, this same movement given a little more strongly may now be used for specific correction. If the lesion is rotation with spinous process toward the left, now is the time to rotate it back toward the right.
Patient is stilon right side in position of slight side-bending.
The side-bending is obtained by placing a pillow under the shoulder and by the position of the legs. Operator faces patient and places the elbow of his right arm strongly against patient's left hip to immobilize it, the fingers of his right hand are used to localize and to feel for movement. Operator's left hand is placed against patient's left shoulder. By pressing against shoulder he rotates the patient's trunk backward. It will be found that each spinous procees in turn moves to the right of the one below.