Pronation

Teaching Points

• Tie one end of the band around something sturdy at waist height with the arm being worked closet to the attachment point
  
  
• Wrap the other end around the end of a long thin object and hold the other end
  
  
• Band you elbow and position the upper arm by your side
  
  
• Start with your hand positioned so that your thumb faces up
  
  
• Pronate the hand (turn it over so that the palm faces down)
  
  
• Return to the starting position

Muscles Worked

• Pronator Teres
  
  
• Pronator Quadratus

Related Injuries

• Muscle and tendon inflammation
  
  
• De Quervains tenosynovitis