You can hyperextend them by using a towel clenched between each hand with
about two feet of towel in between and rotating your extended arms over your
head to behind your back. Are you that flexible?

Severe muscle damage from a 22 pound bicycle. Next time get Suzzy or your
little sister to lift it.





"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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The range of motion test? Couldn't you do it yourself and figure out you
sprained a muscle?

Nope. I was asked to stretch my arms straight out and back. A nurse
pressed at
my arms hyperextending them. Can't see how I'd do this myself.
Diagnosis:
Chest wall pain. Presc. Viox (Rofecoxib).
I'll have a followup checkup with my doctor next week.
St. Francis is one of the top cardiac treatment centers in the USA.

RB