Advanced Transverse View Assessment
Temporal Bones
- With fingers parallel to the floor place fingers into the external auditory meatus on either side to the rear upmost position along the bony surface.
- Keeping your eyes above the client (you may need to stand on stall or bench).
Obliquity (Head)
- Ensure head is not tilted.
- Place pen along the lateral surface of the temporal bones, pointing anteriorly
- The side the points more medially is the inflated side.
Humeral Heads
- Place thumbs on the anterior surface of the humeral heads.
- Keeping eyes about the client (you may need to stand on stall or bench), determine if one shoulder is more anterior than the other.
Sternum
- Place thumbs on anterior surface of the third ribs.
- Keeping eyes above client (you may need to stand on stall or bench), determine if one side is anterior to the other.
Anterior Superior Iliac Spine
- Place thumbs on the anterior aspect of the ASIS.
- Keeping eyes above the client determine if one is more anterior to the other.
