Meaning of heel-palm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A blow in which the heel of the palm strikes an opponent.
2. A technique for evaluating the reduction of a hip or femur by holding the patient's heels in one's palms with both legs in abduction and internal rotation, then noting the amount of external rotation of the feet when the internal rotation is released.

Examples

“... and I smashed my hand down on the gun to my left and it roared and I felt for the man's throat and made the kill as the other man brought his gun up and fired wild and I went in very close and used a heel-palm and drove the nose bone upward into the brain as Ibrahimi screamed something and I saw the flash of a blade and blocked it....”

“In one-step number two the defender does a knife-hand block. Then he punches with his right hand. And he finishes with a left heel-palm.”

“I blocked a punch, blocked a kick, and answered with a heel-palm to the first man's throat.”

“Whichever of these methods of manipulative reduction is used, a simple test for reduction, the Leadbetter heel-palm test, can be applied.”

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