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[Porcelain]

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@Jaspersmom wrote:

The picture is misleading.  I panicked when I saw it because mine did exactly what I saw in the pic.  Then I went back an read it again.  ANYWAY, keep your palm FLAT and then try to extend your thumb.  IF it goes PAST your palm (not on it), then you MIGHT have something to worry about.  Best piece of advice is if you have any concerns about your heart health, see your DOCTOR.

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Same! Then I realized I was curving my hand.

ETA: Try doing it while looking at the back of your hand to make sure it is completely spread out and flat. Then turn it over to look at your thumb. When I do it like that I don't even get close.

[Sooner]

Also, piano players are used to thumb under the hand moves.  

I never buy stuff like this.  Remember when if there was a crease in your earlobe you'll die a week-of Sunday, and something about if your earlobes hang free or attached.  

[Drythe]

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@hckynut wrote:

Primary cause of my CAD? Did not get to pick my mother.

john(hckynut)

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@hckynut 

Good to see you John, Best to you, Cindy, and the Kitties 🐱 

[Mindy D]

This is also one of the tests for Ehlers  Danlos.

[Anonymous032819]

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@Sooner wrote:

Also, piano players are used to thumb under the hand moves.  

I never buy stuff like this.  Remember when if there was a crease in your earlobe you'll die a week-of Sunday, and something about if your earlobes hang free or attached.  

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@Sooner 

Agreed.

Next there will be a "study" that says if you can curl your tongue, wrinkle your nose, wink, make a fish face, that you will have heart disease. 

[mom2four0418]

This statement, from news.yale.edu, was not included in the article posted:

"For at least the past two decades, Elefteriades said, he and his colleagues have included the thumb-palm test in lectures to medical students and used the test for patients who might be at risk of carrying an aneurysm.

Yet despite its frequent usage, the test’s accuracy had not been evaluated in a clinical setting, the researchers said."

[ID2]

Ridiculous to believe, from an article, that the dexterity of your thumb shows the function of your heart.