Sitting, standing, or lying supine
Anterior to the patient.
Please sit down. May I touch under your chin? (or point to the area). Please hold your mouth open while I try to close it.
Guide the patient to sit down. With the patient relaxed and with permission, place your fingers of one hand on the suprahyoid muscles. Place the fingers of your other hand under the jaw. Ask the patient to open his/ her mouth then hold while you try to close the jaw.
VH - Head and spine skeleton with the suprahyoid muscles and tendons
On the other side add infrahyoids, platysma, sternocleidomastoid, sternohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid, omohyoid, longus colli and capitis, scalenes, sternocleidomastoid, muscles and tendons