Contracting the abdominal muscles
The most effective way to make a patient contract his abdominal muscles is to put your hand beneath both heels and lift them up 30 cm, and then ask him to hold his straight legs up from the bed on his own.
This makes the rectus abdominal muscles contract and any mass deep to them is completely impalpable.
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