Clinical Tests | A list of clinical tests that detects/confirms a physical or mental feature which is regarded as an indication of a disease.
Purpose of Fulcrum test (anterior glenohumeral instability): To test if there is an anterior instability of the glenohumeral joint (1). Patient position: Supine lying. Examiner position: Stand facing the patient’s affected side. Procedure: Gently flex the patient’s affected side elbow joint to 90 degrees and abduct the shoulder joint to 90 degrees, maintaining the humerus in neutral rotation. Gently perform lateral rotation of the patient’s … Continue reading Fulcrum test
Purpose of Apprehension test (anterior glenohumeral instability): To test if there is an anterior instability of the glenohumeral joint (1). Patient position: Supine lying. Examiner position: Stand facing the patient’s affected side. Procedure: Grasp the elbow and wrist of the patient’s affected arm using your left and right hands respectively. Gently flex the patient’s affected side elbow joint to 90 degrees and abduct the shoulder … Continue reading Apprehension test
The pain drawing On a standardised and styled graphic representation, a self-reported multi-coloured graphic representation of the location and distribution of pain and other symptoms Six different colours signify six different sorts of symptoms, as shown below: Yellow = aching Blue = burning Green = pins & needles Black = numbness Red = stabbing pain The use of colours rather than symbols had not been … Continue reading The pain drawing and Measurement of pain intensity
Purpose of Anterior Drawer Test (anterior glenohumeral instability): To test if there is an anterior instability of the glenohumeral joint. Patient position: Supine lying. Examiner position: Stand facing the patient’s affected side. Procedure: Place the patient’s affected shoulder just over edge of the examination table. Assuming the patient’s left shoulder is being tested, fix the patient’s left hand in the examiner’s right axilla by adducting … Continue reading Anterior Drawer Test
Spurling’s Test: The purpose is to identify the presence of cervical radiculopathy among patients with upper quadrant pain. (1, 2). Patient Position: Sitting upright. Examiner Position: Standing beside or behind the patient. Procedure: Move the patient’s head into lateral flexion/rotation to the unaffected side. Carefully apply axial compression vertically downwards through the head. Repeat the same on the affected side. Bradley et al. suggestions: Compress the head in neutral position. … Continue reading Spurling’s test
