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How To Select A Diagnostic Test?

A diagnostic test is a clinical procedure used to determine the presence, absence, or extent of a disease or condition. These tests are essential for diagnosing illnesses, guiding treatment decisions, and monitoring disease progression. They can involve various methods, such as physical examinations (e.g., manual tests such as valgus test of the knee, apprehension test of the shoulder), imaging (e.g., X-rays, MRIs), or laboratory tests … Continue reading How To Select A Diagnostic Test?

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How to Pinpoint Hip Joint Pain: Unlocking the Secrets of Diagnosis

Hip pain can have multiple causes, including non musculoskeletal, lumbosacral spine, intra-articular, and extra-articular. A consensus declaration has defined an evaluation algorithm for distinguishing the musculoskeletal causes of regional hip pain (Takla A et al. 2020). Lumbosacral and extra-articular diseases frequently coexist with intra-articular hip causes of pain (Takla A et al. 2020). As a result, a grasp of the complicated connections of the spine, … Continue reading How to Pinpoint Hip Joint Pain: Unlocking the Secrets of Diagnosis

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Neurodynamic assessment

Neurodynamic techniques are widely used as part of a multimodal strategy for treating patients with compression neuropathies. This blog will go through the use of neurodynamic testing as a diagnostic tool. Neurodynamic tests use particular combinations of spine and limb motions that impart mechanical stresses to a region of the nervous system to establish whether a patient’s symptoms are attributable to enhanced nerve mechanosensitivity (Elvey … Continue reading Neurodynamic assessment

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Diagnostic Accuracy

Diagnostic accuracy measures the likelihood that a test will correctly classify an individual, calculated as the sum of true positives and true negatives divided by the total number of individuals tested. This measure reflects a weighted average of sensitivity and specificity, where sensitivity is adjusted by the prevalence of the condition in the study population, and specificity is adjusted by the complement of the prevalence. … Continue reading Diagnostic Accuracy

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