Lumbar Flashcards
Patient Seated with legs flexed at 90˚, Legs are extended one at a time, Followed by both legs extended
Bechterew’s Test
AKA: Flip test or Seated straight leg raise
Patient Seated, Examiner holds shoulder as patient leans obliquely backwards.
Kemp’s Test
Patient supine, examiner lifts leg with knee
straight.
Straight Leg Raise
(SLR test)
aka Lasegue’s
- patient supine
- Examiner lifts leg with knee extended until leg
radiation produced, - Lower leg to point that eases pain & then dorsiflex foot.
Braggard’s test
Supine: The unaffected leg is
passively raised.
Well Leg Raise
Fajersztan’s Test
- Patient supine
- Place foot on opposite knee.
- Hip in flexed, abducted, and externally rotated.
- Press down on knee
Patrick-Fabere’s Test
- Patient Prone
- Examiner places firm pressure
over the tested S/I joint fixing
pelvis. - Thigh is hyperextended by examiner
Yeoman’s Test
- Prone & Flex one knee.
- Examiner passively flexes heel to
buttock.
Ely’s test
- Patient prone & knee flexed 90°
- Passively internally rotate the femur
maximally
Hibb’s Test
MOST SI SPECIFIC TEST
GAENSLEN’S TEST
- Patient supine
- Flex opposite thigh to abdomen and
hold (side not being tested) - Hyperextend other hip (Side being tested) by
slowly lowering femur off table. - Apply downward pressure on the
hyperextended thigh.
GAENSLEN’S TEST
Positive hip extension test
ipsilateral erector spinae fires before the gluteus maximus
- Pt standing in neutral or bent forward.
- Patient tends to Flex knee on the affected side
Neri’s Bowing Sign
disc narrowing is greater than posterior
joint degeneration.
Retrolithesis
posterior joints are more degenerated than the disc
Anterolisthesis
