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DISTRACTION TEST
Indications: Patient experiencing radicular symptoms of brachial plexus
or non-descript cervical pain.
Positive Finding – Relief of radicular pain
Generalized increased pain during test indicates a muscle spasm or strain (elongation of fibers). Cease
traction with this provocation.
FORAMINAL COMPRESSION TEST
- radicular symptoms of brachial plexus
or non-descript cervical pain.
SPURLING TEST
IS A MORE SPECIFIC COMPRESSION TEST TO
ASSESS THE FOREMINA 0F THE SIDE OF
LATERAL FLEXION AND EXTENSION
Valsalva Maneuver
Ask the patient to take a deep breath and
hold it with bearing down as if to relieve
the bowels.
* Additionally, due to its increase in
Thoracic pressure, it maybe used to
assess the middle-ear pressures and
creates physiological responses in the
blood pressure and heart rate
- Disc Herniation
- Neoplasm
- Osteophyte
- Compression Fracture
Reverse Bakody’s Sign
Neck & Upper Extremity pain
and/or paresthesia. Intolerance to cold. Cyanosis
of UE.
-PAIN with arm up- that’s why it is called reverse
Soto Hall Sign
Anterior Pain – suggests orthopedic pathology (i.e., compression fracture).
* Posterior Pain – suggests soft tissue injury (i.e., ligamentous).
O’Donoghue Maneuver
If pain is reproduced during:
* Resisted AROM – suggests muscle strain.
* Passive ROM – suggests soft tissue injury (i.e., ligamentous).
Conditions are not mutually exclusive
Schepelmann’s Sign
Positive Finding – Rib Pain
* Concave side: Intercostal neuritis
* Convex Side: Myofascitis, Pleuritis, Rib Fracture, Costal
subluxation.
Forestier’s Bowstring Sign
part of Spinal Ankylosis testing
Midline back pain with potential
costal involvement. Progressive decline in
thoracolumbar ROM.
Degrees for straight leg raise test
Minor’s Sign
Rust’s Sign
Regardless of etiology, this sign should be treated as a medical emergency.
Positive findings suggest:
* Severe Sprain
* Advanced Rheumatoid Arthritis
* Severe Subluxation
* Fracture
Nerve Tension Test (Bragard’s Sign)
-modified Straight-Leg test.
Examiner slowly flexes the hip
with extended knee until the limb is
brought into the range positive for
pain.
- Abruptly dorsiflex the foot
