PRELIMS Special test Flashcards
Special Test for cervical muscle (deep neck flexors) strength:
- Craniocervical flexion test
- Deep neck flexor endurance test
Special Test For cervical spine mobility:
- Cervical flexion rotation test
Special Test for neurologic symptoms (cervical)
- Brachial plexus tension / compression test
- Brachial plexus provocation test
- Distraction test (if symptoms are severe)
- Doorbell sign
- Foraminal compression (Spurling) test (three stages) (if symptoms are absent or mild)
- Jackson Compression Test
- Shoulder Abduction (Relief) Test
- Upper limb neurodynamic (tension) tests (specific to particular nerve/nerve root symptoms)
Special Test for myelopathy:
- Romberg test
Special Test for cervical instability:
- Lateral shear test
- Posterior atlanto-occipital membrane test
- Sharp-Purser Test
- Transverse ligament stress test
Special Test for first rib mobility:
- First rib mobility
Special Test for vascular signs:
- Hold planned mobilization/manipulation position for at least 30 seconds watching for vertebral-basilar artery signs
Special Test for anterior shoulder (glenohumeral) instability:
- Apprehension (crank) release (“surprise”) test and Jobe relocation tests and modifications
- Load and shift test
Special Test for posterior shoulder (glenohumeral) instability:
- Jerk (Jahnke) test
- Norwood test
Special Test for inferior and multidirectional shoulder (glenohumeral) instability:
- Sulcus sign
- Feagin test (abduction inferior stability test)
Special Test for anterior impingement:
- Hawkins-Kennedy
- Neer test and modification
- Yokum test
Special Test for scapular dyskinesia:
- Scapular dyskinesia test
- Scapular load test
Special Test for posterior impingement:
- Posterior internal impingement test
Special Test for labral lesions:
- Active compression test of O’Brien
- Kim test I (biceps load test II)
Special Test for ligament and capsule pathology:
- Crank test
Special Test for acromioclavicular joint pathology
- Horizontal adduction (cross-body adduction) test
- Paxinos sign