Shoulder exam Flashcards
What is the surface anatomy of the shoulder?
How do you test for bicipital tendonitis?
Palpate bicipital tendon and look for localized tenderness
Yergasons’s test
Speeds Maneuver
What is Yergasons Test?
Patients tries to suppinate arm while examiner resists with arm held flexed at 90 degrees at patients side
What is Speeds Maneuver?
How do you test for glenohumoral stability?
Apprehension test–> checks for anterior shoulder dislocation
How do you test for frozen shoulder?
Loss of passive range of motion of ROM
Scapulothoracic motion replaces glenohumoral ROM
Test by passive abduction of the shoulder while having hand on the scapulothoracic joint
What muscles compose the rotator cuff?
(SSIT)
Subscapularis
Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres Minor
How do you test the Subscapularis muscle for injury?
Lift off test
How do you test the supraspinatus for injury?
Jobs test
Drop arm test
What is Jobs test?
What is the drop arm test?
How do you test the infraspinatus for injury?
Resisted external rotation test
How do you test for impingement syndrome?
Painful arc test
Neer’s test
Hawkings test
What is the painful arc test?
What is neers test?
Forced flexion of the arm while pronated
What is Hawkins Test?
Shoulder placed in 90 degrees of foreward flexion and then forcibly internally rotated
What is the anatomy of the scapula?
