special tests

Question 1

name the special tests of the hip

Answer 1

modified Thomas test
Ober’s test
Trendelenburg
FADDIR
FABER
FADER-r

Question 2

name the special tests for the knee

Answer 2

joint line tenderness
McMurrays
Thessaly
Lachmans
Anterior drawer
posterior drawer
valgus stress test
varus stress test

Question 3

name the special tests for the foot and ankle

Answer 3

anterior drawer test
talor tilt test
Thompson test
syndesmosis squeeze test

Question 4

what does the modified Thomas test test

Answer 4

tightness in either rectus femoris, hip adductors or hip flexors

Question 5

what does obers test

Answer 5

tightness in gluteus medius and minimus

Question 6

what does Trendelenburg test

Answer 6

weakness in hip abductors (provocative for gluteal tendinopathy)

Question 7

What do FADDIR and FABER test for

Answer 7

FAI, labrum tear, OA

Question 8

What does FADER-r test for

Answer 8

gluteal tendinopathy

Question 9

which test would you use for meniscal tears

Answer 9

joint line tenderness
McMurrays
thessaly

Question 10

What are the tests for ruptured ACL

Answer 10

lachmans
anterior drawer

Question 11

What test tests for LCL tear

Answer 11

varus stress test

Question 12

what test tests for MCL tear

Answer 12

valgus stress test

Question 13

what does an anterior drawer of the ankle test for

Answer 13

ATFL laxity

Question 14

what ligament does plantarflexion and inversion test

Answer 14

ATFL

Question 15

what ligament does neutral and inversion test

Answer 15

CFL

Question 16

what ligament does dorsiflexion and inversion test

Answer 16

PTFL

Question 17

how do you carry out a syndesmosis squeeze test

Answer 17

squeeze tibia and fibula starting below the knee and moving distally

Question 18

what does a syndesmosis squeeze test test for

Answer 18

syndesmosis (the interosseous membrane that connects the tibia with fibula) rupture

Question 19

name the special tests of the shoulder

Answer 19

hawkins-kennedy
full can/empty can
drop arm sign
lift off test
belly press test
apprehension/jobes relocation test
sulcus test
load and shift test

Question 20

which tests would you use for rotator cuff related shoulder pain

Answer 20

hawkins-kennedy
full can/empty can
belly press test

Question 21

which tests would you use for rotator cuff tear

Answer 21

drop arm sign
lift off test

Question 22

which rotator cuff does the belly press test test

Answer 22

subscapularis

Question 23

which tests would you use for shoulder instability

Answer 23

apprehension/Jobes relocation test
sulcus test
load and shift

Question 24

what are the special tests for the elbow, wrist and hand

Answer 24

mills test
cozen’s test
phalens test
tinnels test
active and passive test
finkelstein

Question 25

what tests would you use for tennis elbow (lateral epicondylalgia)

Answer 25

mill’s and cozen’s

Question 26

what tests would you use for carpal tunnel syndrome

Answer 26

tinels and phalens

Question 27

what test would you use for DeQuervains

Answer 27

finkelstein

Question 28

what test would you use for golfers elbow

Answer 28

active and passive test

Question 29

how do you perform active test for elbow

Answer 29

resisted wrist flexion

Question 30

how do you perform passive test for elbow

Answer 30

passive wrist extension/supination

Question 31

how do you perform mills

Answer 31

flex wrist and extend elbow

Question 32

how do you perform cozens

Answer 32

elbow in flexion
resisted wrist extension