Special Tests For Injuries Flashcards
Anterior shoulder instability
- Load & shift test
- Rowe test for anterior instability
- prone anterior instability test
AC joint sprain/ possible soft or bony pathology
- Apley scratch test
Anterior capsule, inferior GH, or glenoid labrum have been compromised
- Apprehension test
Increased laxity in anterior capsule due to capsular damage / labra tear
- Relocation test
Laxity in posterior GH capsule / torn posterior labrum
- Posterior apprehension test
Inferior GH laxity
- Sulcus sign
Slap lesion
- grind test
- anterior slide test
- speeds test
- Biceps 2 load test
- o’briens test
Primary: tear or laxity of transverse humoral ligament
Secondary: bicepital tendinopathy
- Yergasons test
AC joint pathology
- O’briens test
Posterior shoulder instability
- Push-pull test
Poster inferior instability with or without posteroinferior labral tear
- Jerk test
Inferior shoulder instability
- feagin test
Shoulder instability
- Rowe test for multidirectional instability
Supraspinatus tendon is weak, impinged, or partially/fully torn
-Supraspiratus (empty can)
Lesions to the rotator cuff, especially the supraspinatus
- Drop arm
Tears/weakness of subscapular muscle - possible C5,C6, C7 nerve root pathology
- Lift off sign
Subscapularis tear
- Belly press
Rotator cuff pathology (especially suprospinous)
- neer impingement test
- Hawkins Kennedy implication test
LHBB tendon pathology
- neer impingement test
- Hawkins Kennedy implication test
Impingement of rotator cuff /shoulder lesion
- Impingement test (external rotation)
