- Home
- About Us
- Insider Access
- Online Courses
-
Resources
- Newsletter
- Business Minded Sports Physio Podcast
- Day in the Life of a Sports PT
- Residency Corner
-
Special Tests
>
-
Cervical Spine
>
- Alar Ligament Test
- Bakody's Sign
- Cervical Distraction Test
- Cervical Rotation Lateral Flexion Test
- Craniocervical Flexion Test (CCFT)
- Deep Neck Flexor Endurance Test
- Posterior-Anterior Segmental Mobility
- Segmental Mobility
- Sharp-Purser Test
- Spurling's Maneuver
- Transverse Ligament Test
- ULNT - Median
- ULNT - Radial
- ULNT - Ulnar
- Vertebral Artery Test
- Thoracic Spine >
-
Lumbar Spine/Sacroiliac Joint
>
- Active Sit-Up Test
- Alternate Gillet Test
- Crossed Straight Leg Raise Test
- Extensor Endurance Test
- FABER Test
- Fortin's Sign
- Gaenslen Test
- Gillet Test
- Gower's Sign
- Lumbar Quadrant Test
- POSH Test
- Posteroanterior Mobility
- Prone Knee Bend Test
- Prone Instability Test
- Resisted Abduction Test
- Sacral Clearing Test
- Seated Forward Flexion Test
- SIJ Compression/Distraction Test
- Slump Test
- Sphinx Test
- Spine Rotators & Multifidus Test
- Squish Test
- Standing Forward Flexion Test
- Straight Leg Raise Test
- Supine to Long Sit Test
-
Shoulder
>
- Active Compression Test
- Anterior Apprehension
- Biceps Load Test II
- Drop Arm Sign
- External Rotation Lag Sign
- Hawkins-Kennedy Impingement Sign
- Horizontal Adduction Test
- Internal Rotation Lag Sign
- Jobe Test
- Ludington's Test
- Neer Test
- Painful Arc Sign
- Pronated Load Test
- Resisted Supination External Rotation Test
- Speed's Test
- Posterior Apprehension
- Sulcus Sign
- Thoracic Outlet Tests >
- Yergason's Test
- Elbow >
- Wrist/Hand >
- Hip >
- Knee >
- Foot/Ankle >
-
Cervical Spine
>
Dial Test (Tibial Rotation Test)
Purpose: To assess for rotary instability in the knee.
Test Position: Prone.
Performing the Test: The tested knee should be placed in 30 degrees of flexion. The examiner then passively rotates the tibia medially and laterally (on the femur). Compare to the opposite extremity and to the opposite motion on the same leg.
Diagnostic Accuracy: Unknown.
Importance of Test: This test is used to recreate posterolateral instability in the knee. The position of 30 degrees flexion puts many of the rotation restricting structures on slack to allow some rotation. Should asymmetry be observed during the test, consider using other tests to determine the involved structure.
Note: these tests should only be used by properly trained health care practitioners
Test Position: Prone.
Performing the Test: The tested knee should be placed in 30 degrees of flexion. The examiner then passively rotates the tibia medially and laterally (on the femur). Compare to the opposite extremity and to the opposite motion on the same leg.
Diagnostic Accuracy: Unknown.
Importance of Test: This test is used to recreate posterolateral instability in the knee. The position of 30 degrees flexion puts many of the rotation restricting structures on slack to allow some rotation. Should asymmetry be observed during the test, consider using other tests to determine the involved structure.
Note: these tests should only be used by properly trained health care practitioners
Copyright © The Student Physical Therapist LLC 2022