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What test is used for an Achilles tendon tear?
Thompson Test
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What is the name of the test used for torn anterior talofibular ligament?
Anterior Drawer test (ankle)
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Name the test that helps diagnose a calcaneofibular ligament tear.
Talar tilt
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What does a Bump Test imply?
A possible advanced stress fracture.
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What test is used to look for a gross fracture or stress fracture of the fibula?
The Squeeze test
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What test can you use for a DVT (even though it is not accurate), in conjuction with other signs?
The Homen's sign
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What does the Lachman's test imply?
Damage to the ACL
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What is another name for the Lachman's test?
Anterior drawer test (knee) - tests for damage to ACL
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What does a negative alternative Lachman's test with a positive anterior drawer test imply?
A tear in the PCL
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What test can be used to look for a torn MCL?
A valgus test
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What does a positive Varus test imply?
A tear in the LCL
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This is a popping, clicking, or locking of the knee.
Positive McMurray's Click
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What does a McMurray Test look for?
A meniscal tear in the knee.
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A positive result for this test can be found with an indentation beneath the acromion process.
Sulcus test.
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Laxity in the superior glenohumeral ligament is implied with a positive ________ Test?
A sulcus test
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If you have a tear in the inferior portion of the glenoid labrium what test may be used to help diagnose?
The sulcus test
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If patient thinks that the shoulder may dislocate during this test, what direction is the glenohumeral joint being rotated?
Externally.
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What does the relocation test of the shoulder look for?
Anterior glenohumeral laxity
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A positive AC compression test implies what?
Damage to the coracoclavicular ligament and maybe the acromioclavicular ligament
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What is the other name for the "empty can" test?
Supraspinatus test
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What does the "empty can" test imply if positive?
An impinged supraspinatus and possibly an inflamed coracoacromial arch
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Where would you feel pain if positive for a Yergason's Test?
bicipital groove
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Where does a snapping/popping in the bicipital groove during a Yergason's test imply damage?
Tear or laxity of the transverse humeral ligament. If no popping but still painful, think bicipital tendonitis
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What test can look for ulnar nerve compromise?
Tinel's sign
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What problem may lead to tingling sensation along the forearm, hand, and fingers?
Ulnar nerve compromise
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What nerve is involved in carpal tunnel syndrome?
Median nerve - positive Tinel's sign for wrist
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What area of the body is examined during a Phalen's test?
The wrist - looking at median nerve compression
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What position is the patient holding their hands for a Phalen test?
Flexed wrist (think praying hands inverted)
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Why would you perform an Allen test?
To insure adequate blood supply to the hand from the radial and ulnar arteries
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If you have pain on the side opposite lateral bending with a brachial plexus stretch what is implied?
The brachial plexus is stretched
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If you have pain on the same side as the lateral bend in a brachial plexus stretch what is implied?
Pinched cervical nerve roots between the two vertebrae
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If performing a Allen test by abduction of the shoulder and get a positive result, what should you see?
The radial pulse will disappear
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What muscle is compressing the neurovascular bundle in a positive shoulder Allen test?
Pectoralis minor
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What test, if positive, could be because the patient is not trying to perform the maneuver?
Hoover test - active straight leg raise is not attempted
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If positive for pain in the SI joints, where did the examiner press?
Pressure is applied bilaterally to the ASIS
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Where does the examiner press to test for SI pain in the SI distraction test?
Pressure is applied to the anterior portion of the ilium
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