Execution:
- Patient is in sitting position
- The patient’s shoulder is flexed to 90° and passively brought into maximal horizontal adduction by the examiner
Positive Outcome: Pain on top of the shoulder in the area of the AC joint
|
Study |
Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ |
LR- |
| Chronopoulos et al. (2004) |
NA |
77 | 79 | 3.66 |
0.29 |
| Krill et al. (2018) |
NA |
64 | 26 | 0.86 |
1.39 |
| Micheroli et al. (2015) |
Inter-rater ĸ=0.4 |
38 | 96 | 9.5 |
0.63 |
| Cadogan et al. (2013) |
NA |
64 | 26 | 0.86 |
1.39 |
| Comment: The authors do not recommend this test as a stand-alone test, but recommend it as a part of a test cluster | |||||
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