Execution:
- The patient is in sitting position and the patient’s position is stabilized by the examiner with one hand on the patient’s shoulder
- The examiner is standing behind the patient and applies light pressure to the patient’s vertex
- With constant pressure the examiner rotates the patient’s head 180° towards the patient’s affected side from maximal neck flexion, followed by lateral flexion to maximal extension
Positive Outcome: The patient’s radicular pain or tingling is reproduced or aggravated in the ipsilateral shoulder or upper extremity
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Study |
Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ | LR- |
| Park et al. (2019) | Inter-rater к> 0.8 | 85.1 | 86.8 | 6.45 |
0.17 |
| Comment: Although the accuracy of the NTT looks promising, the study contained methodological shortcomings and the test has not been validated yet by other studies | |||||
