Execution:
- Patient is in supine lying position
- The examiner passively flexes the patient’s leg at the hip (with a fully extended knee) on the side where they do not experience radicular symptoms until symptoms occur in the other leg that is left on the table
Positive Outcome: Patient reports shooting pain down the other leg that is left on the table
| Study | Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ | LR- |
| Van der Windt et al. (2010) | NA | 28 | 90 | 2.8 | 0.8 |
| Comment: The Crossed SLR can be used to make the hypotheses of a lumbar disc herniation with root compression at L4-S1 more likely | |||||
