Execution:
- The patient is in sitting position
- The examiner’s hand lies on the opposite shoulder and the patient’s affected arm rests on the examiner’s forearm
- With the other hand, the examiner performs internal rotation by pushing downwards on the patient’s wrist
Positive Outcome: Provocation of your patient’s familiar pain
|
Study |
Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ | LR- |
| NA | 80 | 56 | 1.84 | 0.35 | |
| Inter-rater ĸ=0.38 | NA | NA | NA |
NA |
|
| Gismervik et al. (2017) | NA | 58 | 67 | 1.76 |
0.63 |
| Lange et al. (2017) | Inter-rater ĸ=0.47 | NA | NA | NA |
NA |
| Johansson et al. (2009) | Intra-rater ĸ=1 | NA | NA | NA |
NA |
| van Kampen et al. (2014) | NA | 52.6 | 77.4 | 2.33 |
0.61 |
| Micheroli et al. (2015) | Inter-rater ĸ=0.33 | 86 | 45 | 1.56 |
0.31 |
| Comment: The Hawkins-Kennedy test seems to have only slight inter-rater reliability and only minimally alters the post-test probability of subacromial pain syndrome and is not a good stand-alone test. | |||||
