Execution:
- Patient is standing
- The patient extends the elbow and fully supinates the forearm
- Version 1: Patient flexes his shoulder from 0 to 60° against resistance by the examiner
- Version 2/most common: Patient brings his shoulder to 90° and resists downward pressure by the examiner
Positive Outcome: Pain provoked in the bicipital groove where the tendon of the long head of the biceps enters the joint capsule
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Study |
Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ |
LR- |
| NA | 20 | 78 | 1.03 | 0.87 | |
| NA | 75 | 45 | 1.35 |
0.56 |
|
| Gismervik et al. (2017) | NA | 20 | 88 | 1.67 |
0.91 |
| Ebinger et al. (2008) | NA | 60 | 38 | 0.97 |
1.05 |
| Cardoso et al. (2019) | NA | 61 | 71 | 2.09 |
0.55 |
| Cook et al. (2012) | NA | 50 | 54 | 1.1 |
0.93 |
| Somerville et al. (2017) | NA | 27.6 | 21 | 0.95 |
1.02 |
| Comment: The Speeds test also tests for paratenonitis or tendinosis of the long biceps tendon, but performs equally weak for both the detection of SLAP lesions and biceps pathology | |||||
