Execution:
- The patient is standing, flexes his elbow to 90°, fully supinates the forearm and makes a fist
- The examiner covers the patient’s fist with his contralateral hand and asks the patient to rapidly bring their hand up and across the body towards their chin like in an uppercut punch in boxing while the examiner gives resistance
Positive Outcome: Pain or a painful pop over the anterior shoulder
|
Study |
Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ |
LR- |
| Kibler et al. (2009): Biceps Injury |
NA |
73 | 78 | 3.38 |
0.34 |
| Kibler et al. (2009): Labral Injury |
NA |
22 | 56 | 0.49 |
1.40 |
| Cardoso et al. (2019) |
NA |
90 | 38 | 1.44 |
0.26 |
| Comment: The authors mention that the Upper Cut Maneuver is the most accurate test to detect lesions of the proximal long biceps tendon | |||||
