Execution:
- Patient is in sitting position
- The patient’s shoulder on the affected side is brought into external rotation, slight abduction and a few degrees of extension
- The examiner palpates the patient’s radial pulse
- The patient is asked to extend the neck and to rotate towards the affected side
- At last, the patient is asked to breath in and hold the breath shortly
Positive Outcome: Reproduction of patient’s familiar symptoms or abolition of the radial pulse
| Study | Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ | LR- |
| Gillard et al. (2001) | NA | 79 | 76 | 3.29 | 0.28 |
| Comment: The test is designed to stress the brachial plexus in the posterior scalene port | |||||
