Execution:
- The patient’s forearm is fixed and the wrist is placed in dorsiflexion
- The examiner applies axial load to the wrist
- The wrist is rotated and moved into ulnar deviation
Positive Outcome: Pain and crepitations are reproduced
| Study | Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ | LR- |
| Schmaus et al. (2016) |
NA |
90 | 20 | 0.54 |
0.65 |
| Comment: Due to the poor specificity of this test, the diagnostic value of this test is rather weak. Interestingly, MRI imaging did not perform better and reached a comparably high level of sensitivity and poor specificity in this study | |||||
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