The part you can't learn from a textbook paragraph.
Nobody passes a practical by reading. Each test opens into positioning, what your hands do, and what counts as positive.
- Position
- Supine, knee flexed to about 20 to 30 degrees.
- Action
- Stabilize the distal femur with one hand, grasp the proximal tibia with the other, and glide the tibia anteriorly.
- Positive
- Soft or absent end feel with increased anterior translation of the tibia.
- Note
- Considered the most sensitive ligamentous test for an ACL tear, and generally more reliable than the anterior drawer.
- Position
- Supine, foot of the tested side placed on the opposite knee — flexion, abduction, external rotation.
- Action
- Stabilize the opposite ASIS and apply gentle downward pressure to the flexed knee.
- Positive
- Hip or groin pain suggests hip pathology. Posterior pain suggests the sacroiliac joint.
- Note
- Useful as a screen, but not specific. Interpret it alongside the rest of your SI cluster.
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The full set covers spine, upper quarter, lower quarter, and neuro screens, and remembers which ones you've been through.