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Elbow & Forearm Tests
Upper Extremity Eval
13
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Undergraduate 3
04/25/2011

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Term
Valgus Stress Test (+)/implications:
Definition

Increased pain or laxity

 

Sprain of UCL, expecially anterior bundle

Term
Varus Stress Test (+)/implications:
Definition

Increased laxity, pain

 

Sprain of the RCL

Term
Milkin Sign Test (+)/implications:
Definition

Pain over medial joint line

 

UCL injury

Term
Posterior Rotary Instability Test (+)/implications:
Definition

Elbow subluxes as it extends, then relocates when flexed

 

Chronic instability of the elbow

Term
Lateral Epicondyle Test (+)/implications:
Definition

Pain at lateral epicondyle

 

Lateral Epicondylitis

Term
Tennis Elbow Test (+)/implications:
Definition

-Pain at wrist extensor/supinator attachment on lateral epicondyle

 

-Lateral Epicondylitis

Term
Medial Epicondylitis Test (+)/implications:
Definition

-Pain at lateral Epicondyle

 

-Late

Term
Little Leaguers Elbow Test (+)/implications:
Definition

-Pain at wrist flexor/pronator attachment on medial epicondyle

 

-Medial Epicondylitis

Term
Tinel's Sign (+)/implications:
Definition

Paresthesia or pain in distal distribution of ulnar nerve

 

-Ulnar nerve pathology

Term
"Ok" Sign Test (+)/implications:
Definition

-Patients inability to hold the pinch

 

Median nerve pathology, specifically to the anterior interosseous nerve

Term
Elbow Flexion Test (+)/implications:
Definition

Tingling in ulnar nerve at forearm

 

-Ulnar Nerve pathology

Term
Pronator Teres Test (+)/implications:
Definition

Tingiling in median nerve pathology

 

Median Nerve pathology

Term
Wartenburg's Sign (+)/implications:
Definition

Inability to adduct the 5th digit

 

-Ulnar neuritis

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