Wrist/Hand/Fingers Special Tests
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| Positive (+) Test |
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| Carpal Glides |
instability |
increased laxity/pain |
| Glides/Stress (Fingers) |
instability |
increased laxity/pain |
| Allen's |
vascular occlusion of the radial and ulnar arteries |
delayed color into hand on one or both sides |
| Finkelstein's |
DeQuervain's Disease (tenosynovitis of extensor pollicis brevis, abductor pollicis longus) |
pain with PROM into ulnar deviation |
| Tinel's Sign |
nerve pathologies - ulnar, radial or median |
tingling, pain, parasthesia into nerve distribution (ulnar-Tunnel of Guyon, median-carpal tunnel, radial-distal to radial styloid process) |
| Phalen's |
carpal tunnel syndrome |
tingling, pain, parasthesia into median nerve distribution |
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