Opening book details…
Can I read Extending the Straight Leg Raise Test for Improved Clinical Evaluation of Sciatica: Validity and Diagnostic Performance with Reference to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging on EtoBox?
Extending the Straight Leg Raise Test for Improved Clinical Evaluation of Sciatica: Validity and Diagnostic Performance with Reference to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Janne Pesonen; Michael Shacklock; Juha-Sampo Suomalainen; Lauri Karttunen; Jussi Mäki; Olavi Airaksinen; Marinko Rade is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Extending the Straight Leg Raise Test for Improved Clinical Evaluation of Sciatica: Validity and Diagnostic Performance with Reference to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging about?
## Background: The straight leg raise test (slr) is one of the most utilized and studied physical tests in patients with low back pain (lbp) for the detection of lumbar disc herniation (ldh), showing high sensitivity and heterogeneous or low specificity. the high incidence of asymptomatic 'pathologic' findings in the magnetic resonance imaging (mri) scans may cause verification bias to these results. we studied an extended slr (eslr) by adding location-specific structural differentiation movements (hip internal rotation or ankle dorsiflexion) to the traditional slr for it to better differentiate neural symptoms from musculoskeletal. previously, the eslr has shown almost perfect interrater reliability between examiners and ability to detect sciatic patients. in this study, we investigated whether a 'positive' eslr finding is associated with pathology seen on mri. ## Methods: Forty subjects comprised the study population, 20 in sciatic group and 20 in control group. the eslr was performed 'blinded' to the subjects. after the eslr, each subject's lumbar mri was evaluated. the mris were analyzed independently by 2 senior radiologists and a spine specialist clinician. the eslr and mri r
Who reads Extending the Straight Leg Raise Test for Improved Clinical Evaluation of Sciatica: Validity and Diagnostic Performance with Reference to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Janne Pesonen; Michael Shacklock; Juha-Sampo Suomalainen; Lauri Karttunen; Jussi Mäki; Olavi Airaksinen; Marinko Rade
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)