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Gaenslen's test
Indications:
- evaluation of sacroiliitis
Procedure:
- in the supine position, the patient holds one knee & hip flexed towards the chest, the other leg hangs over the edge of the examining table
- this flexes the hip joint on one side & extends it on the other
- the examiner presses down on the knee hanging over the examining table to hyperextend the hip & produce pain in the sacroiliac joint
Related
sacroiliitis
General
maneuver
References
- Internal Medicine News, April 1, 2008
- Wikipedia: Gaenslen's test
http://en.wikpedia.org/wiki/Gaenslen%27s_test
- Gaenslen FJ
Sacro-iliac athrodesis: indications, author's technic and
end-results.
JAMA 1927, 86:2031
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