Posts in Musculoskeletal & Pain Management

The Yocum test is one of the fastest ways to load the subacromial space and hear...

Front-of-hip tightness is easy to feel and hard to pin down. You stretch, it eas...

Six weeks after an ankle sprain, the patient is still limping. The X-ray came ba...

The Coleman block test is one of orthopedics’ most practical bedside tools...

Lift a patient’s pain-free leg, and the sciatica fires down the other side...

The Wright test, also called the hyperabduction test, moves the patient’s ...

Two clinicians test the same fingertip an hour apart and record thresholds 4 mm ...

A wrist that still aches a month after a fall is often a scaphoid fracture nobod...

Ask a patient to reach for something on a high shelf and you learn more about th...

A patient comes in with anterior knee pain that flares on stairs and settles at ...

The Thompson test is a 60-second bedside check for a complete Achilles tendon ru...

Systematic reviews of population studies put the annual prevalence of neck pain ...