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Anterior Slide Test
Aka: Anterior Slide Test
- Indications
- Evaluation of SLAP Lesion in Shoulder
- Technique
- Patient places both hands on hips
- Examiner stabilizes affected ShoulderScapula and clavicle with one hand
- Examiner uses other hand to push anterior and superior at the elbow
- This forces the Shoulder upward and will reproduce symptoms if a labral tear exists
- Interpretation
- Positive Test suggests SLAP Lesion
- Reproduces pain or
- Click or pop localized to anterior Shoulder under examiner's hand at acromion
- References
- Walsworth (2008) Am J Sports Med 36(1): 162-8
