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FADIR Test
Aka: FADIR Test, FADDIR Test
- See Also
- Hip Exam
- Hip Impingement (Femoroacetabular Impingement)
- Background: FADIR Mnemonic (or FADDIR)
- Flexion
- ADDuction
- Internal Rotation
- Indications
- Anterolateral Hip Pain suggestive of Hip Impingement (Femoroacetabular Impingement)
- Technique: Flexion, ADduction and Internal Rotation (F-Ad-Ir)
- Patient supine
- Examiner raises one leg with hip flexed to 90 degrees and knee flexed to 90 degrees
- Examiner adducts and internally rotates the hip (foot and ankle rotated away from midline)
- Images

- Interpretation
- Positive if maneuver induces pain
- Causes of positive test
- Hip Impingement (femoral acetabular impingement)
- Hip Labral Tear
- Hip loose bodies
- Hip chondral lesion
- Efficacy
- Poor Test Specificity
- Test Sensitivity 90% for Hip Labral Tear or Hip Impingement
- References
- Braly (2006) Clin Sports Med 199-210 [PubMed]
- Martin (2008) Arthroscopy 24(9): 1013-8 [PubMed]
- Wilson (2014) Am Fam Physician 90(1): 27-34 [PubMed]