The Kemp test (also known as the quadrant test and extension-rotation test) is a provocative test useful for diagnosing pain related to facet joint pathology, e.g. osteoarthritis. The client performs combined extension and rotation of the spine (used for the cervical spine or the lumbar spine).

Upper cervical flexion and lower cervical extension is assessed with cervical retraction. Upper cervical extension with lower cervical extension is assessed with cervical protraction. The cervical quadrant involves combined cervical extension with ipsilateral rotation and sidebending.

The Spurling's test (also known as Maximal Cervical Compression Test and Foraminal Compression Test) is used during a musculoskeletal assessment of the cervical spine when looking for cervical nerve root compression causing Cervical Radiculopathy.

2023年8月8日 · The Spurling test is one of the best-known and most widely used provocative tests for the assessment of the cervical spine. The Spurling test was originally named as Spurling’s neck compression test by the neurosurgeons Roy Glen Spurling and …

2024年8月10日 · It is a provocative test designed to exacerbate encroachment of a cervical nerve root at the neural foramen by extension and rotation of the neck toward the involved side.

Procedure: The patient is seated. The examiner stands behind the patient and passively moves the cervical spine into flexion (tilts the patient’s head forward). Then axial compression is applied to the top of the head. Assessment: This is a good test of the integrity of the intervertebral disk.

2019年7月23日 · Spurling and Scoville first described the Spurling neck compression test, also known as the foraminal compression test, neck compression test, or quadrant test, in 1944 as “the most important diagnostic test and one that is almost pathognomonic of a …

2021年11月8日 · The Kemp test (also known as the quadrant test and extension-rotation test) is a provocative test on clinical examination that has been described as being useful for diagnosing pain related to facet joint pathology, e.g. arthropathy but is of limited diagnostic accuracy 1. The patient performs combined extension and rotation of the spine.

2024年6月21日 · It’s also called cervical quadrant test. How do you perform the Vertebral Artery Test? This test requires certain preliminary findings as it is not entirely without risk.

One clinical test that has been described in the literature as being potentially useful in diagnosing facet joint pain (or “facet syndrome”) is the Kemp’s test 14 (also referred to as the Quadrant test 15 and Extension-Rotation test 9).