Special Tests
Use Special Tests to guide your physical examination within the SOAP note.
Special Tests can be added to a Template, Profile, and/or SOAP note directly from the Add Content Drawer. To learn more about the Content Drawer, click here.
The following tests have been added to SOAP notes for each Profile.
To download a list of all the special tests, body parts, patient positions, test types, exceptions, and ligament grading scales, click here.
Special Tests: Standing
- Chvostek's Sign
- Adson's Maneuver
- Allen's Test
- Apley's Scratch Test
- Empty Can Test
- Lift-Off Test
- Feagin's Test
- Hawkins/Kennedy Impingement Test
- Ludington's Sign
- Military Brace Position (Eden's Test)
- Neer's Impingement Test
- O'Brien's Test (Active Compression Test)
- Roos Test (Elevated Arm Stress Test)
- Shoulder Abduction Test (Drop Arm Test)
- Speed's Test
- Milking Sign (Moving Valgus Stress Test)
- Elbow Flexion Test
- Golfer's Elbow Test
- Hyperextension Test
- Pinch Grip Test
- Squeeze Test (Compression Test) - Forearm
- Squeeze Test (Compression Test) - Hand
- Finkelstein's Test
- Froment's Sign
- Long Finger Flexion Test
- Thumb Carpometacarpal (CMC) Grind Test
- Murphy's Sign
- Phalen's Test
- Reverse Phalen's Test
- Inspiration/Expiration Breathing Test
- Stoop Test
- Kemp's Test
- Single-Leg Hyperextension Test
- Trendelenburg's Test
- Gillet's Test (Sacral Fixation Test)
- Q-Angle Test
- Thessaly's Test
Special Tests: Side-Lying
Note: Tests are ordered from head-to-toe and proximal to distal, anterior to posterior.
- Femoral Nerve Traction Test
- Gaenslen's Test
- Piriformis Test
- Ober's Test
- Talar Tilt Test - Eversion (Deltoid Ligament Stress Test)
- Talar Tilt Test - Inversion
Special Tests: Prone
Note: Tests are ordered from head-to-toe and proximal to distal, anterior to posterior.
- Craig's Test
- Ely's Test (Duncan-Ely Test)
- Prone Press Up Test
- Sphinx Test
- Yeoman's Test
- Apley's Compression Test (Apley's Grind Test)
- Apley's Distraction Test
- Thompson's Test
Special Tests: Supine
Note: Tests are ordered from head-to-toe, type of test (e.g., ligamentous, provocation, flexibility), and then proximal to distal, anterior to posterior.
- Alar Ligament Test
- Foraminal Distraction Test (Cervical Distraction Test)
- Vertebral Artery Test
- Dix-Hallpike Test (Nylen-Barany Test)
- Supine Roll Test (Pagnini-McClure Maneuver)
- Anterior Drawer Test - Shoulder
- Apprehension Test - Anterior
- Jobe's Relocation Test
- Apprehension Test - Posterior
- Clunk Test
- Grind Test
- Pectoralis Major Contracture Test
- Posterior Drawer Test - Shoulder
- Anterior/Posterior Rib Compression Test
- Lateral Rib Compression Test
- Kernig/Brudzinski Signs
- Bilateral Straight-Leg Raise Test
- Unilateral Straight-Leg Raise Test (Lasègue’s Test)
- Bragard's Sign - Spine
- 90-90 Straight-Leg Raise Test
- Well Straight-Leg Raise Test (Cross-Over Sign)
- Thomas Test
- Bowstring Test (Cram Test)
- Hoover's Test
- FABER Test (Patrick's Test)
- Sacroiliac (SI) Joint Distraction Test (Gapping Test, Sacroiliac Stretch Test, Squish Test)
- Femoral Shear Test (Thigh Thrust Test, SI Joint Pain Provocation Test)
- Sacroiliac (SI) Joint Compression Test
- Long-Sitting Test
- McCarthy's Test
- Hip Scouring Test (Quadrant Test)
- Nélaton's Line Test
- Leg-Length Discrepancy Test
- Anterior Drawer Test - Knee
- Anterior Lachman's Test
- Ballotable Patella Test (Patella Tap Test)
- Patellar Sweep Test (Wipe Test, Brush Test, Bulge Test, Stroke Test)
- Bounce Home Test
- Braggard's Sign - Knee
- Hughston's Posteromedial Drawer Test
- Hughston's Posterolateral Drawer Test
- External Rotation Recurvatum Test
- Pivot Shift Test
- Reverse Pivot Shift Test (Jakob's Test)
- Slocum's Test with Internal Tibial Rotation
- Slocum's Test with External Tibial Rotation
- Posterior Sag Sign (Gravity Drawer Test)
- Godfrey's 90/90 Test
- Hughston's Plica Test
- McMurray's Test (McMurray's Click)
- Medial-Lateral Grind Test
- Patellar Grind Test (Clarke's Sign)
- Noble's Compression Test
- Patella Tendon/Patella Ligament Length Test
- Patellar Apprehension Test
- Posterior Drawer Test - Knee
- Posterior Lachman's Test
- Q-Angle Test
- Rectus Femoris Contracture Test (Kendall's Test)
- Steinman's Tenderness Displacement Test
- Valgus Stress Test - Knee
- Varus Stress Test - Knee
- Percussion Test (Tap Test) - Ankle/Foot
- Compression Test (Squeeze Test) - Lower Leg
- Homan's Sign
- Tinel's Sign - Ankle/Foot
Special Tests: Sitting
Note: Tests are ordered from head-to-toe, type of test (e.g., ligamentous, provocation, flexibility), and then proximal to distal, anterior to posterior.
- Chvostek's Sign
- Empty Can Test
- Loading Test
- Spurling's Test (Cervical Compression Test)
- Reverse Spurling's Test (Cervical Distraction Test)
- Sharp-Purser Test
- Swallowing Test
- Acromioclavicular (AC) Joint Compression Test (Shear Test)
- Acromioclavicular (AC) Joint Distraction Test
- Piano Key Sign
- Sternoclavicular (SC) Joint Stress Test
- Hawkins/Kennedy Impingement Test
- Cross-Over Impingement Test
- Neer's Impingement Test
- Apley's Scratch Test
- Brachial Plexus Stretch Test
- Sulcus Sign
- O'Brien's Test (Active Compression Test)
- Crank Test
- Lift-Off Test
- Speed's Test
- Yergason's Test
- Ludington's Sign
- Shoulder Abduction Test (Drop Arm Test)
- Load and Shift Test
- Adson's Maneuver
- Allen's Test
- Roos Test (Elevated Arm Stress Test)
- Cozen's Test (Resistive Tennis Elbow Test)
- Passive Tennis Elbow Test
- Valgus Stress Test - Elbow
- Varus Stress Test - Elbow
- Milking Sign (Moving Valgus Stress Test)
- Elbow Flexion Test
- Golfer's Elbow Test
- Hyperextension Test
- Tinel's Sign - Elbow
- Pinch Grip Test
- Froment's Sign
- Bunnel Littler Test
- Finkelstein's Test
- Long Finger Flexion Test
- Thumb Carpometacarpal (CMC) Grind Test
- Murphy's Sign
- Phalen's Test
- Reverse Phalen's Test
- Squeeze Test (Compression Test) - Forearm
- Squeeze Test (Compression Test) - Hand
- Tinel's Sign - Wrist/Hand
- Valgus Stress Test - Wrist
- Varus Stress Test - Wrist
- Watson's Test
- Wrinkle Test (Shrivel Test)
- Inspiration/Expiration Breathing Test
- Kemp's Test
- Slump Test (Root Test)
- Valsalva's Maneuver
- Tripod Test
- J Sign
- Anterior Drawer Test - Ankle/Foot
- Feiss Line (Navicular Position Test)
- Interdigital Neuroma Test
- Kleiger's Test
- Long Bone Compression Test - Metatarsals
- Swing Test