Extending the straight leg raise test for improved clinical evaluation of sciatica: validity and diagnostic performance with reference to the magnetic resonance imaging

BACKGROUND: The straight leg raise test (SLR) is one of the most utilized and studied physical tests in patients with low back pain (LBP) for the detection of lumbar disc herniation (LDH), showing high sensitivity and heterogeneous or low specificity. The high incidence of asymptomatic ‘pathologic’...

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Autores principales: Pesonen, Janne, Shacklock, Michael, Suomalainen, Juha-Sampo, Karttunen, Lauri, Mäki, Jussi, Airaksinen, Olavi, Rade, Marinko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8456642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34548049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-021-04649-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8456642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34548049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-021-04649-z

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