What is Laguerre Test?
Laguerre test or laguerre’s test or laguerre orthopedic test help in differentiating hip pain from sacroiliac pain.
Procedure of Performing Laguerre Test
Position of the Patient – The patient lies in the supine lying position.
Examiner’s Role
- The examiner passively bends or flexes the patient’s tested side hip and knee joint into 90 degrees of flexion.
- Then the examiner passively abducts the tested side hip joint and places that hip joint in the extreme external rotation.
Test Results of the Laguerre Test
This maneuver is designed to move the femoral head into the anterior part of the joint capsule of the hip. Hip pain or pain within the hip indicates
- Hip dysplasia, or
- Degenerative joint disease (hip osteoarthritis), or
- Contracture of the iliopsoas muscle.
Pain felt in the posterior part of the sacroiliac joint indicates an underlying disease process at that site.
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Sacroiliac Joint Tests
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Gaenslen’s Test – To detect any pathology or dysfunction around the sacroiliac joint.
Standing Flexion Test/ Standing Forward Flexion Test – To assess sacroiliac joint dysfunction.
Cervical Tests
Cervical Flexion Compression Test – To identify if there is a Herniated disk in the Cervical spine.
Jackson Compression Test – To Detect Cervical Radiculopathy (Cervical Nerve Root Compression).
Spurling Test – For Diagnosing Cervical Radiculopathy.
Cervical Distraction Test – To detect the presence of cervical radiculopathy.
Soto Hall Test – For Detecting Problem in Patient’s Neck (Cervical Spine).
Some other Tests
Pelvic Ligament Tests – used for the assessment of the pelvic ligaments.
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Noble Compression Test/Noble Test – To assess pain coming from iliotibial band syndrome.
Neer Test – For detecting the presence of shoulder impingement syndrome.
Resources
Clinical Tests for the Musculoskeletal System: Examinations-Signs-Phenomena by K. Buckup