Hawkins Kennedy Test
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Other Names
- Kennedy Impingement Test
- Hawkin's Test
- Hawkins-Kennedy impingement test
- Kennedy Test
- Hawkins Test
- Kennedy-Hawkins Test
- Hawkins Sign
- Impingement Test (Hawkins Variant)
Purpose
- Evaluate for Subacromial Impingement Syndrome by compressing the subacromial space
Description
- Place the patient's arm shoulder in 90 degrees of shoulder flexion
- The elbow flexed to 90 degrees and then internally rotates the arm.
- Positive Test
- The patient experiences pain
Pathology
Evidence
Subacromial Impingement Syndrome
- Park et al[4], Mustafa et al[5]
- Sensitivity: 62%-92%
- Specificity: 25%-100%
- Positive LR: 1.23
- Negative LR: 0.32
- Nakagawa et al[6]
- Sensitivity: 500%
- Specificity: 67%
- Accuracy: 59%
- PPV: 55%
- NPV: 63%
Rotator Cuff Disease
- Hermans et al [7]
- Sensitivity: 76
- Specificity: 48
- LR+: 1.5
- LR-: 0.51
See Also
References
- ↑ Manske, Robert, and Todd Ellenbecker. "Current concepts in shoulder examination of the overhead athlete." International journal of sports physical therapy 8.5 (2013): 554.
- ↑ Almoallim, Hani, et al. "Approach to Musculoskeletal Examination." Skills in Rheumatology (2021): 17-65.
- ↑ Phillips, Nick. "Tests for diagnosing subacromial impingement syndrome and rotator cuff disease." Shoulder & elbow 6.3 (2014): 215-221.
- ↑ Park, H.B., Yokota, A., Gill, H.S., EI RG, McFarland, E.G. (2005). Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests for the different degrees of subacromial impingement syndrome. J Bone Joint Surg Am, 87(7), 1446-1455.
- ↑ Mustafa et al. Diagnostic values of clinical diagnostic tests in subacromial impingement syndrome. Ann Rheum Dis 2000;59;44-47
- ↑ Nakagawa, Shigeto, et al. "Forced shoulder abduction and elbow flexion test: a new simple clinical test to detect superior labral injury in the throwing shoulder." Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery 21.11 (2005): 1290-1295.
- ↑ Hermans, Job, et al. "Does this patient with shoulder pain have rotator cuff disease?: The Rational Clinical Examination systematic review." Jama 310.8 (2013): 837-847.
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