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Kemps Test

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Kemps Test
Starting and finishing position of the Kemp test[1]
Cervical Kemp's test finishing position[1]
  • Extension Quadrant Test
  • Quadrant test
  • Extension-Rotation test
  • Kemp Sign
  • Kemp's Test
  • Facet loading test
  • Lumbar Extension–Rotation Test
  • Lumbar Facet Loading Test
  • Facet Joint Stress Test
  • Lumbar Facet Compression Test
  • Extension–Rotation Test of the Lumbar Spine
  • Facet Loading Maneuver

Purpose

Description

  • The patient can either be standing or seated
  • Examiner places one hand on the patients spine, the other on the contralateral shoulder
  • Patient leans away from examiner then is twisted into forward flexion and eventually brought back into lateral flexion and extension
  • Positive test is pain in the lower back
    • Same side suggests facet etiology
    • Radiating pain suggests nerve root etiology
    • Pain on the contralateral side suggests lumbar strain

Pathology

Evidence

Zygapophyseal Joint Pain

  • Stuber et al systematic review[1]
    • Poorly characterized in the literature
    • NPV 57-60%

See Also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Stuber, Kent, et al. "The diagnostic accuracy of the Kemp’s test: a systematic review." The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association 58.3 (2014): 258.
Created by:
John Kiel on 29 July 2019 17:06:49
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