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Resisted Single Adductor Test

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Other Names

The resisted single adductor test[1]
Demonstration of the single adductor test[2]
  • Resisted Single Adductor Test
  • Single Adductor Test

Purpose

  • To evaluate the cause of a patients groin pain

Description

  • The patient is in the supine position
  • Examiner’s hand on patient’s medial knee
    • Optional: The patient's hip can be flexed to 30° with knee extended
  • Patient adducts knee against resistance
  • Positive test
    • Pain in anterior groin
    • Pubic pain at origin of adductor longus muscle at pubic crest

Pathology

Evidence

  • Verrall et al[2]
    • Sensitivity: 30-32%
    • Specificity: 88-91%
    • PPV: 67-78%
    • NPV: 35-46%

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Image courtesy of BJSM
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verrall, Geoffrey M., et al. "Description of pain provocation tests used for the diagnosis of sports‐related chronic groin pain: relationship of tests to defined clinical (pain and tenderness) and MRI (pubic bone marrow oedema) criteria." Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports 15.1 (2005): 36-42.
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John Kiel on 10 April 2022 08:08:27
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