Vastus Medialis Coordination Test

Other Names

Demonstration of the Vastus Medialis Coordination Test

• Vastus Medialis Coordination Test

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Purpose

• Evaluate cause of knee pain

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Description

• The patient is supine
• Examiner places the fist under the subject’s knee
• The patient is asked to extend the knee slowly without pressing down or lifting away from the examiner’s fist
• The patient is instructed to achieve full extension.
• Positive test
  • Lack of coordinated full extension is apparent
  • When the patient either has difficulty smoothly achieving extension or uses the extensors or flexors of the hip to accomplish extension

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Pathology

• Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
• Dysfunction of Vastus Medialis Obliquus

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Evidence

• Unknown

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See Also

• Physical Exam Knee
• Knee Pain (Main)

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