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Wrights Test
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Other Names
- Hyperabduction Test
- Wright’s Test
- Wright's Hyperabduction Test
Purpose
- Evaluate the thoracic outlet as a cause of the patients symptoms
Description
- The patient is seated
- Examiner passively brings affected limb into abduction and external rotation to 90°
- Elbow flexed no more than 45°, arm held in this position for 1 minute
- The patient can be asked to take a deep breath
- Monitor radial pulse and patients symptoms
- Now the examiner repeats the same test with the arm in hyperabduction over the patients head
- Positive Test
- Decrease in radial pulse
- Reproduction of patients symptoms
Pathology
Evidence
- Unknown
See Also
References