When your low back pain patient stands there full of expectation, waiting to be helped, what is your approach to lumbar spine objective examination? After all, your objective assessment is the secret to getting the information you need to implement a successful treatment approach.
When starting out, we often perform every possible test. ROM in every direction, combined movements, quadrants posture, strength tests, motor control…
It can become a box-ticking exercise that is an enormous waste of time!
Not only this, but you run out of time during consults to do any meaningful treatment, leaving patients frustrated and unhappy. Even worse, sometimes patients end up worse than when they walked in!
There is a time and place for all these tests, but we need to be intelligent and efficient, only applying tests that give us the necessary information.
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