biceps tendon, bicipital tendonitis, glenohumeral, ortho, pain, shoulder, special test, tendon pathology, tendon rupture

Purpose

A test used to identify biceps pathology.

Technique

The patient is positioned in sitting.

Clinician brings the arm being tested into 90° of elbow flexion.

Clinician’s caudal hand is positioned on the distal end of the patient’s forearm and his cranial hand palpates the bicipital groove.

Clinician asks the patient to resist supination and ER and uses his caudal hand to provide resistance to the movements

Positive

Pain or subluxation of the biceps tendon.

Interpretation

Pain indicates bicipital pathology and subluxation of the biceps tendon indicates rupture of the biceps tendon.

References

1. Dutton, M. (2008). Orthopaedic: Examination, evaluation, and intervention (2nd ed.). New York, NY: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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