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OBJECTIVE: To assess the specificity of the femoral slump test (FST) when
assessing experimentally induced anterior knee pain. DESIGN: Cross-sectional,
exploratory study. SETTING: Research laboratory. PARTICIPANTS: Asymptomatic
subjects (N=12; 6 men; 6 women) for the study. An experimental pain model was
used to simulate anterior knee pain by injecting .25 mL of hypertonic saline
solution (5% NaCl) into the medial infrapatellar fat pad. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: The changes in pain intensity and diameter
after applying the structure differential maneuver (neck flexion/extension)
during the FST were recorded and analyzed. RESULTS: Results revealed that the
structure differential maneuver of the FST did not alter the pain intensity or
diameter in 9 (neck extension) and 10 (neck flexion) out of 12 subjects, which
meant that the FST provided appropriate testing responses in 75% to 83% cases
when the anterior knee pain did not originate in neural tissues. CONCLUSIONS: The
FST had a specificity of more than .75 when detecting nerve mechanosensitivity
problems of anterior knee pain.
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