Palpate the psoas and confirm the palpation with this simple test. A new article uses an evidence-based approach to bust a recent manual therapy myth! There is an easy and effective method for testing ...

Examination of ticklish patients may be difficult. Strategies for examining ticklish patients have been reported in the fields of pediatric neurology (i.e., using the Chaddock maneuver in preference ...

Background—Palpation is an important clinical test for jumper's knee. Methods—In 326 junior symptomatic and asymptomatic athletes' tendons, palpation was performed by a single examiner before ...

Bob & Brad discuss patellar and quadriceps tendonitis and tendinopathy in the knee. Tendonitis is inflammation of the tendon. Tendinopathy is a degeneration of the collagen protein that forms the ...

THE purpose of this paper is to reawaken interest in a long neglected simple tool in physical diagnosis and to provide graphic evidence of the phenomenon involved. When the examiner palpates the ...