, the discriminative power of the SLR test decreases as age increases;its results may be less conclusive in older patients.
CONCLUSION:Our results suggest limited usefulness of the SLR test in the diagnosis of L4/L5 and L5/S1 herniated disk when compared with MRI.
and only rarely does the positive or negative test result change the clinical diagnosis (as can be inferred from positive and negative LRs)
The SLR test alone cannot provide sufficient guidance to the examiner for a correct interpretation of the clinical picture of the patient,
The SLR test seems, therefore, to be useful in confirming a previous diagnosis obtained by other tools
In regard to specificity, a higher percentage of negative responses was found in patients without disk herniation.
The low sensitivity value found shows that administration of this test produces few positive responses in patients with LDH.
Francesco Capra, PT,a Carla Vanti, PT,b Roberto Donati, MD,c Silvia Tombetti,Caroline O'Reilly, PT, BScPhysio (hons),e and Paolo Pillastrini
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