The Elbow

Technique

• The elbow is in extension and the the wrist is in neutral position between extension and flexion.
• The forerearm is stabilised by the contralateral arm of the examiner.
• Resistance is given at the ulnar side of the hand.

Indication
To differentiate between a lesion of the radial extensors or flexors of the wrist and the ulnar extensors or flexors.
This test is always painful in a tenniselbow - lesion of the extensor carpi radialis longus or brevis.