Open AccessMcMurray’s Test and Joint Line Tenderness for Medial Meniscus Tear: Are They Accurate?
Author(s) -
Yogendra Gupta,
Deepak Prakash Mahara,
Arjun Lamichhane
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
ethiopian journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2413-7170
pISSN - 1029-1857
DOI - 10.4314/ejhs.v26i6.10
Subject(s) - tenderness , medicine , arthroscopy , meniscus , medial meniscus , predictive value , tears , predictive value of tests , surgery , physical therapy , osteoarthritis , pathology , physics , alternative medicine , incidence (geometry) , optics
Meniscus tears are the most common injury of the knee. The McMurray's test and Joint line tenderness for diagnosing meniscus tear have been widely tested, but results reported by different authors vary. The wide variations reported have an impact on clinical decision concerning whether to go for other diagnostic tests before going for diagnostic arthroscopy, which is considered as the gold standard.The purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic value of Joint line tenderness and McMurray's test, as clinical signs, to diagnose underlying medial meniscus tears.