Why do we use too many tests in musculoskeletal practice?

Sometimes I really feel like an idiot 😲

During courses I often see colleagues performing dozens of functional tests,

adding mysterious interpretations to it.

Am I too unexperienced to understand and "feel" all of this?
You know this feeling too?

What's the relevance of this test abundance???

In a textbook on orthopaedic medicine the authors described a series of 97!! tests for the lumbar spine.

First of all, many of those so called tests are completely irrelevant and furthermore,
how do I have to interpret the test results? This is a perfect example of “artificial hypercomplication”.

My advice is to focus on to the point relevant test procedures , on repeated testing and objective clinical reasoning.

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The Masterclass also covers new and exclusive films

A valid diagnosis starts with a good functional examination!

All basic and accessory functional examination procedures of the shoulder, the elbow, the wrist, the hip, the knee, the foot, the SI-joint, th lumbar, cervical and thoracic spine are illustrated in very practical films

How to interpret the outcome of your functional examination and to translate science into clinical practice? 56 new films exclusively on this platform!

You now have a series of positive and negative tests. The problem is, how to interpret this in a correct way and how to reach a relevant diagnosis? How to translate science into clinical practice, how to interpret a number of scientific references...The specific processes to follow are illustrated in a completely NEW film series.

A quick guide towards quick diagnostic solutions...

In a series of short "to the point" films you will discover an answer to a series of frequent diagnostic challenges.

Make life easier and use a practical standardized protocol!

We provide for each area (shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, foot, lumbar-cervical-thoracic spine, a ready and easy to use standardized functional assessment form. Downloadable in pdf.

The ideal palpation guidelines...

An efficient palpation technique is the stepstone to more efficient use of specific local treatment techniques such as deep transverse massage or needling techniques. Thanks to those films, you won't miss any structure.

How to specify and to optimize injection techniques...

All need you need to know about the pre-injection palpation technique, which needle, syrynge to use, specific indication and practical procedure of a series of injection and infiltration techniques in the upper and the lower extremity and the spine.

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All practical details on how to perform manipulation techniques in the extremities and the spine.

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Specific content?

No boring piling up of scientific info and statistics, but only practical clinical knowledge which you need in your daily clinical practice.

About > 35 hours of practical film instruction (most films takes about 5'-35', designed for efficient learning), covering:

Specific history of the patient
Inspection
Functional examination
Palpation
Diagnosis and differential diagnosis
Treatment strategy
Analysis assesment form
+ regular updates and all webinar recordings

Following treatment techiques are extensively described

Peripheral and spinal manipulation
Palpation / Deep transverse friction massage techniques
Injection and infiltration techniques