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Cozen's Test

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Purpose1
Description1,2
Sensitivity, Specificity
Reliability
Likelihood Ratio +/-
Cozen’s Test
Test for lateral epicondylitis
The examiner stabilizes the patients elbow with his/her thumb while palpating the lateral epicondyle. The patient is then asked to actively make a fist, pronate his or her forearm as well as radially deviate and extend the wrist against a counterforce that is being applied by the examiner. A positive test would be the reproduction of pain near the lateral epicondyle.
 
 
 

1.       Cook CE, Hegedus EJ.  Orthopedic Physical Examination Tests: An Evidence-Based Approach.
2.       Magee DJ.  Orthopedic Physical Assessment. 5th ed. St. Louis, MO: Saunders Elsevier; 2008.