MOVING VALGUS STRESS TEST FOR MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT INSUFFICIENCY OF THE ELBOW If your patient is presenting after a trauma of the elbow and with medial elbow pain, one of the first things you want to test (after excluding a fracture) is the integrity of the ligaments. The moving valgus stress test is used to assess the medial collateral ligament at the elbow. According to a small study of O'Driscoll et al. (2017) the Moving Valgus Stress test has a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of

Possible Cause of Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome/Stress Fracture: Valgus Tibial Bending Moment with Varus Forefoot Strike During Running The animation below demonstrates how a lateral forefoot strike during running, due to varus alignment of the forefoot to the ground at footstrike, can cause increased valgus bending of the tibia during the initial phases of ground contact during running. The valgus tibial bending moment creates a valgus bend within the tibia (magnified in the video below for dem

VALGUS STRESS TEST FOR MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT (MCL) INJURIES Medial collateral ligament injuries are among the most prevalent knee injuries seen in primary care. It’s therefore of particular interest for our healthcare systems that physicians and physiotherapists are able to filter patients with suspected MCL injury prior to referring them to secondary care. The Valgus or Abduction Stress Test is designed to stress the medial collateral ligament. In the 0° position, the test stresses the Pos