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Provocation sacroiliac joint tests have validity in the diagnosis of sacroiliac joint painMark Laslett
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87:874; author reply 874-5. 2006
Pain provocation tests for diagnosis of sacroiliac joint painMark Laslett
Moorhouse Medical Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
Aust J Physiother 52:229. 2006
Diagnosing painful sacroiliac joints: A validity study of a McKenzie evaluation and sacroiliac provocation testsMark Laslett
Linkopings Universitet, Sweden
Aust J Physiother 49:89-97. 2003..A specific clinical examination and reasoning process can differentiate between symptomatic and asymptomatic sacroiliac joints..
Correlation of clinical examination characteristics with three sources of chronic low back painSharon Young
Mobile Spine and Rehabilitation Center, Mobile, AL 36608, USA
Spine J 3:460-5. 2003..Research has demonstrated some progress in using a clinical examination to predict discogenic or sacroiliac (SI) joint sources of pain. No clear predictors of symptomatic lumbar zygapophysial joints have yet been demonstrated...
Clinical predictors of lumbar provocation discography: a study of clinical predictors of lumbar provocation discographyMark Laslett
Dept for Health and Society Physiotherapy, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Eur Spine J 15:1473-84. 2006..Three clinical variables have modest predictive power in relation to lumbar discography results and two combinations of variables were highly specific to positive discography...
Clinical predictors of screening lumbar zygapophyseal joint blocks: development of clinical prediction rulesMark Laslett
PhysioSouth, Moorhouse Medical Centre, 3 Pilgrim Place, Christchurch, 8002, New Zealand
Spine J 6:370-9. 2006..The low prevalence of ZJ pain implies that identification of clinical predictors of a positive response to a screening block is needed...
Diagnosis of sacroiliac joint pain: validity of individual provocation tests and composites of testsMark Laslett
Department of Health and Society, Linkopings Universitet, Linkoping, Sweden
Man Ther 10:207-18. 2005..When all six provocation tests do not provoke familiar pain, the SIJ can be ruled out as a source of current LBP...
Centralization as a predictor of provocation discography results in chronic low back pain, and the influence of disability and distress on diagnostic powerMark Laslett
Department for Health and Society Physiotherapy, Linkoping University, Linköping 5 581 83, Sweden
Spine J 5:370-80. 2005..A previous study suggested that it may have utility in the clinical diagnosis of discogenic pain and may assist patient selection for discography and specific treatments for disc pain...
Agreement between diagnoses reached by clinical examination and available reference standards: a prospective study of 216 patients with lumbopelvic painMark Laslett
Dept for Health and Society Physiotherapy, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 6:28. 2005..There is a need for studies that evaluate the diagnostic performance of clinical diagnoses against available reference standards...
Zygapophysial joint blocks in chronic low back pain: a test of Revel's model as a screening testMark Laslett
Department of Health and Society Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkopings Universitet, SE 581581 85, Sweden
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 5:43. 2004..This study evaluates the utility of 'Revel's criteria' as a screening tool for selection of chronic low back pain patients for controlled ZJ diagnostic blocks...
Comparison of a novel direct measure of rapid pain intensity change to traditional serial 100 mm VAS measurement of pain intensityMark Laslett
AUT University, School of Rehabilitation and Occupation Studies, Christchurch, New Zealand
Clin J Pain 28:675-82. 2012..This study aimed to introduce a new direct measure pain intensity change and compare it with percent change as calculated from the traditional preprocedure and postprocedure pain visual analog scales...
Inter-tester reliability of a new diagnostic classification system for patients with non-specific low back painTom Petersen
Back Centre of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Aust J Physiother 50:85-94. 2004..Due to low prevalence of positive findings in some of the syndromes, future work should focus on testing reliability on a larger sample of patients, and testing of validity and feasibility of the system...
Side of symptomatic annular tear and site of low back pain: is there a correlation?Charles Aprill
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 28:1347-8; author reply 1348-50. 2003
Comments on Berthelot et al. review: "Provocative sacroiliac joint maneuvers and sacroiliac joint block are unreliable for diagnosing sacroiliac joint pain"Mark Laslett
Joint Bone Spine 74:306-7; author reply 307-8. 2007
