What Does Kleiger Test for?
Kleiger's Test or External Rotation Is Used for the Diagnosis of a Medial Ankle Sprain, to Assess the Deltoid Ligament Sprain and Inferior Tibiofibular...
Kleiger's test or external rotation is used for the diagnosis of a medial ankle sprain, to assess the deltoid ligament sprain and inferior tibiofibular syndesmotic sprain.
What is a positive Kleiger test?
A positive test result occurs when the patient has pain over the syndesmosis. The external rotation test has a sensitivity of 20% and a specificity of 84.8%. A variation on the external rotation test is the Kleiger test. This test can demonstrate the integrity of the deltoid ligament.
What is a positive talar tilt test?
A test that, when positive, indicates a sprain of the anterior talofibular and the calcaneofibular ligament in the ankle.
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