The Scour Test
ICF category	Measurement of impairment of body function: pain in joints
Description	A test to determine the irritability of the hip joint
Measurement method	The hip Scour test is performed with the patient lying in the supine position while the clinician flexes and adducts the hip until resistance to movement is detected. The clinician then maintains flexion into resistance and gently moves the hip into abduction, then bringing the hip through 2 full arcs of motion. If the patient reports no pain, then the examiner repeats the test while applying long-axis compression through the femur. This test must be administered with some caution so as to not irritate the hip joint. The patient is asked to rate the pain experienced during the movement on a 0-to-10 NPRS.30
Nature of variable	Ordinal
Units of measurement	0-to-10 NPRS
Measurement properties	The intratester reliability of the Scour test is good (ICC = 0.87; 95%CI: 0.76–0.93) for rating of hip pain.30 The MCID for the NPRS has been shown to be a reduction of 2 points.27,51 The MDC95 for the Scour test was determined from a sample of 22 patients with knee OA and 17 subjects without lower extremity symptoms or known pathology. The MDC95 for pain was a change of more than 1.6 points on the 0-to-10 NPRS.30