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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2017 Feb 3;47(3):163–172. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2017.6567

TABLE 2.

Lumbar Spine Tests That Provoked the Patient’s Symptoms (n = 101)*

Variable Value
Pain with lumbar flexion 43 (43)
Pain with lumbar extension 60 (59)
Pain with lumbar sidebending: right 32 (32)
Pain with lumbar sidebending: left 35 (35)
Femoral nerve test
 No 85 (84)
 Yes: bilateral 5 (5)
 Yes: left 2 (2)
 Yes: right 6 (6)
 Unable to perform 3 (3)
Slump-sit test
 Peroneal bias: no 59 (58)
 Yes: bilateral 6 (6)
 Yes: left 18 (18)
 Yes: right 16 (16)
 Unable to perform 2 (2)
Slump-sit tibial bias
 No 48 (48)
 Yes: bilateral 17 (17)
 Yes: left 15 (15)
 Yes: right 18 (18)
 Unable to perform 2 (2)
*

Values are n (%).

Indicates that the test was not fully completed because the patient reported severe pain when the test was initiated.

Data missing for 1 patient.