Tests for malingering:
- These tests are applied by the to clinic check the malingering around the lower spine.
- These clinical tests are applied by the to therapist check the malingering around the lower spine.
- These tests are applied to the examined part means the affected part of the assessment.
- This clinical or orthopedic test is applied to the clinic.
Name of the special test of the malingering:
- There are two tests for malingering
- Burns test
- Hoover test
What is the purpose of both tests?
- Both tests are used to check the malingering.
Burns test:
How do you performance of the burns test?
- The patient is in a sitting position for the test in the starting position.
- Then the examiner [ therapists ] instruct the patient for doing to kneel on a chair & then bend forward to touch the floor with the fingers.
What is the result of the burns test?
- This test is positive for malingering if the patient is unable to perform the test or the patient overbalances.
Hoove test:
How do you perform the hoove test?
- The patient lies supine for the test in the starting position.
- The examiner [ therapist ] places one hand under each calcaneus bone while the patient’s legs remain relaxed on the examining table.
- Then the examiner [ therapist ] instructs the patient for doing lift to one leg off the table,& keep the knee joint straight, as
- For active straight leg raising [ SLR ].
- If the patient does not lift the leg / the examiner does not feel pressure under the opposite heel, the patient is probably not trying or may be a malingerer.
What is the result of the hoove test?
- If the lifted limb is weaker, however, the pressure under the normal heel increase, because of the increased effort to lift the weak leg.
- The two sides are compared for differences.
