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== Technique<br>  ==
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The patient is sidelying on the edge of the examination table.&nbsp; The examiner stands facing patient and applies a vertical pressure through the pelvis by leaning their chest against the uppermost iliac crest<ref>Laslett.  The presumed action is a
The patient is sidelying on the edge of the examination table.&nbsp; The examiner stands facing patient and applies a vertical pressure through the pelvis by leaning their chest against the uppermost iliac crest<ref>Laslett.  The presumed action is afckLRcompression force to both SIJs [http://ajp.physiotherapy.asn.au/AJP/49-2/AustJPhysiotherv49i2Laslett.pdf Diagnosing painful sacroiliac joints: A validity study of a McKenzie evaluation and sacroiliac provocation tests].  Australian J of Physiotherapy, 2003</ref>.  
compression force to both SIJs [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12775204 Diagnosing painful sacroiliac joints: A validity study of a McKenzie evaluation and sacroiliac provocation tests].  Australian J of Physiotherapy, 2003</ref>.


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Purpose
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To test for pain of sacroiliac origin

Technique
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The patient is sidelying on the edge of the examination table.  The examiner stands facing patient and applies a vertical pressure through the pelvis by leaning their chest against the uppermost iliac crest[1].


Positive Test:  Reproduction of the patients buttock pain


Negative Test:  No pain or pain other than patient's pain reproduction[2]


Image:SIJ_compression.gif
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Evidence[edit | edit source]

Sn = .69       - LR = .46


Sp = .69       + LR = 2.2[4]

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  1. Laslett. The presumed action is afckLRcompression force to both SIJs Diagnosing painful sacroiliac joints: A validity study of a McKenzie evaluation and sacroiliac provocation tests. Australian J of Physiotherapy, 2003
  2. Robinson HS, Brox JI, Robinson R, Bjelland E, Solem S, Telje T. The reliability of selected motion and pain provocaion tests for the sacroiliac joint. Man Ther.2007;12:72-79.
  3. Clinically Relevant Technologies, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD-s-Nyxabg, Accessed May 2011
  4. Laslett M, Aprill CN, McDonald B, Young SB. Diagnosis of sacroiliac joint pain; Validity of individual provocation tests and composites of tests. Man Ther. 2005;10:207-218