Spurling test

Spurling test
(for cervical radiculopathy) the examiner presses down on the top of the head while the patient rotates the head laterally and into hyperextension; pain radiating into the upper limb ipsilateral to a rotation position of the head indicates radiculopathy.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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