straight leg–raising test
- straight leg–raising test
- (for lumbar radiculopathy) with the patient lying supine, the symptomatic leg is lifted with the knee fully extended; pain in the lower extremity between 30 and 90 degrees of elevation indicates lumbar radiculopathy, with the distribution of the pain indicating the nerve root involved. Called also Lasиgue t. See also Lasиgue sign, under sign.
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Lasиgue test — straight leg–raising test … Medical dictionary
Lasиgue sign test — La·sиgue sign, test (lah segґ) [Ernest Charles Lasиgue, French physician, 1816–1883] see under sign, and see straight leg–raising test, under test … Medical dictionary
sciatic nerve stretch test — a variant of the straight leg–raising test in which after the leg is raised, the ankle is dorsiflexed; if this increases pain, it indicates abnormal tension of the sciatic nerve root … Medical dictionary
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