Think you have a meniscus tear? The Thessaly test is one of the most accurate meniscus tear tests and it can easily be done at home. You stand on the injured leg with your knee flexed to around 20 degrees. Then rotate your hips as far as you can left and right without moving your foot. If this hurts, there’s tenderness to palpate along your knee joint line and you have limited flexion and extension, you can be pretty sure it’s your meniscus. Now can you run on a meniscus injury? It depends! If y

THE RISE AND THE FALL OF THE THESSALY TEST/AKA DISCO TEST TO DETECT MENISCUS LESIONS To some of our followers this might be "cold coffee" as we say in Germany, but sometimes it's good to have a look at older research. In case of the Thessaly test, it's particularly interesting, because it shows how a flawed study design can lead to overestimation of its prognostic value. While research has shown that it is very difficult to detect meniscus lesions by the means of clinical examination (Apley and

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