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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 94-B, Issue SUPP_XXXIX | Pages 246 - 246
1 Sep 2012
Paringe V Kate S Mark B
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Introduction

As modern day lifestyle is becoming more active so is the incidence of meniscal injuries on rise. An injury to the meniscus is a common orthopedic problem with the incidence of meniscal injury resulting in meniscectomy of 61 per 100,000 populations per year. The common practice in diagnosis of the meniscal injury involves clinical examination followed by radiological or arthroscopic confirmation. The clinical tests commonly performed are joint line tenderness (JLT), McMurray's Test (Non-weight bearing test) and Childress Test (Weight Bearing Test).

Aim

In our study, we performed the comparative analysis of the validity parameters for components of clinical examination in form of Joint line tenderness, McMurray's test and Childress Test.