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KNEE ASSESSMENT SERIES PART 9: APLEY'S TEST FOR MENISCUS LESIONS In the next three episodes we´ll take a look at three different meniscus tests. Unfortunately, none of these tests have great accuracy, which is why you will have to use MRI imaging to really detect a meniscus lesion. Like we posted a couple of days ago, even in case of a damaged meniscus, surgery is not recommended unless it is giving you severe problems in your daily life like severe locking! Follow the link to read more about me

JOINT LINE TENDERNESS (JLT) FOR MENISCUS INJURY The last test in this series for meniscus injuries is the JLT test. According to the meta-analysis of Smith et al. (2015), the JLT has a sensitivity of 83% and a specificity of 83%. This means that this test is moderately useful to confirm meniscus tears with a LR of 4.0 and actually our best tool to exclude meniscus tears in a negative test outcome with LR- of 0.23. | Physiotutors