McMurray's Test

Hello,

I am a future nursing student who is a certified athletic trainer. The McMurray's test is somewhat accurate, but clinically does give a lot of false positives. To perform the McMurray's I cup the patients heel in one hand with an overhand grip. The other hand is placed over the top of the knee with the thumb and index finger lined up over the medial and lateral joint lines. You then use the hand at the bottom of the ankle/foot to internally and extrenally rotate the knee and flex and extend the knee while maintaining your top hand on the joint line. Feel for clicking along the joint line with internal/externall rotation and flexion and extension of the knee. The test you use valgus or varus force is mainly the valgus/varus knee test to assess for MCL/LCL sprains. I hope that this helps.

Chad, MSEd, ATC, LAT, PES (future nurse)