Subjective Assessment:
The patient will complain of anterior shoulder pain
They will complain of pain particularly with lifting activities, overhead sports activities or lifting objects overhead with the elbow flexed in the frontal plane
Objective Assessment :
There will be localised tenderness, particularly over the biceps groove and proximal biceps
Pain may be reproduced by passive stretching of the biceps
Pain with Hand behind back
Pain may also be reproduced by resisted active contraction of the biceps in speed’s test (80% sensitivity) or yergason’s test (50% sensitivity)
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