Reliability of the Buttock Applied Strain Test to Diagnose Radicular Pain in Patients With Low Back Pain.

Boaz Gedaliahu Samolsky Dekel Maria Cristina Sorella Alessio Vasarri Rita Maria Melotti

Published in: Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain (2020)

Among patients with LBP, the BUAS test showed satisfactory sensitivity, specificity, prior probability, and inter-rater reliability; thus, it may be considered a useful adjunctive tool to diagnose RP in patients with LBP. For more generalized results, more research, in clinical settings other than pain clinics, is needed.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
primary care
spinal cord
postoperative pain