LATERAL PIVOT-SHIFT / APPREHENSION TEST FOR POSTEROLATERAL ROTATORY INSTABILITY (PLRI) Symptoms of PLRI are often painful clicking, cracking and locking of the elbow with light decrease of extension in more than 50% of subjects and pain with lifting in the supinated position. The Pivot-Shift Test has been validated by O'Driscoll et al. (2000) who found a sensitivity of 100% in anesthesized subjects and 37,5% in awake patients with unkown specificity values. (Regan et al. 2006) Apprehension by th

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