UPPER LIMB

TENSION TEST 4 (ULTT4)

​• Testing for

C8 and T1 nerve roots and ulnar nerve as the source of the client’s painful shoulder and arm.

​• Test positioning

The client is supine, with their side being tested at the edge of the table.

​• Action

Apply a depressive force to the client’s affected shoulder.

With your other hand, hold the client’s wrist and Abduct their affected humerus to 90-degrees.

Slowly flex their elbow, then supinate their forearm.

Slowly extend their wrist and fingers and deviate the wrist to the radial side.

​• Positive finding

Recurrence of their shoulder and arm pain.