THE ACTIVE STRAIGHT LEG RAISE TEST FOR PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN Patients with pelvic-girdle pain often report difficulties to transfer load between the lower limb and the trunk. The active straight leg raise test, abbreviated as ASLR is thought to test this ability. Mens et al. in the year 2001 have evaluated the test regarding its test-retest reliability and validity to discriminate healthy subjects from patients with posterior pelvic pain since pregnancy. They found a test-retest reliability after 1

STRAIGHT LEG RAISE TEST (SLR) OR LASÈGUE TEST FOR RADICULAR PAIN The SLR is the most common test used in the diagnosis of radicular pain in case of a symptomatic disc herniation with nerve root compression. According to a Cochrane review by van der Windt et al. (2010) it has a pooled sensitivity of 92% and a specificity of 28%. This means that this test has no added value to diagnose a HNP with nerve root compression and is moderately useful to rule out the condition. The test stresses the nerve