Reverse Cozen Test
What is the "Reverse Cozen Test" used for?
- Indicates medial epicondylitis (Golfer’s Elbow).
How to perform the "Reverse Cozen Test"?
- The patient is seated.
- The examiner palpates the medial epicondyle with one hand while the other hand rests on the wrist of the patient’s supinated forearm .
- The patient attempts to flex the extended hand against the resistance of the examiner’s hand on the wrist.
What is the positive result?
- Acute, stabbing pain over the medial epicondyle suggests medial epicondylitis.
- With this test, it is particularly important to stabilize the elbow. Otherwise, a forcible avoidance movement or pronation could exacerbate a compression syndrome in the pronator musculature (pronator compartment syndrome).
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