Neuromuscular,

I have never heard of this assessment tool - its certainly not in common use in Aus. By the sounds of it you have some demographic data behind it use. Can you please post the reference that cites this tool and the data you quoted (inter/intra reliability would also be useful to know). As far as knew the use of positional fault theories to re-assess effectiveness of treatment is shaky as best. To state that you use this tool to compare effectiveness of different Rx techniques suggests that there is tight correlation between the test results and the cause of back pain - as far as I knew this is something we still don't know in >85% of cases. I would (as would the whole medical community) be very interested in this test if this was the case.

From this then, what is the rationale behind this tool in the context of NSLBP/back pain. It sounds as if it may be sensitive in this population but not very specific as it would be very susceptible to false positives arising from hip/Wikipedia reference-linkSIJ dysfunction and anatomical variants etc. On the surface it sounds like it may be more useful as a functional/WB test in hip/SIJ pathology.

Also how do the results guide treatment choice as you eluded to?

Your response will be appreciated.