Knee Exam (18 of 27): McMurray's test

18. McMurray's test

Dr. Mark Hutchinson's Knee, Shoulder and Hip/Groin Exam is a combined project of the University of British Columbia (UBC), the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), the Norwegian University of Sport Sciences, Oslo. The project is a teaching initiative of the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility (CHHM) (Vancouver).

The faculty leads are Drs Mark Hutchinson, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Karim Khan and Roald Bahr. Additional faculty support has come from Drs Michael Koehle, Ian Scott, Navin Prasad as well as Tyler Dumont.




Project coordinators: Tonia Timperley and Julian Cooper (UBC School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Education)



Funding: UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) through the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Medicine.

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• injury
• prevention
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• mcmurray
• test

[kandu813]

These videos are so helpful!!

thank you so much!!!

-you're helping future drs everywhere!

[tronjhiem79]

thank you for the video!

[Ibrahimaliasiri]

how to if the test is positive ?

plz answer me tomorrow will be the exam

[338888]

@coreybrooks618 It is varus. anyway, this whole varus valgus thing is confusing. Just remember in knee, joint/force away from midline, is varus. anything towards midline is valgus. Same goes to ankle deformity.

[338888]

awesome explanation. in ortho, we need demonstration to understand a test and this video makes my knee examination easier. While my friends still getting confused as they memories words instead of video. I ask them to watch in utube, too bad nobody wants to. They prefer books.

[ksmoove1100]

really helps for NBCE part IV

[JEHIAHjustdoit]

what injuries is this mostly for???

[TheGirlslimshady]

These tests are awesome! Much help during Occ Med Exams! Thanks

[blahblahblahuser]

Sensitivity ~26% and specificity ~94%

Search "A review of the McMurray test: definition, interpretation, and clinical usefulness." in PubMed

[grizzlys23]

@coreybrooks,

Putting the joint into Varus stress (bow leg) is specific to the medial meniscus. The physician, whom im guessing is an orthopedist, is absolutely correct. Varus and valgus refer to the direction of the joint, not the direction of the force applied. In Varus stress the tibia is directed towards the midline, the opposite is true of Valgus stress (knock knee).

[longtail4711]

These videos are hugely helpful to my MT training. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this! 

[coreybrooks618]

You apply VALGUS stress, not Varus. Otherwise, great video!