Slump Lateral Bending Test Diagnostic Accuracy in Lumbar Radicular Pain

Inclusion criteria

• Adults aged 18 years or older.
• Patients with suspected peripheral neurogenic pain or neural mechanosensitivity.
• Presence of symptoms potentially related to peripheral nerve involvement, such as:
• pain;
• paresthesia;
• dysesthesia;
• symptoms modified by neurodynamic positioning.
• Ability to understand the study procedures and provide written informed consent.
• Ability to undergo the clinical, neurological, and neurodynamic assessment procedures required by the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Age under 18 years.
• Inability to provide informed consent.
• Presence of severe neurological disease or central nervous system disorder that may interfere with clinical assessment.
• Previous major surgery or trauma affecting the assessed body region, if it may compromise interpretation of the clinical tests.
• Acute inflammatory, infectious, or systemic disease that may explain the symptoms or contraindicate clinical testing.
• Severe pain or clinical condition preventing safe execution of the Slump Lateral Bending Test or other neurodynamic tests.
• Pregnancy, if neurodynamic testing is considered inappropriate or not clinically indicated.
• Inability to understand instructions or complete the assessment procedures.