Finkelstein's test

Indications

• assessment of de Quervain's tenosynovitis (or perhaps tenosynovitis in general)

Physical examination

different desriptions

• pain over the distal radius with tucking the thumb inside the other fingers & moving the wrist into ulnar deviation
• pain intensified by ulnar flexion of the wrist with thumb folded into the palm & fingers flexed over thumb
• patient opens hand loosely, then grasps her thumb & uses it to deviate her hand in the ulnar direction towards the 5th finger

* positive Finkelstein's sign also noted in a case of tenosynovitis due to disseminated gonococcus

More general terms

• physical examination technique

Additional terms

• de Quervain's tenosynovitis (stenosing tenosynovitis)