Clinical assessment Clearance test

Subjective assessment and objective assessment are used for diagnosis purpose. Only subjective assessments don’t give perfect and final diagnosis. It may lead misguidance in diagnosis and treatment plan if objective assessment direct go through the specific area according to patient complain. So, detail objective assessment of whole body should be conducted. For example if patient came with problem at knee. Detail assessment of whole body should be conducted then specific assessment should be conducted at area where patient feel problem. It will show that whether there are any problem in another region or not? Whether cause route is somewhere else. These objective assessments are performed by using DIFFERENT TEST.

Main objective
• To know actual diagnosis of the patient.
• To provide proper appliance to patient according to need.

Clearance test
Clearance test is performed by patient as instruction given by examiner. It is the test which shows that the part or segment is clear or not. During test if patient can’t perform or feel pain, test should perform on that specific part. If patient can perform it is clear that we can proceed further.
During clearing test the examiner should note following points.
• Plain of movement
• Expected range of motion
• Coordination capacity
• Understand the instruction
• Expression

For each test remember for:
• Privacy maintenance
• Explain about procedure
• Make unclothe if necessary
• Demonstration( if patient don’t understand how to do)
• Ensure safety for patient
• If patient can perform result is NEGATIVE
• If patient can not perform result is POSITIVE