Questionnaire:

This questionnaire aims at exploring your use of neurological examination in

patients presenting with suspected cervical radiculopathy. Please take your
time reading the description before answering the questions.

1) How many years is it since you qualified as a physiotherapist? Please

write years since you qualified below.

2) In your current practice (or for full time student; before starting your
MSc), how often do you see patients presenting with neck and/or arm
complaints?

Never rarely sometimes often exclusively

3) In patients presenting with suspected cervical radiculopathy, which

neurological examination procedures would you routinely use as part of
your reasoning process towards a diagnosis? Please tick the boxes of
relevant examination.

NB: If you are currently not seeing patients, please tick the boxes of the
neurological examination procedures you would use at the current moment.
Motor function:

Manual muscle testing myotomes.

myotome testing using external load (TheraBand, weights etc)

Reflexes: Symptom relieving tests:

Biceps Arm abduction test

Brachialis Distraction test

Triceps Neck flexion

Supinator Symptom provocation tests

Sensory: Spurlings test

Light touch low cervical extension

Two-point discrimination neck rotation

Vibration threshold Valsalva manoeuvre

Pressure pain threshold Arm squeeze test

Pressure pain threshold Neurodynamic tests:

Punctate pain threshold (pinprick) Upper Limb neurodynamic test 1

Wind-up Upper Limb neurodynamic test 2a

Heat detection threshold. Upper Limb neurodynamic test 2b

Cold detection threshold. Upper limb neurodynamic test 3

Heat pain threshold. Scapular depression

Cold pain threshold.

Nerve palpation:

Ulnar nerve trunk

Radial nerve trunk

Brachial plexus inferior to-

 -clavicula

Median nerve trunk

Doorbells test.

If you use another examination not included in this questionnaire, please describe:

4) Which neurological examination procedure(s) do you find most useful to

rule in the diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy? If you use several
examination procedures together (also called battery or cluster of tests)
please write all examinations in.

5) which neurological examination procedure(s) do you find most useful to

rule out the diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy? If you use several
examinations procedures together (also called battery or cluster of tests)
please write all examinations in.