the anterior drawer test of the shoulder
is used to measure the amount of
anterior joint play or laxity in the
shoulder what you're going to do to
perform this test is you're gonna hold
with your distal hand we're gonna hold
the by condylar access to the humerus
that's gonna allow us to really control
his arm in space I can move it in any
direction real easily with one hand grip
my proximal hand is gonna come up and
really palpate right on the humerus it's
important that you get the humeral head
between your thumb and your finger and
you're not just blindly doing it on the
humerus you want to do it right on the
humeral head in this position I'll bring
them up to 90 degrees and I'm gonna
glide the humerus anterior and back to
neutral in this position now notice I'm
performing at an anterior medial plane
that's important because the plane of
the glenoid and the scapular plane is
anterior medial so you want to perform
your drawer in that position to make
sure that you're getting true
translation that's congruent with the
line of the joint