Straight Leg Raise (SLR) or Lasegue test for Sciatic nerve pain (Sciatica)

John Gibbons is a registered Osteopath, Lecturer and Multi-published Author and is demonstrating how to perform the straight leg raise (SLR) or Lasegue test for the sciatic nerve (tibial and peroneal component) and is called Sciatica. John shows you in his other neurological videos to assess the nerve root level of the adductors (obturator nerve through L3 reflex), patella tendon (femoral nerve through L4 reflex), semitendinosus (tibial / sciatic nerve of L5 reflex) and Achilles / plantar (tibial nerve of sciatic through S1 reflex) and a normal response is classified as 2 . Any reduced hypo-reflex (1 ) or increased hyper-reflex (3 ) with Clonus and Babinski positive as might indicate some form of upper motor neurone lesion like Multiple sclerosis, stroke, spinal cord tumour or brain injury. Any altered reflex will need further investigation as a possibility of disc or neural pathology. These techniques and more is taught on the Neurological Master-Class at the Unive