Cycling Damaged Ulnar Nerve – Froment’s Sign Provocative Test

Did you ever ride your bike really fast with a lot of vibrations?

Well, I know I did.

It can be dangerous and slowly leave the fingers of our hands paralyzed.

The condition I am referring to is called Ulnar Nerve Syndrome.

This second simple test that can be performed is the Froman’s Sign Provocative Test.

It consists of trying to take away a piece of paper from the patient and patient is asked

to hold the paper tightly with his thumb.

So basically this way.

Now, the clinician would be trying to take the paper away from the patient and if the

patient cannot hold the paper and then compensates by flexing the thumb this way, well then the

test is positive.