Wright's test for thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) The Wright’s test is designed to decrease the retropectoralis minor space in the first step, while the second part of the test implicates the costoclavicular interval. Unclear descriptions in the performance of the Wright’s test in the study of Gillard et al. in 2001 prohibit any statement about the accuracy of this test. For this reason, the clinical value in practice is questionable. A positive result is a decrease in the radial pulse and/or rep

THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME (TOS) EXPLAINED Is your patient experiencing neurological signs & symptoms in the arm? Have you excluded cervical nerve root compression and carpal tunnel syndrome? If the above, most common, causes of peripheral nerve pathology have been excluded, one can think of other sites of nerve entrapment. TOS is a symptom complex, which describes the entrapment of neurological, arterial or venous structures at the posterior scalene port/scalene triangle, the costoclavicular inte