Global test (GT) is a general comprehensive test, research, trial, check. Global tests are tentative screening tests for a certain area or the whole musculoskeletal system of a human body. Doing simple stereotyped movements (bending, squatting) in a certain plane or while passing a certain point in these tests is provocative for emergence of a pain syndrome in a certain group of joints or indicating to the area which demands additional examination to define the type of affection of a joint (joints) and establish provisional rheumatologic (working) diagnosis.

Anatomic position

Test on straightening

Test in the squatting position

Global test of maximum bending down

Global test with pain in the shoulder

Global Test for girdles of the trunk and extremities

Global test of flexibility of the foot