How to Detect Symptom Magnification
Detecting symptom magnification can be a challenge for independent medical examiners. Diagnosing symptom magnification and malingering is usually not a part of a physician’s traditional medical training. Fortunately, there are a number of fairly simple tests that IME physicians commonly use to detect symptom magnification, which include:
- Mankopf’s Manuever
- Strength Reflex Test
- Axial Loading Test
- Gordon-Welberry Toe Test
- Hoover Test
- Cervical Motion Test
- Tuning Fork Test
- Burns Bench Test
- Magnuson’s Test
- Proprioception Test
The above tests and dozens of other distraction tests to detect symptom magnification and malingering are demonstrated and explained in the 65 minute DVD Symptom Magnification, Deception & Malingering: Identification Through Distraction and Other Tests and Techniques.