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Dr Sahrmann suggests that our method of straight-leg-raising (SLR) testing may have been flawed because we did not use a "hard table" and did not stabilize the contralateral lower extremity as described by Kendall. We are unaware of any data that support the biases written in Kendall's text¹ and shared by Dr Sahrmann or any methods that provide more accurate (valid) data than the data obtained by our method. We believe that our method reflects a theoretically sound technique that is commonly used by clinicians. Our reliability data were highly repeatable over the time interval used in our study. Dr Sahrmann also states that we failed to "stretch to resistance." We operationally defined the endpoint for the test as the point at which the subject felt a "stretching sensation," and based on our reliability findings, this is probably a reasonable way to define an endpoint.

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