Kernig's sign should be tested for if meningitis is suspected.
Each hip is flexed in turn, and then attempt to straighten the knee while keeping the hip flexed.
In a meningitis, this movement is greatly limited by spasm of hamstrings - which in turn causes pain - due to inflammatory exudates around the roots of the lumbar theca.
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