This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Diagnostic test accuracy). The objectives are as follows:

The general aim of our review is to provide information that may assist the clinician in making decisions about appropriate management in patients with low‐back pain and leg pain suspected of having radicular pain and radiculopathy due to disc herniation. More specifically, the objective of this systematic review is to assess the diagnostic performance of tests performed during physical examination in the identification of radicular pain and radiculopathy due to lumbar disc herniation in patients with low‐back and leg pain.