Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: two randomised-order blinded studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Manual muscle testing (MMT) is a non-invasive assessment tool used by a variety of health care providers to evaluate neuromusculoskeletal integrity, and muscular strength in particular. In one form of MMT called muscle response testing (MRT), muscles are said to be tested, not to evaluate muscular strength, but neural control. One established, but insufficiently validated, application of MRT is to assess a patient's response to semantic stimuli (e.g. spoken lies) during a therapy session. Our primary aim was to estimate the accuracy of MRT to distinguish false from true spoken statements, in randomised and blinded experiments. A secondary aim was to compare MRT accuracy to the accuracy when practitioners used only their intuition to differentiate false from true spoken s

SUBMITTER: Jensen AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5131520 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature