Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Disentangling manual muscle testing and Applied Kinesiology: critique and reinterpretation of a literature review. | Chiropractic Osteopathy BioMed Central Commentary Open Access Disentangling manual muscle testing and Applied Kinesiology critique and reinterpretation of a literature review Mitchell Haas 1 Robert Cooperstein2 and David Peterson1 Address Western States Chiropractic College 2900 NE 132nd Avenue Portland OR 97230 USA and 2Palmer College of Chiropractic West San Jose CA 95134 USA Email Mitchell Haas - mhaas@ Robert Cooperstein - David Peterson - dpeterson@ Corresponding author Published 23 August 2007 Received 23 April 2007 Chiropractic Osteopathy 2007 15 11 doi 1746-1340-15-11 Accepted 23 August 2007 This article is available from http content 15 1 1 1 2007 Haas et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Cuthbert and Goodheart recently published a narrative review on the reliability and validity of manual muscle testing MMT in the Journal. The authors should be recognized for their effort to synthesize this vast body of literature. However the review contains critical errors in the search methods inclusion criteria quality assessment validity definitions study interpretation literature synthesis generalizability of study findings and conclusion formulation that merit a reconsideration of the authors findings. Most importantly a misunderstanding of the review could easily arise because the authors did not distinguish the general use of muscle strength testing from the specific applications that distinguish the Applied Kinesiology AK chiropractic technique. The article makes the fundamental error of implying that the reliability and validity of manual muscle testing lends some degree of credibility to the unique diagnostic .
