Common errors and clinical guidelines for manual muscle testing: "the arm test" and other inaccurate procedures
Open Access
- 19 December 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies
- Vol. 16 (1) , 16
Abstract
The manual muscle test (MMT) has been offered as a chiropractic assessment tool that may help diagnose neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction. We contend that due to the number of manipulative practitioners using this test as part of the assessment of patients, clinical guidelines for the MMT are required to heighten the accuracy in the use of this tool.Keywords
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