This technique traces back to the 1940s and an American husband and wife physiotherapist couple, Henry and Florence Kendall, 1 who developed a clinical procedure to ascertain the strength of a muscle and postural procedures allowing them to isolate and test the strength of a speci c muscle independent of the surrounding musculature.SheepGoat Results AK Can Work AK Will Work in My Trial Figures - uploaded by Stephan Schwartz Author content All figure content in this area was uploaded by Stephan Schwartz Content may be subject to copyright.
Applied Kinesiology For Free Content UploadedDiscover the worlds research 17 million members 135 million publications 700k research projects Join for free Content uploaded by Stephan Schwartz Author content All content in this area was uploaded by Stephan Schwartz on Feb 06, 2018 Content may be subject to copyright.Schwartz, 1 Jessica Utts, PhD, 2 S.James P. Spottiswoode, 3 Christopher W. Morris, DO, 6 and Ginette Nachman, MD, PhD 7 Premise: Applied Kin esiology (AK ) is a diagnosti c technique widely used wit hin the Integrat ive Medical comm unity. In essence, it pos its that a questio n can be mental ly held in a person s mi nd, sometim es while the y are holdin g a substance like a vitamin, or a fo od sample, and by me asuring rela tive muscular wea kness an answer as to w hether the subs tance or the conditi on represen ted by the qu estion is go od for that person can be o btained. Grip strength being a self-administered AK test of relative muscular strength. For each trial, a pair of randomly numbered sealed vials, each pair in a randomly numbered plastic bag, were used as the objects of the trial. In each bag, one vial contained saline solution while the other was lled with a slightly smaller amount of saline solution to which had been added ionic hydroxylamine hydrochloride (NH 3 OH), producing a toxic solution of 9 mgml. Each trial consisted of a separate muscle test for each vial. ![]() The force used by the kinesiologists in each of their trials was measured via a pressure pad system. The hand dynamometer trials were conducted with no kinesiologist present. Results: Of the 151 sets of trials, the toxic vial was identi ed correctly in 80 of them (53), resulting in a one-tailed exact binomial P -value of.258. Results for two of the kinesiologists were almost exactly at chance. For the third kinesiologist, there was a one-tailed exact binomial P -value of.18 (unad- justed for multiple testing). Results for the dynamometer were also almost exactly at chance. Testing whether there was a signi cant difference in proportions for whom the AK test worked based on belief about whether it would work resulted in non-signi cant 2 values of 0.6 ( P.439) for the trials with one kinesiologist and 2.222 ( P.136) for the hand dynamometer trials. While there was no signi cant difference in performance for males and females for the trials of the male kinesiologist or the hand dynamometer, the combined data for the two female kinesiologists did reveal a difference. Of the 33 sessions with females, only 15 were successful (45), while for the 18 sessions with males, 14 were successful (78), resulting in a 2 statistic of 4.96, P.026. However, given all of the 2 tests performed in this section, the results must be interpreted with caution because of multiple testing. Results indicate belief in whether the AK test will work was not signi cantly related to whether it actually did work. A 2 test of the relationship between time perception and correct vial choice showed no signi cant relationships. Address: Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, P.O. Box 905 Langley, WA 98260 99 2014 Elsevier Inc. EXPLORE MarchApril 2014, Vol. No. 2 ISSN 1550-830736.00 ORIGINAL RESEARCH. ![]() All rights reser ved.) PROJECT BACKGROUND AND CONCEPTION There are literally thousands of health practitioners in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) allopathic MDs, homeopathic MDs, osteopathic physicians, naturo- paths, chiropractors, nurses, dentists, physiotherapists, and body workers using a muscle-testing protocol known as Applied Kinesiology (AK) as a diagnostic aid.
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