The Accuracy of Manual Muscle Testing

Completed

Conditions studied: Lying

In brief

Manual Muscle Testing (MMT) practiced by over a million practitioners worldwide. However, it's accuracy under varying levels of blindness has not yet been considered. This study will test this accuracy. Study Hypothesis: MMT can accurately distinguish congruent from incongruent statements. Also, the accuracy of MMT is positively correlated with practitioner experience.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01066312

Run by

Parker Research Institute

People needed

160

Starts

2010-03-01

Expected to finish

2013-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-06-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Practitioners
• health care provider
• aged between 18 and 65 years old
• healthy
• fluent in English
• Testees
• aged between 18 and 65 years old
• healthy
• fluent in English

You may not qualify if…

• Practitioners
• a current physical disability or injury of either upper extremity
• Blind, deaf or mute
• Testees
• a current physical disability or injury of either upper extremity
• Prior experience with MMT
• Blind, deaf or mute
• are known to the Practitioner
• NOTE: For this study, no compensation is possible.

Where it is running

• Parker Research Institute — Dallas, Texas, United States

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