Disentangling manual muscle testing and Applied Kinesiology: critique and reinterpretation of a literature review
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Disentangling manual muscle testing and Applied Kinesiology: critique and reinterpretation of a literature review
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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chiropractic & Osteopathy
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1746-1340
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1340-15-11