| Abstract/Notes |
Muscle testing is Presented as a scholarly book, one shorn of literary scaffolding and designed to be quyckly experienced clinician. Chapter 9, a brief synopsis of human muscle anatomy, will serve to remind the reader of relevant details of location,Structure,Innervation,and Funtion. The test included in this book are tried and true,back to the time of wilhelmine wright,circa1907-1928, who first developed analysis of muscle function during the 1914 polio epidemic in new England. Despite the long history of manual muscle testing, the tehniques are not such that skill is achieved quickly, regardless of the considerable detail used to describe them. The only way to acquire mastery of clinical evaluation procedurs, including manual muscle testing,is to practice over and over again. |
