Manual Muscle Testing in Physical Therapy

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manual muscle test, abbreviated MMT is an important skill often used by physiotherapists and other health and healing professionals. It is used to assess muscle strength (the client) of a person. The result of the strength test will be used as a baseline / initial data for the formulation of a management of the dedicated physical therapy and can be used to confirm a diagnosis or rule-out other conditions. In others, TEM results can be a basis for progress to another exercise or treatment once a treatment goal has been reached.

The muscle test is not only to assess muscle strength

for muscle testing suggests assessing muscle strength client / patient, it can also be used for the evaluation of the nervous system associated with the muscular system. For example, a person unable to move his arm when told to do so during a physical examination suggest that there is nerve damage.

Using manual muscle testing devices

Many sophisticated devices have been developed to help measure muscle strength. However, these devices are often costly, as great as it occupies a large space, and are often not available in some regions.

muscle testing devices portable DynaMetric have also been developed, which can also provide reliable results. In the future, these portable testers muscle could soon become a common assessment tool for each physiotherapist in clinical practice because it can provide more objective results than manual muscle testing. In addition, the results of modern devices muscle DynaMetric tests can be programmed to automatically store data.

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  • Manual Muscle Testing Topics
  • Muscle Testing Manual (CMM) State


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