Interexaminer reliability of the deltoid and psoas muscle test

Henry Pollard; Bronwyn Lakay; Frances Tucker; Brett Watson; Peter Bablis

doi:10.1016/j.jmpt.2004.12.008

Interexaminer reliability of the deltoid and psoas muscle test

Henry Pollard^*, Bronwyn Lakay, Frances Tucker, Brett Watson, Peter Bablis

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Objective: To determine if 2 practitioners of differing skill levels could reliably agree on the presence of a weak or strong deltoid or psoas muscle. Study Design: Interexaminer reliability study of 2 common muscle tests. Main Outcome Measures: Cohen κ (unweighted) scores, observer agreement, and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results: The results showed that an experienced and a novice practitioner have good agreement when using repeated muscle test procedures on the deltoid (κ 0.62) and the psoas (κ 0.67). Conclusions: The manual muscle test procedures using the anterior deltoid or psoas showed good interexaminer reliability when used by an experienced and a novice user. These techniques may be used between practitioners in multidoctor assessment/management programs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	52-56
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
Volume	28
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmpt.2004.12.008
Publication status	Published - Jan 2005

Keywords

Chiropractic
Deltoid Muscle
Muscle Test
Psoas Muscle
Reliability

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