Intertester reliability of an osteopathic visceral test on the kidney
Item
- Title
- Intertester reliability of an osteopathic visceral test on the kidney
- Author(s)
- Joëlle Emery Robyr
- Abstract
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The objective of our work was to assess the agreement’s grade for an osteopathic test between two judges, who are last year students at the Swiss Osteopathy School. For this purpose, the tests of kidneys’ areas, which are teached at the Swiss School by Mrs Finet and Williame were chosen. The parametric statistic kappa of Cohen was chosen to estimate the agreement’s grade.
The calibration was performed by applying the different tests on a colleague, who guided us for reaching the most similar testing skills.
Our tests were performed during November and December 2003 on 50 patients in different private osteopathic closet.
Both judges performed the tests successively after the osteopathic consultation was completed. The patients who were tested did not necessary suffer from the kidney’s area, but they all have a pain and thus consulting an osteopath. The tests were performed on an heterogeneous and symptomatic population.
The different possible results of the mobility tests of the renal areas are the following: inhaling lesion, expiration lesion, fixed area or free area.
Agreement was not significantly different than chance alone even if prevalence of positive findings was of 50%.
These tests represent the mobility of only one body area, and we are aware that a patient is a much more complex entity. Tests were done out of a clinical context. The application of these results to the osteopathy is questionable because a consultation is not limited to a single test but to much more. - presented at
- Swiss School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2004
- Date Submitted
- 1.3.2006 00:00:00
- Type
- undergraduate_project
- Language
- French
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13736
- Inst-Identifier
- 1102
- Keywords
- Visceral osteopathy,Reliability,Osteopathic Diagnosis
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Joëlle Emery Robyr, “Intertester reliability of an osteopathic visceral test on the kidney”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 27, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.com/s/orw/item/1045