Use of a new method of direct muscle tone measurement for the assessment of the efficacy of strain-counterstrain technique
Item
- Title
- Use of a new method of direct muscle tone measurement for the assessment of the efficacy of strain-counterstrain technique
- Author(s)
- Klawunde Alex
- Abstract
- The research question was to measure whether strain-counterstrain decreases the tone of the treated muscle, and to develop and test a device to measure the change in tone. The operational definition of muscle tone, for the purpose of this study, is the force applied to the probe divided by the amount of indentation into the muscle produced by that force. This was calculated from the gradient of the best-fit straight line on the indentation versus force graph. The one-tailed hypothesis was that there would be a decrease in the tone of the gastrocnemius muscle after the muscle was treated with strain-counterstrain. The null hypothesis was that there was no significant difference in tone before and after treatment.For the purpose of the experiment, a tonometer was designed and constructed. An inter- and intra-examiner reliability study was conducted using objects with predictable mechanical property, which showed that the device is reliable. Two Pilot studies were carried out, each with 5 subjects, to find out about the behaviour of muscle under compression in relation to time. The design of the main experiment, carried out on 15 subjects, was a within group design..There was no significant difference between the gradients before and after treatment either in the control or in the treatment group. The conclusion of this part of the study is that the possible difference could not be detected by this instrument.The measurements of muscle tone and objectifying manual therapeutic techniques will remain of interest for the osteopathic profession.
- Abstract
- presented at
- British School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2000
- Date Submitted
- 31.7.2000 00:00:00
- Type
- undergraduate_project
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 12173
- Inst-Identifier
- 780
- Keywords
- Muscle Tone,Counterstrain
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Klawunde Alex, “Use of a new method of direct muscle tone measurement for the assessment of the efficacy of strain-counterstrain technique”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 29, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.com/s/orw/item/2287