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.
Key Indexing Terms
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
October 1,
2003
Received:
June 6,
2003
Footnotes
Sources of financial support: the ONE Research Foundation provided a grant to support this work.
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