Publications by authors named "Amanda J Burls"
Introduction: Muscle response testing (MRT) is an assessment method used by 1 million practitioners worldwide, yet its usefulness remains uncertain. The aim of this study, one in a series assessing the accuracy of MRT, was to determine whether emotionally arousing stimuli influence its accuracy compared to neutral stimuli.
Methods: To assess diagnostic test accuracy 20 MRT practitioners were paired with 20 test patients (TPs).
Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: two randomised-order blinded studies.
BMC Complement Altern Med
November 2016
Background: Manual muscle testing (MMT) is a non-invasive assessment tool used by a variety of health care providers to evaluate neuromusculoskeletal integrity, and muscular strength in particular. In one form of MMT called muscle response testing (MRT), muscles are said to be tested, not to evaluate muscular strength, but neural control. One established, but insufficiently validated, application of MRT is to assess a patient's response to semantic stimuli (e.
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- Evidence-based practice (EBP) was created in a hospital to see if it helps patients more than standard care (SP).
- After starting EBP, doctors saw a decrease in the number of patients who died and a shorter time patients spent in the hospital compared to before.
- Overall, patients treated by EBP doctors were less likely to die and stayed in the hospital for fewer days than those treated by SP doctors.