Investigation of Methods and Styles of Manual Muscle Testing by AK Practitioners

Journal of Chiropractic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Conable, Katharine ^a   Corneal, John ^a   Hambrick, Terry ^a   Marquina, Nelson ^a   Zhang, John ^b  

^a Private practice of chiropractic ^*

^b LOGAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiropractic; Electromyography; Muscles

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646488526     PISSN: 15563707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-3467(07)60106-2     Document Type: Article

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