A mind-body approach for precompetitive anxiety in power-lifters: 2 case studies

Jensen, Anne M.

doi:10.1016/j.jcm.2010.08.003

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“…We did not evaluate MRT against other widely-used methods of ‘lie detection’, such as polygraph [28]. Other proposed applications of MRT, such as for the diagnosis of a food allergy [9, 29] or the need for a nutritional supplement [30] or to assess athletic performance [31–33], are beyond the scope of our studies.…”

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Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: two randomised-order blinded studies

Jensen

Stevens

Burls

2016

BMC Complement Altern Med

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BackgroundManual 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.g. spoken lies) during a therapy session. Our primary aim was to estimate the accuracy of MRT to distinguish false from true spoken statements, in randomised and blinded experiments. A secondary aim was to compare MRT accuracy to the accuracy when practitioners used only their intuition to differentiate false from true spoken statements.MethodsTwo prospective studies of diagnostic test accuracy using MRT to detect lies are presented. A true positive MRT test was one that resulted in a subjective weakening of the muscle following a lie, and a true negative was one that did not result in a subjective weakening of the muscle following a truth. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1 using a simplified methodology. In Experiment 1, 48 practitioners were paired with 48 MRT-naïve test patients, forming unique practitioner-test patient pairs. Practitioners were enrolled with any amount of MRT experience. In Experiment 2, 20 unique pairs were enrolled, with test patients being a mix of MRT-naïve and not-MRT-naïve. The primary index test was MRT. A secondary index test was also enacted in which the practitioners made intuitive guesses (“intuition”), without using MRT. The actual verity of the spoken statement was compared to the outcome of both index tests (MRT and Intuition) and their mean overall fractions correct were calculated and reported as mean accuracies.ResultsIn Experiment 1, MRT accuracy, 0.659 (95% CI 0.623 - 0.695), was found to be significantly different (p < 0.01) from intuition accuracy, 0.474 (95% CI 0.449 - 0.500), and also from the likelihood of chance (0.500; p < 0.01). Experiment 2 replicated the findings of Experiment 1. Testing for various factors that may have influenced MRT accuracy failed to detect any correlations.ConclusionsMRT has repeatedly demonstrated significant accuracy for distinguishing lies from truths, compared to both intuition and chance. The primary limitation of this study is its lack of generalisability to other applications of MRT and to MMT.Study registrationThe Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR; www.anzctr.org.au; ID # ACTRN12609000455268, and US-based ClinicalTrials.gov (ID # NCT01066312).Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12906-016-1416-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: two randomised-order blinded studies

Jensen

Stevens

Burls

2016

BMC Complement Altern Med

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“…However, a more recent overview of the literature suggests that scientists have not been able to demonstrate that muscle testing consistently reveals hidden emotions [14]. Evidence about the effectiveness of NET is also mixed, although some data suggest that the technique can be effective in reducing anxiety [15,16] and chronic pain [17].…”

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Talking through your Wrists: Using Nonverbal Cues to Assess Mind-Body Congruence in a Chiropractic Care Setting

2013

Altern Integ Med

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Based on observation of 30 client visits in a complementary care office, this article describes an innovative way of "talking to the body" to achieve greater health. Ethnomethodological analysis reveals how participants interactively make sense of a treatment modality known as Neuro Emotional Technique. As the same time, this exploration considers how the assumptions of a traditional Chinese medicine model and a contemporary nonverbal model apply to the interactions. Although the medical model and communication model originated more than 3,500 years and 6,000 miles apart, their central tenets are remarkably similar and reflect many of the assumptions displayed by actual participants. From each perspective, nonverbal communication is regarded as a useful way to bridge the gap between mind and body and to reveal emotional issues unrealized by the mind. Public sentiment is not entirely favorable, however. In a 1999 care as nothing but irrational mysticism. Public criticism has been more measured in the years since [4]. But physician Paul A. Offit, author of in 2013, in which he wrote: "Current gaps in medical knowledge aren't going to be filled by energy fields, acupuncture meridians, or the notion that all things natural must be good for you" ([5], paragraph 19). Offit isn't entirely dismissive of complementary methods, but he is among those who openly encourage skepticism about their usefulness.The current study is not designed to address the efficacy of complementary treatment methods. Instead, it acknowledges, first, that we live in an information environment that involves conflicting messages about such methods, and further, that within that environment, it falls to us to negotiate the meaning of ambiguous information about them. As you will see, some of the patients described in this study were regular patrons of NET. Others were introduced to it without prior exposure, during what they expected to be fairly routine chiropractic sessions. It is informative to see how Dr. Clark presents the option and how the participants interactively negotiate what to make of the experience as it unfolds. Data CollectionAs stated, I collected data for this study during naturalistic observation of 30 client visits with Dr. Clark (not her real name). Dr. Clark is a European-American woman in her mid 30s. At the time of this study, she had been a chiropractor for about 10 years and an NET practitioner for about 7 years. Her office was located on a pleasant street lined by small businesses and historic homes. The majority of her clients (approximately 75%) were women between 30 and 50 years of age. Over three months' time, I observed 27 female and 3 male clients, which constituted a typical patient load for her. The clients' ages ranged from 3 days old to about 65 years old. In all, I observed 4 children and babies and 26 adults. Only clients who visited Dr. Clark during my observation period were included in this study.Before the study, I met with Dr. Clark and her receptionist to discuss the protocol for securing infor...

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“…The present literature search yielded 11 references reporting alteration of cortisol levels after chiropractic intervention [76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86]: three case studies demonstrating a quantitative change in salivary cortisol [76][77][78], and eight-level V or higher [38] references including five clinical trials [79][80][81][82][83], and three reviews [84][85][86] quantifying change in cortisol with chiropractic care. The latter category includes two systematic reviews/meta-analyses, one finding moderate quality evidence that spinal manipulation may influence cortisol levels post-intervention [86], and a more recent work finding "mixed effects" of chiropractic care on salivary/serum cortisol levels in people with spinal pain, a discrepancy the authors suggest may be due to differences in study populations [84].…”

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Vertebral Subluxation and Systems Biology: An Integrative Review Exploring the Salutogenic Influence of Chiropractic Care on the Neuroendocrine-Immune System

Haas,

Chung,

Kent

et al. 2024

Cureus

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In this paper we synthesize an expansive body of literature examining the multifaceted influence of chiropractic care on processes within and modulators of the neuroendocrine-immune (NEI) system, for the purpose of generating an inductive hypothesis regarding the potential impacts of chiropractic care on integrated physiology. Taking a broad, interdisciplinary, and integrative view of two decades of research-documented outcomes of chiropractic care, inclusive of reports ranging from systematic and meta-analysis and randomized and observational trials to case and cohort studies, this review encapsulates a rigorous analysis of research and suggests the appropriateness of a more integrative perspective on the impact of chiropractic care on systemic physiology. A novel perspective on the salutogenic, health-promoting effects of chiropractic adjustment is presented, focused on the improvement of physical indicators of well-being and adaptability such as blood pressure, heart rate variability, and sleep, potential benefits that may be facilitated through multiple neurologically mediated pathways. Our findings support the biological plausibility of complex benefits from chiropractic intervention that is not limited to simple neuromusculoskeletal outcomes and open new avenues for future research, specifically the exploration and mapping of the precise neural pathways and networks influenced by chiropractic adjustment.

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A mind-body approach for precompetitive anxiety in power-lifters: 2 case studies

Abstract: Neuro Emotional Technique may have helped these power-lifters control emotional arousal and precompetitive anxiety. However, caution is warranted when using these results to draw conclusions or when extrapolating these results to other settings.

Cited by 14 publications

References 40 publications

Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: two randomised-order blinded studies

Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: two randomised-order blinded studies

Talking through your Wrists: Using Nonverbal Cues to Assess Mind-Body Congruence in a Chiropractic Care Setting

Vertebral Subluxation and Systems Biology: An Integrative Review Exploring the Salutogenic Influence of Chiropractic Care on the Neuroendocrine-Immune System

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