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Selective muscle tension/Cyriax effectiveness - January 25, 2006 3:47:00 PM

Jeffre

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Does anyone have any good research on selective muscle tension testing/ Cyriax testing? It just hit me today that most of us use some type of this method, or were at least taught this way, but I have not seen any research on it. Also,if you don't use tension testing for differentiation of muscle/tendon/ligament injury what do you use?

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Re: Selective muscle tension/Cyriax effectiveness - January 25, 2006 7:35:00 PM

james097

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I have no idea if there is any research on selective tissue tension as in Cyriax. What I do know is that prior to James Cyriax there was virtually nothing else. Cyriax certainly changed my career as it did with most of my peers and influenced many. We were so young and enthusiastic. The Man ran teaching clinics at St Thomas's and from his house and clinic at 32 Wimpole Street. It was always my task,being the biggest to hang on to the patients feet when he did neck traction and manipulation. After visits we would return to the Army Pt Dept and have "bull sessions" well into the early hours practicing what we had been doing. It was his brass shingle on the railing that was different from the others in this medical street. It was polished with brasso every day and it was absolutely smooth, not one word could be made out! One big change from the present is that plenty parking was available on the street no charge, not even entering the city by car is free nowadays. James has two suits it seemed, one green and one red and an array of strange ties. His shoes were the most impressive, brown brogues with the letters JC on the toe caps. There was always speculation of whether they were his initials when he did something miraculous.
St Thomas's where Dr Cyriax taught was a female only school and the life span of a qualified female PT then was around 18 months so Orthopaedic Medicine in the PT world took some time to take hold. Those were the days!
Jim McGregor

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Re: Selective muscle tension/Cyriax effectiveness - January 26, 2006 1:28:00 AM

certMDT

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Display&dopt=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=8866270

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Display&dopt=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=8047559

That should be a good start.

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