{"id":13927,"date":"2021-11-29T02:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowlative.com\/?p=13927"},"modified":"2022-04-26T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T09:19:12","slug":"binary-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowlative.com\/de\/binary-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Binary Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally the terms \u2018strong\u2019 (Strong Muscle) and \u2018weak\u2019 (Weak Muscle) were used to describe whether or not a muscle held during testing. This is probably as a result of kinesiology\u2019s origins in chiropractic, where muscle testing was undertaken to establish the physical integrity of muscles.
As many kinesiologists are using the muscle test as an Indicator Muscle (IM) (of the state of a meridian, stress, energy imbalances, etc.) using the term \u2018weak\u2019 is inappropriate: the muscle response is what it is, giving information about what is going on for the person and helping the practitioner establish what needs to be done for the client.\u00a0 Other terms are now more generally used to avoid this negative connotation, such as: <\/p>\n