Since 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and European guidelines have recommended manual therapy as first- line treatment for MSK ill-health. Manual therapy is an approach where Practitioners of Manual Therapy (PoMT) use hands-on data acquisition and analysis (HODA-A) as a measurement instrument for research, diagnosis, prognosis, and a tool for treatment. Yet manual therapy techniques fail all reliability studies, therefore without proof that hands-on is a valid and reliable method of data collection, this very much limits the conclusions that can be drawn from using the hands in MSK healthcare.
To test HODA-A concurrent validity a pilot study was chosen for multiple reasons: (1) there are currently no previous concurrent validity studies on HODA-A, therefore, there are no known effective experimental methodologies, (2) for achieving the best practices the experimental methodology needed to be iterative, and (3) to gain a preliminary estimate of whether HODA-A produces data that agree with the gold standard test, 3D Mocap.
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