by Knowlative s.l. | Jul 8, 2021 | Vocabulary
The Kidney Main Channel is the Yin channel associated with Water Element (水 shuǐ). Known as the ‘Minister of Power’, the kidney is regarded as the body’s most important reservoir of essential energy. The original prenatal energy (yuan qi) which forms...
by Knowlative s.l. | Jul 8, 2021 | Vocabulary
The tone or tension of a muscle is the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles, or the muscle’s resistance to passive stretch during resting state. It helps to maintain posture and declines during REM sleep. If a sudden pull or stretch occurs,...
by Knowlative s.l. | Jul 8, 2021 | Vocabulary
See Normotonic Muscle.
by Knowlative s.l. | Jul 8, 2021 | Vocabulary
A Normotonic muscle is a muscle that responds in a balanced way to Muscle Response Testing (MRT). It is nor an Hypotonic Muscle nor an Hypertonic Muscle, it has a normal Tone. The evaluation of tone performed with Muscle Response Test is functional and therefore...
by Knowlative s.l. | Jul 8, 2021 | Vocabulary
A “Weak” muscle is a Hypotonic Muscle. In Knowlative we try to avoid as much as possible the use of “weak” referred to a muscle because the term is inprecise and misleading. With Muscle Response Test, we are not assessing the strength of a muscle.
