Muscle customization

Three screens behind the Muscle examination.

Regions

The body regions used to group muscles on the Muscle screen. A list with ID and Region name, Active flag, and edit, clone and delete actions; Show Inactive reveals retired regions. Every muscle must belong to at least one region, so add regions before muscles.

Muscle Test Muscles

The muscles that can be tested, listed with their Innervation, Motion and Organ:

Field	Notes
Muscle Name	Required
Region	The region(s) it is listed under on the Muscle screen. At least one is required
Innervation	The spinal nerve root level supplying the muscle, from standard anatomy references
Motion	The movement the muscle performs
Organ	The organ relationship, from applied kinesiology and acupressure correlations — optional, for practices that use it

Add, edit or clone a muscle from the actions on its row. Rather than deleting, mark a muscle Inactive; Show Inactive lists retired muscles so one can be restored by clearing the flag and saving.

Verbiage

The templates that build the muscle test report, chosen by Verbiage Template Group and Style:

Group	Writes
Opening	The sentence that introduces the test — examiner, patient, exam date, location
Dynamometer	Results measured with an instrument, with units
StrengthList	The strength grades, as a list
Findings	The findings, as sentences
AMACloser	The closing statement when the AMA grading scale is used

Each group can be written in List or Sentence style. Select a group and style, step through the iterations, and edit, add, weight or delete them.

The Merge Fields list offers [exam date], [patient name], [examiner], [location], [side], [muscle], [grade], [servity], [observation], [extended detail], [electric] and [units]. Select one and click Insert; the Test Area shows the result with sample data.

Whether a test reports Strong/Weak only or the detailed AMA grade, and the units for a dynamometer, are set on the Muscle screen's own preferences.