HLTKIN002 — Conduct indicator muscle monitoring
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59 assessable components: 3 elements (18 performance criteria), 11 performance evidence and 30 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Prepare self and client for muscle monitoring
- 1.1Provide accurate information to client about scope of muscle monitoring and the relationship between tester and the person being tested
- 1.2Establish client willingness from indicator muscle response, plus written and verbal consent
- 1.3Complete checks on own readiness according to modality procedure
2 Establish indicator muscle
- 2.1Place chosen indicator muscle into correct starting position and apply stabilisation that supports both client and practitioner
- 2.2Demonstrate to client the direction in which pressure will be applied and the muscle’s range of motion
- 2.3Use clear verbal cues to ensure the client is ready for monitoring
- 2.4Apply gentle progressive pressure appropriate to the muscle being monitored and the client’s ability to respond
- 2.5Use techniques that avoid muscle fatigue when specific muscle is subject to ongoing monitoring
- 2.6Recognise muscle facilitation and inhibition and the relationship to different aspects of the prime mover
- 2.7Use a level of pressure that allows for the indicator muscle response to be recognised, making judgments about rate and speed based on client responses and own experience
- 2.8Request and observe feedback from the client regarding level of comfort
- 2.9Modify monitoring method in light of client’s feedback.
3 Apply muscle monitoring pre-checks
- 3.1Identify and balance the muscle’s ability to lock and unlock according to modality procedure
- 3.2Identify and balance neurological disorganisation according to modality procedure
- 3.3Check and balance energy function of central meridian for normal flow according to modality procedure
- 3.4Check and balance hydration according to modality procedure
- 3.5Check and balance ionisation according to modality procedure
- 3.6Select and follow procedures for other modality specific pre-checks
Performance evidence
- conducted indicator muscle monitoring on at least 60 different people, including men, women, young people and elders, including:
- demonstrated lock and unlock on indicator muscles
- corrected muscle response when test produces unlock response
- used indicator muscle monitoring for physical, emotional or biochemical challenges
- used all limbs on both left and right side of the body with client in supine and prone positions
- integrated information from practitioner and client perspectives, evidenced by:
- use of appropriate level of pressure
- nature of own posture
- enhanced communication and connection with client
- pace of monitoring
- had own muscles monitored by at least 10 different people
Knowledge evidence
- relationship between client and self:
- as one circuit
- importance of neutrality of tester
- terminology of muscle monitoring in kinesiology:
- indicator/indicator change or lock/unlock not weak/strong
- hold not resist
- firm monitoring not strength testing
- factors that affect establishment of the indicator muscle response, including:
- circuit locating
- switching/overload
- central and governing meridians
- hydration
- neurological perspectives on the roles of conscious and subconscious aspects of muscle monitoring
- information from the practitioner’s perspective that informs muscle monitoring, including:
- mechanics of muscles:
- prime movers
- synergist, antagonists and fixator muscles
- neurological circuits controlling muscle function - spinal reflexes
- control of muscle proprioception - muscle spindle cells
- golgi tendon apparatus
- emotional/mental connectivity of muscles
- biochemical connectivity of muscles
- muscle recruitment of synergist or other muscles
- information from the client’s perspective that informs muscle monitoring:
- sensing of change between lock, unlock and vice versa
- role of mental/emotional resource created by thoughts and feelings
- importance of own experience of muscle monitoring to inform practice and the role experience plays in achieving consistent results
- differences between information from the practitioner and client perspectives
- ways to educate clients for awareness of indicator muscle responses
- kinesiology techniques to clear inhibited and over-facilitated muscles
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What does an assessment tool for HLTKIN002 need to cover?
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