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- From: dpipes@spica.srg (Dave Pipes x4552)
- Subject: Re: Kinesiology (Re: Pick this experiment apart, please!
- Organization: wow, look at all the headers!
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:30:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.173017.3613@srg.srg.af.mil>
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- References: <zlsiida.19@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <8AUG199216114098@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> <1992Aug10.193504.17717@lonex.rl.af.mil>
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- In article <1992Aug10.193504.17717@lonex.rl.af.mil> jft@lonex.rl.af.mil (James F. Tims) writes:
- >In article <8AUG199216114098@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:
- >>In article <zlsiida.19@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>, zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes...
- >>>In article <1992Aug05.182707.2856@srg.srg.af.mil> dpipes@spica.srg (Dave Pipes x4552) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>In article <zlsiida.1150@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
- >>>>>
- >>>>>This sounds like the new 'science' of kinesiology
- >>>
- >>>>Oh, man don't say this! Kinesiology is a reputable science which concerns
- >>>
- >>>Then somebody in UK is mis-using the term
- >>>(and Mensans are lapping it up) [the mis-used version, that is]
- >>
- >>Are you sure they aren't speaking of "applied kinesiology"? There
- >>
- >>Jim Lippard Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- >>Dept. of Philosophy Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
- >>University of Arizona
- >>Tucson, AZ 85721
- >
- >This is starting to trouble me. Is there such a thing as kinesiology,
- >or do you mean kinesthesiology?
- >
- >--
- >jft
-
- Okay, let me restate. Kinesiology is the study of the physics and mechanics
- of biological motion, generally as applied to humans. My wife has a degree
- in this from the University of Maryland and uses her knowledge in studies of
- reptitive motion injuries in a physical therapy setting. She did not have to
- learn anything about acupuncture, chiropractic, aromatherapy, homeopathy or
- the like to get her degree. The coursework is physics and biology, with
- applied stuff in sports medicine.
-
- Applied kinesiology, near as I can tell, is a way for chiropracters to sound
- like they know what they are talking about. It involves the hand-pulling
- business described earlier. Given that classical chiropratic involves
- disbelief of the germ theory of disease and attributes all illnesses to
- misalignments of the the bones, usually the spine, I am not about to go to
- one of these charlatans and ask him about it. I put it on a par with the
- "neuro-Linguistic programming" idiocy (I am a linguist by training...).
-
- Kinesthesiology would be a study of the sense mediated by end organs in the
- limbs and extremeties - ie, of how your body senses the relationship of its
- parts to one another. I don't know whether this is really a large field.
-
- What do you understand kinesthesiology to be?
-
-
- David Pipes
- robear@digex.com
-