MEASURING DEVICES
One of the key aspects of this Research Project and subsequent Feasibility Study, was finding a method of comparing the arm and neck mobility before treatment had begun and after the final treatment. I needed a measuring device of some kind to prove a measurable change, to have something to record for the study.

Richard Waller of the Foot and Back Clinic, is a very skilled Podiatrist and Surgeon specializing in foot problems. He also lectures on a Degree Course at Nottingham University. He supplied me with a device called a Gravity Goniometer, a fancy name for an angle measurer. It has a pointer, which is pulled down by gravity and because of the involvement of gravity it can be considered very accurate.

We measured using landmarks on the body. We could say we were measuring the bio-mechanical movement of the shoulder joint. The same person was measured in the same way three times and on three different occasions and allowing for human changes. We found the device to be very accurate.