“I’m hoping I can be strong enough not to be hit by that ton of bricks, not to become dysfunctionally sad,” said Ms. Cafritz, 62, as she sat on a couch in her temporary home this week.

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Although the average practitioner of applied kinesiology may use only simple resistive testing of muscle groups, some rather sophisticated equipment such as the Cybex Dynamometer or the Bio--My kinesiometer can also be used to record electronically the amount of energy expended by a muscle group.