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“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.

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.

Coordinate term: homophony