When a person first experiences Applied Kinesiology manual muscle testing (we call it AK) they are more than a little surprised that some muscle that appears to be initially strong and locking can suddenly and totally weaken with little or no understood reason. AK muscle testing gives the skillful AK Doc a magnificent tool to find many things that are either difficult or nearly impossible to find otherwise by muscle testing. AK muscle testing literally allows for an energetic connection with the “Innate Intelligence” of the body.
Many, if not all, philosophies of natural health care include the concept of an Innate Intelligence that exists within the body. This Innate Intelligence is the life force that animates the body while it is alive, and enables the body to adapt to a constantly changing and often toxic environment. If something is happening in the body, the Innate is responsible for it. It is brilliant. The Innate always knows exactly what it’s doing. We usually don’t.
The term AK as it is used here, refers to the use of manual muscle testing to measure the body’s response to just about anything in the body. This extraordinarily useful phenomenon was first discovered by Dr. George Goodheart in 1964. Applied Kinesiology is a tool that can enable a practitioner to literally “ask questions” of a patient’s body.
AK muscle testing is the foundation of everything I evaluate for in my office. I use AK to find:
- Subluxations (misalignment of bones in the body that we adjust in Chiropractic)
- Muscle weakness that destabilizes the alignment of those bones, how and where to apply deep muscle work to restore proper muscle function to provide long term stabilization for the alignment of the joints
- Food allergies that dramatically affect health in many ways
- General nutrition needs; including which particular nutritional product and even how many per day of that product that the body needs to replenish a nutritionally depleted state
- Loss of optimal organ system health and function; and strategies of nutriceutical interventions to best restore health and function to any and every organ system in the body.
- Energetic (emotional) factors (blocks) that get in the way of our best efforts to maximize our life’s dreams and aspirations.
I have 13 years of experience using AK, along with many hundreds of hours of training in a newly emerging field of science and research called Functional Medicine. I have innovated many treatment techniques, and have successfully treated the whole gamut of health challenges from the common cold to cancer. In this process, one must understand that we are NOT actively seeking out and treating disease; we are merely (merely?) improving the health of the body to facilitate the body’s own inherent healing powers.
My training and experience has shown me that to affect any health related challenge, we need to address several areas of the body;
- General nutritional deficiency status from lack of optimal diet; understanding that even some of the best foods come from soils that are depleted with nutrients
- Malabsorption from “Gut Dysbiosis” and the “Leaky Gut Syndrome”; where we are not able to take into our bodies the nutrients we do eat
- Toxicity from within and without; neurotoxic waste from the pathenogenic organisms in our gut that are absorbed into our bloodstream and toxins from the water we drink, the foods we eat and the air we breathe.
- Special needs because of the less desirable expression of the genetic messages (pleuripotentiality) encoded on the genes (phenotype) coming from all of the above
- Improved lifestyles include the “Magnificient 7”; the need to Eat Right, Think Right, Drink Right, Move Right, Talk Right, Poop Right and Sleep Right!
My Chiropractic education gives me a complete understanding of the functioning of the body (on par with a medical education) and the license and scope of practice to function as a physician.
My training in Functional Medicine gives me the additional understanding through new and developing research of how the body works together in health and disease and has shown us the nutriceutical products (formulations of vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids and enzymes) that support health and function.
Functional Medicine integrates diagnosis, signs, symptoms, and evidence of clinical imbalances into a comprehensive approach. This approach focuses on functionality at many levels, rather than a single treatment for a single diagnosis. It should be our goal to provide a true proactive and prevention-based health care system as opposed to an after-the-fact disease care system. We provide a model of wellness; the missing foundation to a health care system designed to treat illness.
My training in Applied Kinesiology gives me the ability to put this all together into a system of analysis to create a game plan of treatment to most effectively and efficiently restore health.
AK is a highly innovative and indispensable tool to obtain the most complete and accurate picture of what the body needs to regain function and to restore health. AK gives us the uncommon ability to devise a specific and comprehensive program of vitamins, minerals, and/or herbal formulas FOR YOUR INDIVIDUAL BODY!
This Philosophy of treatment will restore optimal body function; Giving the Highest Assurance of Health, Vitality and Years of Disease-Free Living.
