To me it's a conversation with the body...
Applied Kinesiology is a diagnostic tool where we can assess the root cause of a patient’s problems to anything from structural, chemical, emotional, or even electromagnetic. This is achieved using manual muscle testing. MMT is our window into the human physiology, telling us anything from your hip is displaced to you ate something bad for lunch. These are not test of an individual’s strength but rather a test of their nervous system. A test of their brain. AK was discovered by Dr. George Goodheart Jr. in 1964. To this, he found three things, three very important things: 1.) a muscle’s function can change rapidly; 2.) a diagnostic tool called therapy localization; and 3.) a muscle-organ relationship. Everything else in AK was discovered by many other great doctors and scientist, but Goodheart, being the genius that he was, found away the ask the body what it needs, when it needs it, and how it needs it. Muscle testing is a universal language that everyone speaks.
With this website I wish to share not only my journey but also tips and tricks that can help any health care clinician improve their practice.
That place to learn about Applied Kinesiology and Manual Muscle Testing
"What are we, this species known as man, Homo sapiens, human beings, people? A mass of electrically charged cells swimming in a vessel made up predominantly of water and billions of electrically charged cells called DNA, bones, muscle, organs, glands, hormones, a highly intricate soup of sorts. We don’t have to think to make every bodily function, function. Our brain does that for us all thru an intricate wiring system known as the nervous system. Due to this complexity of the human body, there needs to be a comprehensive system of diagnosis and treatment." – Dr. Robert Kay
“With receptor based diagnostic challenges, we are capable of triggering all types of structural, chemical and mental inputs into the nervous system and monitoring the muscle testing outcomes of these challenges. The muscle testing outcomes, which we describe as strength and weakness, are really representative of what is happening at the anterior horn motor neurons, the alpha and gamma motor neurons which drive muscle activity. A summation of all of the inputs into these anterior horn motor neurons creates a central integrative state which is either excitatory and neuron fires off an action potential, or inhibition and no action potential occurs. The inputs into these anterior horn neurons may originate from local reflex inputs or from neural pathways which descend from higher levels of the brainstem and brain. With our receptor based diagnostic challenges, we add other specific inputs from the receptors we are activating. And finally, when we perform muscle testing with a patient, we get additional inputs to the anterior horn which are initiated by the patient in response to our instruction. The summation of all of these inputs (central integrative state of the anterior horn motor neurons) results in the muscle testing outcomes of strong or weak on which we base our therapies. And then we perform our receptor based therapies structurally, chemically, and even mentally (with mental activity we add structural correction of adjustment, acupuncture, or neurovascular points to create normal afferentation associated with the mental stress.) by restoring afferentation based on our efforts to normalize inputs from the mental receptors and other receptors we can normalize the central integrative state of all neurons, throughout the Central Nervous System, back to their most optimal function. That is a summary of what we do.” – Dr. Walter Schmitt Jr.
“Muscle testing is the interaction of mind with matter utilizing quantum events which occur in neurons.” – Dr. Timothy Francis
