| When I'm meeting new people at a social or a | | | | But if the HCl is given, it hides the indicator for a |
| networking event, I introduce myself as a Doctor of | | | | temporal bulge or other cranial fault. A cranial fault may |
| Chiropractic and an Applied Kinesiologist. Sometimes | | | | be causing entrapment of the Vagus nerve, thus |
| they have no idea what AK is and I fill them in. But | | | | causing hypochlorhydria that is responsible for the |
| most of the time, they will say something like "I had | | | | digestive problem in the first place. The proper |
| someone touch a spot on me and then pull down on | | | | approach is to correct the cranium and any other |
| my outstretched arm. It was weak. Then I held a bottle | | | | structural factor that is causing the hypochlorhydria. |
| of pills and was told I needed them. Is that Applied | | | | I then talk to the patient about their diet, what foods or |
| Kinesiology?" | | | | food combinations may be problematic for them and |
| This is one of the big abuses of muscle testing. | | | | what supplements and medications - over the counter |
| In Applied Kinesiology, muscles are related to | | | | & prescription that they may be taking and to |
| themselves and the joints they cross, their spinal | | | | keep a food diary in which the patient also notes any |
| innervation, their neuro-lympathic & neuro-vascular | | | | digestive problems. |
| points, the Chinese acupuncture meridian associated | | | | For example, the patient may have been advised to |
| with them and the organs/glands via the meridian | | | | take Tums in order to get calcium; unfortunately the |
| system. | | | | calcium carbonate in Tums is acting as an antacid and |
| So how does nutritional muscle testing work? First it is | | | | is adversely affecting the patient's ability to digest and |
| muscle specific, pulling down on an outstretched arm is | | | | absorb food (including calcium) Take the patient off the |
| not specific as it involves a number of muscles. And | | | | Tums and the HCL problem resolves. |
| holding a bottle in hand stimulates nothing in your brain | | | | I also talk to the patient about any emotional problems |
| except maybe a placebo effect. | | | | or stresses that may be affected them and we work |
| Here's an example: a patient comes in with a shoulder | | | | w/ emotional meridian releasing techniques that the |
| problem and upon examination I find that one of the | | | | patient can also do at home. |
| patient's internal rotators - the Pectoralis Clavicular | | | | On the next visit if the structural and emotional |
| Major is weak. | | | | interactions have cleared then I test for nutritional |
| The Pectoralis Clavicular is innervated by the lateral | | | | factors such as HCL, or food allergies/sensitivities The |
| pectoral nerve that comes from the 5th & 6th | | | | patient is tested by placing sample of either the |
| cervical spinal nerves, it is associated w/ the Stomach | | | | supplement or food in their mouth and having them |
| meridian and in Chinese five-element theory is | | | | chew in order to stimulate gustatory receptors in the |
| associated with worry. | | | | brain and then the Pectoralis is then re-tested to see if |
| Does the patient have a weak Pectoralis on one or do | | | | there is a change in the muscle strength. The patient is |
| both sides tested together come up weak - a possible | | | | then advised take whatever strengthened the indicator |
| sign of cranial faults that need to be fixed? Does the | | | | muscle and asked to note any changes in their food |
| patient have a history of digestive problems, heartburn, | | | | diary. |
| bloating, blenching, constipation? Is the patient | | | | If nutritional testing doesn't resolve the muscle |
| experiencing emotional worries? | | | | weakness, then the patient may be advised to have |
| If no, then I proceed w/ either stretching or toning the | | | | some standard testing done such as testing for H. |
| muscle, rubbing out the neuro-lymphatic and | | | | Pylori or anemia which can be affecting digestion such |
| neuro-vascular points for the muscles and seeing if the | | | | as iron, folic acid or B12 deficiencies. |
| meridian is involved and seeing if the C5-6 spinal | | | | On the following visit, the patient will continue to be |
| segments, the shoulder joints, clavicle or the sternum | | | | evaluated to see if the digestive problems have |
| (breastbone ) or the ribs need to be adjusted. I then | | | | resolved, if the structural and emotional indicators have |
| re-test the muscle to see if the problem is now fixed. | | | | resolved and when the patient no longer needs to take |
| If yes, I proceed with the above as correcting the | | | | the supplementation. |
| structural first sometime will help the digestive | | | | As you see, the proper use of applied kinesiology in |
| problems. A case in point is a patient with a lack of | | | | evaluating nutrition is made within the total framework |
| hydrochloric acid, indicated by bilateral pectoralis major | | | | of the triad of health - structural, emotional, chemical |
| weakness. Taking hydrochloric acid may clear the | | | | and includes both standard and kinesiologicial diagnostic |
| weakness. | | | | procedures that confirm the need for the nutrition. |