Manual Muscle Testing

Applied Kinesiology

In Applied Kinesiology, we are looking for the lock or unlock using light pressure.  I train the patient to hold their arm with the same resistance while using a group muscle test.  Then, when I stimulate an area that is out of balance, there is a temporary unlocking of the muscle. I am communicating with the patients Central Nervous System—the brain which connects to all the muscles, organs and acupuncture meridians in the body.  I usually must recheck that the patient is holding the same, because sometimes they get relaxed, and their muscles will go weak for no reason.  So I must go back to retrain them to resist so I can trust the outcome.  Using this light force muscle testing, I can work all day without fatiguing myself or my patients and get accurate information.

For joint or spinal problems, I can do a slight torque one way or the opposite.  If you start with a strong lock, if I am torqueing the joint in the way it wants to be, with nerves and muscles happy, the muscle will stay strong.  If I torque it in the opposite direction, making the problem even slightly worse, the muscle will not lock.  The nervous system is saying “NO don’t do that, it will make me worse!”  I can isolate and test the exact alignment the body prefers in the thumb joint, the elbow, the knee, the ankle, and individual vertebra.  I can’t imagine treating all these joints without muscle testing as a guide! 

I have studied with the BEST OF THE BEST.  I have learned from my mentors that muscle testing isa method of communicating with a person’s nervous system about what can help a problem, what is not so important, and where to start first.

Best of the Best 

Dr. Alan Beardall was a preeminent Applied Kinesiology doctor who realized that the usual methods used in A.K. (here is a problem, here is something that can help) were limited and not comprehensive enough. In his brilliance, he envisioned the body as the ultimate computer that has a billion processes going on at any one time. He devised a system he called CLINICAL KINESIOLOGY to organize and be able to talk to the body. He said the body has programs it is running all the time. It can tell us which program we should look at first. And he developed a unique system of communications with the body using HAND MODES or mudras.

We are electromagnetic beings!!! That is why lightening is attracted to us, why MRI pictures are much more detailed and accurate than x-rays. Our electromagnetic field does not end at our skin.  Dr. Beardall in his brilliance discovered we could talk to our patient’s bodies by using HAND MODES in their electromagnetic field, which will change their muscle test and allow us to figure out what is going on with them. 

He developed a system of hand modes where we can ask the patient’s body, is this important or is this more important?  One of his hand modes is PRIORITY MODE.  You ask a question first, then ask WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT!! 
We should do that FIRST.  Without these methods, doctors are just making educated guesses based on what they learned in school.  That is still guessing. 

He was the most influential doctor in my career, I have used his work daily and nothing yet has surpassed his work.  He died in about 1988 from a car crash in England where he went to work with his friend Dr. Richard Holding, D.O. who taught at the Royal College in London Craniosacral Treatment, and was inspired by Dr. Beardall to teach. Dr. Beardall had him come to America to teach his group of patients and he is my main teacher of craniosacral therapy. At the time, none of the osteopaths wanted to teach chiropractors how to do craniosacral.  Dr. Beardall and Dr. Holding decided they would co=teach using both of their advanced trainings while integrating both together.  I still use both together and can use hand modes to determine which cranial bone problem is the priority.

Dr. Beardall was the most influential doctor in my entire career.  I have used his work daily and nothing has yet surpassed his brilliant expertise.  I still have his work in my office which I refer to if I am stuck on a patient’s problems.  I was the last patient he treated in his office before he left for England where he was working with Dr. Richard Holding D.O. He put me on his referral list before leaving so I could treat his patients.  THAT WAS AN HONOR. After his death, there was a gathering of many great doctors who had studied with him. They started collaborating in their own research and then taught seminars to us followers trying to integrate their research.  Their research separately was great but their attempt at integrating failed.

Sr. Alan Beardall was an innovator and a synthesizer of great research. Nobody after him, in my opinion, has been able to duplicate what he has done.

Dr. Scott and Deb Walkers who developed NET, is another doctor who did a comprehensive evolution of AK, focusing primarily on the emotional aspect  of disease, both the *life-problems)  part of disease and the physical. The Walkers ability to find, focus and release the emotional energetic components of our lives, our pain, our stuck areas is UNSURPASSED!!! He and his doctors are still teaching and there is nothing else that releases emotional blocks as well. See NETMINDBODY.COM He was a contemporary and colleague of Dr. Beardalls.

Dr. John Brimhhall is another major mentor of mine.  He was a colleague of Dr. Brimhall and Dr. Walker.  He has developed his own comprehensive system using muscle testing and he is still innovating, integrating, and figuring out What Works* and still teaching seminars, although he is no longer practicing.  

I am certified with NET for their methods and Dr. John Brimhall for his. I would have been certified with Dr. Brimhall, had he not died tragically.  It was such a loss to the world and the healing community.  I was the last person he treated as he was leaving for England, and he put my name on his answering machine as a referral for his patients.