How Kinesiology works

The muscles tell us what is happening in the body.

Precision muscle monitoring techniques are applied to identify & correct energy blockages within the body. Using muscle-monitoring, a suitably qualified and trained kinesiology facilitator can identify, specific to you what has caused an imbalance, and why, and then apply appropriate techniques to restore balance and harmony. Once back on track, we can continue living with a better quality of life

The beauty of kinesiology, and its use of muscle monoring, is that you find out exactly what is applicable to you and your body.  Instead of  trying many different approaches to restore health and well-being to your life, and never quite knowing what is and isn't working;  muscle monitoring makes it possible to assess what exactly is right for you as the unique individual that you are.  No two people have the same life-story and in the same way, no two people have the same story behind whatever is causing discomfort or distress.  Muscle monitoring makes it possible to identify the unique story.

Muscle monitoring:

Muscle monitoring is a natural feedback system using an indicator muscle, which supplies information via the nerve pathways.  Kinesiology bypasses conscious thinking processes to isolate causal factors in the subconscious, body and etheric levels. Honouring this system enables the body to clear itself at its own enhanced rate and priority.

When we monitor the response of a muscle we place the muscle in a position that shortens the muscle:
E.g. The quadriceps (thigh muscles) function to pull the knee up towards the body, so when we muscle-test the quadriceps, we position the leg with the knee bent and pulled up towards the body.  Once the muscle is in contraction (short) we test towards extension (long, relaxed muscle) which, in the case of the quadriceps, is to straighten the leg again.

 By applying the correct degree of pressure to test integrity instead of strength, we find that the muscle either locks (stays easily, without effort in the contracted position) or unlocks (moves in the direction in which the pressure is applied)  If a muscle unlocks we know that we have detected an imbalance and we need to establish how to re-balance.

This principle can be applied to every muscle of the body and is used as the “in” to find out what is happening in the body.  When doing a treatment, kinesiologists usually use an arm muscle e.g. anterior deltoid, or brachioradialis.

               
Monitoring the brachioradialis muscles.               Monitoring the deltoid muscle.

There are several modalities now that use some form of muscle testing.  Many use the cruder forms that were developed years ago and can give misleading results. 

Accurate muscle testing always starts with checking the spindle cell mechanism in the belly of the muscle.  When we push the muscle fibres in the centre of the muscle together in the direction of the fibres, the brain receives a false message that the muscle is too contracted and must be relaxed.  So the action of pushing together the belly of the muscle should cause the muscle to unlock.  If it doesn't, then the muscle is "frozen"/ stuck or its natural actions are reversed and will not give accurate results when testing.  This situation MUST be remedied before further testing can continue.

The difference between Applied Kinesiology (what some physiotherapists and chiropractors use) and Specialised Kinesiology (what I do) is that I am using the integrity or lack of integrity of the muscle to guide me to the imbalances within the body and the Applied Kinesiologist is often testing the strength of the muscle.  Integrity and strength are very different:  one can have integrity with little strength and one can have strength without integrity.   A strength test can tell us that a person goes to gym but not whether the neurological pathways between muscle and brain and back are working properly.