What occurs during a typical office visit?
Applied Kinesiology is a system that evaluates structural, chemical, and mental aspects of health using manual muscle testing alongside conventional diagnostic methods. The essential premise of applied kinesiology that is not shared by mainstream medical theory is that every organ dysfunction is accompanied by a weakness in a specific corresponding muscle, the viscerosomatic relationship. Treatment modalities relied upon by practitioners include spinal manipulation, myofascial, cranial and meridian therapies, clinical nutrition, and dietary counseling. A manual muscle test in AK is conducted by having the patient resist using the target muscle or muscle group while the practitioner applies a force. A smooth response is sometimes referred to as ‘a strong muscle’ and a response that was not appropriate is sometimes called a ‘weak response’. This is not a raw test of strength but rather a subjective evaluation of tension in the muscle and smoothness of response, taken to be indicative of
