Applied Kinesiology

When you’re healing, your muscles can help or hinder the process. You may have spasms that just never seem to stay away for long. Applied Kinesiology diagnoses and corrects spasm and muscle imbalance that can keep you in pain. Balanced muscles hold the corrections we make until damaged ligaments can strengthen and stabilize your back. Applied Kinesiology is also your body’s built-in diagnostic tool, so we can check at each visit and correct today’s problems, not what existed when you first came in.

• Relief of muscle spasm  When you strain a muscle, sensors in the muscle called spindle cells are overstretched. They then give incorrect information to the nervous system, as if the muscle was too loose. As the body tries to correct this perceived problem, it sets up a condition called reflex spasm. The muscle becomes constantly tight; indeed, even if you can loosen it up with massage or heat, the tightness comes back as soon as you use the muscle.
• Correction of chronic pain  In addition, because of the way reflexes work at the spinal cord level, opposing muscles are turned off and functionally weak. This creates an unbalanced pull on the spine which will perpetuate problems until it's fixed.
• For Athletes  You work hard to make your muscles strong and supple, and to increase their endurance. You also want them to be working efficiently, not fighting one another. You want them to be balanced, making the most of your hard-won fitness. Applied Kinesiology can help.
• A conversation with the body  Muscle testing takes advantage of the body's built-in system of priorities. We test an indicator muscle with an amount of directed pressure which is normally easy to hold. The test becomes impossible when a problem is slightly exacerbated by pressing it further into trouble, because the alarm reaction of the nervous system becomes a higher priority than holding the indicator muscle. This allows me to ask the body directly about what is going on now- and get clear answers.
• For even more information follow this link to the International College of Applied Kinesiology homepage.