Applied Kinesiology Research Published In The Past Year

 Two New Applied Kinesiology Textbooks (2nd Editions In Color!)

 

1)    Applied Kinesiology Essentials: The Missing Link in Healthcare significantly updates the scientific rationales and evidence-base for AK demonstrating -- in light of evidence based medicine -- the importance of the manual muscle test in physical, emotional, and nutritional diagnosis.  

2)   Applied Kinesiology: Clinical Techniques for Lower Body Dysfunctions presents a comprehensive “one-stop” textbook on the AK approach to lower body pain and dysfunction. This text provides a detailed, illustrated, and evidence-based discussion of the relationship between muscle weakness and lower body pain and dysfunction. It describes the normal anatomy and physiology as well as the most common disorders of the lower body. We believe it will be the most extensive work ever published on the manipulative approach to foot and ankle and peripheral nerve entrapment syndromes of the lower body.



 

Both of these books are available at

www.TheGangasasPress.com

 



In the past year,

 the following research has been published by the International College of Applied Kinesiology

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Applied Kinesiology: Distinctions in its Definition and Interpretation, 2012.

http://www.bodyworkmovementtherapies.com/
article/S1360-8592(12)00122-2/abstract.

Conservative Chiropractic Management of Urinary Incontinence Using Applied Kinesiology: A Retrospective Case-Series Report, 2012.

http://www.journalchiromed.com/article/S1556-3707(12)00002-8/abstract

Physical causes of anxiety and sleep disorders: a case report, 2012.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22314717 

A narrative review of manual muscle testing and implications for muscle testing research.

http://www.journalchiromed.com/article/S1556-3707(11)00090-3/abstract

Association of manual muscle tests and mechanical neck pain: Results from a prospective pilot study, 2011.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21419360.

Chiropractic management of a 30-year-old patient with Parsonage-Turner syndrome.

http://www.journalchiromed.com/article/S1556-3707(11)00156-8/abstract

Conservative management of post-surgical urinary incontinence in an adolescent: A case history, 2011. 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21649458.

Inter-Examiner Reliability of Manual Muscle Testing of Lower Limb Muscles without the Ideomotor Effect, 2011.

http://www.chiroindex.org/?search_page=articles&action=&articleId=21711

There are now more than

55 research articles on AK methods

Indexed on PubMed,

the highest rated evidence-base in the world

Dr. Goodheart's Legacy Is Up To Us!!

  

BigPharma and the local opposition

Ask Dr. Scott – August 

From The Pueblo PULP • http://www.pueblopulp.com/2012/08/01/ask-dr-scott-august/

Ask Dr. Scott

Q: I am 65 years old and I was given a pain reliever by my doctor for my arthritis a few months ago, but this raised my blood pressure. At my next visit, I was prescribed several medicines for hypertension, which came with even more side effects and I feel even sorer than before. What can I do?

A: Prescription drugs are now marketed in every single corner of American society — from the Cartoon Network to nursing homes to the nightly news. Drug company advertisers apparently believe that Americans will swallow the panaceas offered in the six drug commercials that regularly accompany each evening’s news. Medicine ads sprout from magazines, billboards, scoreboards, racecars and more – the same places where cigarette ads of the 1960s and 1970s appeared.

Americans spent $320 billion on prescription drugs last year, more than they did on gasoline or fast food. They paid twice as much for their prescription medicine that year as they spent on either higher education or new automobiles. Americans spend more on medicines than do all the people of Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina combined.

Almost 65% of the nation now takes drugs available only by prescription. Children line up at schools to get their daily doses. Pharmacies stay open 24-hours to meet our demand. In 2010 Walgreens opened drugstores in America at the rate of one every day. Dozens of supermarkets in Colorado have added a pharmacist and prescription counter, and pharmacies are routinely built inside the megastores of the nation like Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart.

The Center for Disease Control (2011) reports that 47.9% of Americans have used at least one prescription drug in the past month; another 21.4% use three or more prescription drugs in the past month, and finally another 10.5% use five or more prescription drugs in the past month.

When considering your own use of prescription drugs:

1) Unless causes of poor health and diminished function are dealt with, drugs will fail in the long run – even if they are used sensibly.

2) If the causes of your arthritis and hypertension lie in poor nutrition and diet, then “cure” lies in better eating and nutrition.

3) If problems emerge from a lack of exercise, then the “cure” lies in daily, pleasurable physical activity.

4) In the short term it may make sense to use drugs to save lives. But they must be used sensibly, cautiously, appropriately and not haphazardly and excessively as they are now.

5) Even when used correctly as instructed, prescription medications can cause serious long-term changes to occur that can be more devastating than the disease itself. A single class of new medicines promoted to treat irregular heartbeats (Tambocor® and Enkaid®) is estimated to have killed 50,000 Americans in just a few years. That tragedy in the 1980s showed that heavily marketed medicines could kill the equivalent of an entire city the size of Castle Rock with almost no public outcry if the drugs caused a type of death that was common in the population, like cardiac arrest. Remember the anti-inflammatory Vioxx®, estimated to have caused 139,000 heart attacks in which 30-40% of these patients died? More than 50 other drugs have been considered so dangerous they have had to be pulled from pharmacy shelves in past few decades alone.

6) Each of us has the power to decide whether to maintain healthy lifestyles, and each of us can, if we wish, undertake to incorporate health-enhancing practices, rather than disease-causing ones, into our daily life.

Dr. Scott Cuthbert is a chiropractor at Chiropractic Health Center in Pueblo, Colorado, as well as the author of two textbooks and multiple research articles. PuebloChiropracticCenter.com.

George J. Goodheart, Jr. and John Diamond....and Dr. Sigmund Freud

Somatization – mind and muscles

John Diamond is a psychiatrist who, after he met Dr. Goodheart, became interested in the psychological and the psychiatric aspects of Applied Kinesiology, “as I realized it could give us instant access to the unconscious.” Just as Sigmund Freud (1900) revealed how dreams may prove to be a “royal road” to the unconscious mind, Dr. Diamond has shown how manual muscle testing during psychological questioning functions as another window to hidden motives and emotions. This is what makes Diamond’s work so congruent with psychoanalysis and applied kinesiology.

The principles of MMT developed in Applied Kinesiology were adapted by John Diamond in his book Behavioral Kinesiology, (Diamond, 2012, 1985, 1979) and form the basis of contemporary ‘energy psychology’, a popularized form of these psychosocial approaches that originated in Applied Kinesiology. Dr. Diamond has published significant amounts of theoretical and outcomes research related to the diagnosis (using the MMT) and treatment (using psychological, meridian, nutritional, homeopathic, and manual methods) of psychosocial disorders. A review of his writings and research should be made by anyone wishing to expand their knowledge in the area of psychosocial dysfunction. (Diamond, 2012, 1985, 1979)



John Diamond, MD and George J. Goodheart, Jr., DC
Founders of Behavioral and Applied Kinesiology

Dr. John Diamond was the first medical clinician-scientist in the psychological field to use and scientifically write about the meridian system’s influence on human psychological behavior and the link between the acupuncture meridians and emotions. Diamond is a psychiatrist and past president of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, and was critical in bringing many leaders in the field of C.A.M. to Goodheart’s attention, as well as bringing Goodheart’s work to many leaders in the C.A.M. community. Diamond's pioneering concepts, together with some of the concepts developed by Goodheart in Applied Kinesiology, form the basis on which a new method of holistic psychology developed, and from his work the new field of “energy psychotherapy” emerged. (Diamond, 1985, 1979)

Dr. Goodheart said “Dr. John Diamond has been a friend and physician colleague for over thirty years. He alone deserves a Nobel Prize for his accurate observations on the acupuncture meridians and emotions.” From his initial work Dr. Diamond has spent 35 years developing methods of diagnosing and treating what he calls “The Acupuncture Emotional System”, associating the major positive and negative emotions with each meridian and thereby offering one possible pillar for psychosomatic medicine. In his view the acupuncture system is the communicating link between the emotions, the organs, and the muscles.

Dr. John Diamond demonstrates "psychological challenge" as used in AK
with his own manual muscle test

Diamond’s work also had a strong influence on the renowned osteopath Robert Fulford, D.O., with whom he corresponded. Fulford found Diamond’s book Life Energy essential, (1985) and his discussion of birth trauma were critical to Dr. Fulford's development of methods to release cranial injuries in children at birth. Diamond relates issues of fear, hate, and envy that may accompany the infant’s leaving the comfort of the womb. As a whole Diamond's work suggests that the body and the psyche progress in parallel during the developmental process, and that interventions aimed at improving the emotional-adaptive response to the birth experience and life traumas is fundamental for the patient's development and well-being.

Diamond was instrumental in the meetings between Dr. Goodheart and Dr. Willie May, and the salutary results from this interaction have been extensively published in the biomedical and chiropractic professions.

AK and craniomandibular function and dentistry

 

Diamond's philosophy of life as a healer
is an elegant guide to the life-of-the-spirit
that should be lived for physicians

In applied kinesiology and behavioral kinesiology,
the importance of the mental side of the triad of health
is never overlooked

A brief summary a few of the contributions of Dr. Diamond are as follows:

• Dr. Diamond identified the links between specific meridians and emotions.
• Dr. Diamond discovered how muscle testing of meridian, acupuncture, and alarm points could be used to identify the meridian imbalance underlying an emotional state.
• Dr. Diamond discovered how meridian imbalance may occur in layers, and how these may correspond to layers of emotions. Thus, he used muscle testing to identify the sequence of meridians that required treatment in relation to a particular emotional problem. The complexity of the human psyche was found to be reflected in the complex adaptations made by the human muscle and meridian system.
• Dr. Diamond suggested that manual muscle testing could be extended to exploring emotional truth, as well as the impact of all manner of mental stimuli upon the measurable human muscular system.
• Dr. Diamond discovered how meridians that are out of balance may be corrected by specific affirmations.
• Thus, Dr. Diamond discovered an efficient way of identifying how the meridian system is out of balance in relation to an emotional problem, fear or phobia, and how to correct this.
• Dr. Diamond also identified profound obstacles to healing, such as the “reversal of the body’s morality” (what is called “psychological reversal” in AK).”
• Diamond’s work led to profound elaborations on the use of the manual muscle test and AK approaches in the works of Roger Callahan (“Thought Field Therapy”), Gary Craig (“Emotional Freedom Techniques”), and many diverse but associated systems of treatment in the field of “energy psychology” and “kinesiology”.

Additionally, Dr. Diamond is a profound instructor on the usefulness of the arts to personal human development and healing.

His book on the poet William Blake is recommended.



“The most accurate diagnosing tool you can have is in your office -- YOUR PATIENT, with Innate intelligence the body language combined with muscle testing.” 

-- George J. Goodheart, Jr.

Selected from the

Textbooks Now Available For Sale at

 

https://www.thegangasaspress.com/:

2nd Editions  are now available
AT $30 OFF
IN COLOR!

 

Drs. George J. Goodheart, Jr. and Leon Chaitow

A practicing naturopath, osteopath, and acupuncturist in the United Kingdom (now semi-retired and writing books in Corfu), with over forty years clinical experience, Dr. Chaitow is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. (Now the official journal of the International College of Applied Kinesiology)

Dr. Chaitow was invited to lecture to the ICAK USA in Detroit, 8 months before Dr. Goodheart passing in 2008.

Leon Chaitow, 2006

            In Chaitow’s books,  Goodheart’s and applied kinesiology’s methods are also seen as precursors to a “universal manipulative approach” that Chaitow suggests will cross professional boundaries and offer the safest and most versatile methodology for the treatment of patients with acute and chronic illness.

            In at least 5 of Dr. Chaitow’s books the work of Goodheart and applied kinesiology is presented and praised.

Ø  Clinical Application of Neuromuscular Techniques, Volume 1, 2^nd Edition: The Upper Body (2008)

Ø  Naturopathic Physical Medicine (2008)

Ø  Cranial Manipulation: Theory and Practice, 2^nd Edition: Osseous and Soft Tissue Approaches (2005)

Ø  Clinical Application of Neuromuscular Techniques, Volume 2: The Lower Body (2002)

Ø  Soft-Tissue Manipulation (1988)

See three new Applied Kinesiology textbooks which bring AK into the era of Evidence-Based Medicine.

2nd Editions now available IN COLOR!

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