Applied Kinesiology and Children's Health

Dr. Mark Mathews is an old Applied Kinesiology buddy of Dr. Scott's. He and I have lectured to the same groups around the world and shared drinks all over the planet. Dr. Mathews primary focus (a subject on which he and I have written many different research papers) is Applied Kinesiology's influence upon children with learning difficulties, dyslexia, behavioral and emotional problems -- this is not nearly well enough known in our world today.

Dr. Mark Mathews has been working parti...cularly diligently in the United Kingdom to change this sad state of affairs for children's health.

Dr. Mathews was on the Chrissy B Show in the UK recently talking about the Sunflower Program – a disciplined, systematic and holistic program to help children with learning and behavioral difficulties using AK in association with other functional, complementary and alternative medical approaches. AK is used as a diagnostic and remedial tool to integrate the musculoskeletal, neurological, biochemical, mental and emotional aspects of health to facilitate balance and wellbeing for patients.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJiahpReTE&feature=player_embedded

 

 

Applied Kinesiology has shown in controlled clinical trials that it is one of the most effective approaches available in the world today for evaluating and treating the problems that children are suffering when they are not performing at their best and fulfilled by their daily lives.

http://www.jmptonline.org/article/S0161-4754(09)00198-5/abstract

http://www.chiroindex.org/?search_page=articles&...action&articleId=21346

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22027037

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

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19173743

http://www.townsendletter.com/July2007/kinesiology0707.htm

http://www.chiroindex.org/?search_page=articles&action&articleId=20712

http://www.chiroindex.org/?search_page=articles&action&articleId=20103

http://brainpotential.s3.amazonaws.com/Content/Dyslexia.pdf

Maykel W. Pediatric case history: cost effective treatment of block naso-lacrimal canal utilizing applied kinesiology tenets.
Int J AK and Kinesio Med, 2003;16:34.

Goodheart GJ. AK classic case management: Enuresis.
Int J AK and Kinesio Med, 2003;16: 22-23.

Mathews MO, Thomas E, Court L. Applied Kinesiology Helping Children with Learning Disabilities.
Int J AK and Kinesio Med, 1999;4.

Mathews MO, Thomas E. A pilot study on the value of applied kinesiology in helping children with learning difficulties.
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Applied Kinesiology analysis and treatment in multiple sclerosis

Applied Kinesiology methods permit us a way to test and specifically treat disorders of the central nervous system. We do not treat the illnesses themselves, but can achieve results on some of their consequences. Patients with this type of disease appreciate all the help we can offer them.

In this patient with Multiple Sclerosis for 3 decades, the inability to walk was significantly improved after several applied kinesiology sessions (addressing the structural, chemical, and psychosocial aspects of his condition).

https://www.facebook.com/icakusa/videos/vb.357750035183/10155667995055184/?type=2&theater



Applied Kinesiology: It's Past, Present, and Future

 

 

 

 

http://archive.theamericanchiropractor.com/20150701#!/28

 

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Applied Kinesiology Cranial Technique and Glaucoma

This is how it is done and WHY more physicians should possess these skills...!!

Much more on the neurology of the AK cranial treatment and the manual muscle test as a diagnostic tool for head-neck disorders is in the new textbook:

 

 

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Applied Kinesiology as a Clinical Prediction Rule for Craniosacral dysfunctions and headache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLi2Kwyoqw4

The most likely source for the Cranial Rhythmic Impulse or the Primary Craniosacral Respiratory Mechanism is the muscle system, the "Primary Machinery of Life."

Nutritional Assessment with Manual Muscle Testing

The human brain's Gustatory Motor System can be thought of as containing 2 stages.

The first stage is the sensory systems that feed into it (sense of smell, state of awareness, autonomic status, salivary state, etc.). These transform the individual gustatory sensory representations into the combined sense of flavor.

 

 

The second stage (which is measured in AK) is the action systems that draw on the full capacity of the human brain systems that generate and control our behavior.

The image here gives a better impression of the extensive amount of the human brain devoted to gustatory interpretation and creation of "flavor" and "taste". The true extent of the gustatory action system is revealed in the network of regions and connections that reflects the power of gustatory stimulation upon the brain.

 

The descending motor system that controls our muscles and glands begins at the highest level in the motor strip of the cerebral cortex. Just as there is a sensory homunculus representing the body surface -- with large areas devoted to the lips and tongue -- there is a corresponding motor homunculus with a similar enlargement of the lips and tongue -- THIS is where nutritional challenge occurs in the functional neurology approach of AK. It represents the larger numbers of cortical microcircuits devoted to receiving the sensory inputs and controlling the fine movements of the lips and tongue when we eat and drink.

 

 

Humans have a much more highly developed sense of flavor and taste because of the complex processing that occurs in the large human brain. A common misconception is that foods and nutrients contain flavors. Foods do contain the flavor molecules, but the flavors of those molecules are actually created by our brains after they are perceived by the gustatory and olfactory senses. The new science of neurogastronomy has described a uniquely human brain flavor system, one of the most extensive behavioral systems in the brain, creating perceptions, emotions, memories, consciousness, language, decisions, and motor programs, all centered on flavor.

 

 

 

The science of food and nutrition now begins in the brain, and shows not only how the brain receives the sensory stimuli of nutrition, but how in doing so the brain actively creates and responds to the sensation of flavor.

 

It should be recognized -- as Dr. Goodheart repeatedly pointed out -- that the only "pattern recognition device" for flavor and taste are the human organs of smell and taste, what we in AK call "olfactory" and "gustatory" challenge during AK nutritional testing.

 

 

Much more on the neurology of the manual muscle test as a diagnostic tool for nutritional disorders is in the new textbook:

 

 

Available Now at: https://www.thegangasaspress.com/

Salivary Hormone Levels and the Manual Muscle Test

http://www.townsendletter.com/Jan2015/adrenalstress0115.html

 

Is the manual muscle test as used in Applied Kinesiology a potential "Clinical Prediction Rule" for the presence of hormone imbalances in patients?

 

This study suggests that this is a possibility worthy of further investigation.