Saturday, July 27, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
So You'd Like to Become The Best Cranio-Sacral Clinician Possible?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/R3LGVLAVTPQEXN/ref=cm_sylt_byauthor_title_full_5
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| The Applied Kinesiology approach to cranial dysfunction is unique in making cranio-sacral diagnosis reliable, repeatable, and obvious for both the clinician and the patient. |
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Applied Kinesiology and Touch for Health
Dr. John Francis Thie
Founder of Touch for Health
Dr. Goodheart honored his former student Dr. Thie (left)
at the last Touch for Health seminar (2005)
that Dr. Thie could attend before his untimely passing.
(the 30th anniversary of Touch for Health’s founding)
Dr. Thie was the first Chairman of the ICAKUSA
Drs. Goodheart and Thie lecturing (to chiropractors only) in 1975
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| Dr. Thie lecturing to chiropractors only, 3rd Annual ICAKUSA meeting |
Wedding Applied Kinesiology with his own populist sentiments, in 1970 Dr. John Thie (the first chairman of the ICAKUSA) wanted the first-aid, reflex balancing and self-help elements of applied kinesiology to be available for the general public, while Dr. Goodheart wanted to continue teaching and developing Applied Kinesiology for professionals licensed to diagnose and treat patients. Dr. Thie realized that AK could be taught as a method of self-care for all people. Dr. Goodheart challenged Dr. Thie to write a textbook on AK for the public. This policy of teaching full-scope applied kinesiology only to physicians, and the various lay-systems derived from applied kinesiology operating in parallel in their respective fields, remains to this day.
Dr. Thie’s books on Touch for Health (the reflex and self-help methods of AK) have sold in excess of 500,000 copies. “No chiropractor has ever developed a patient education program that has had the influence that Touch for Health has.” (McDowall, 2005) Touch for Health caught the attention of many laymen and other health professionals in several disciplines, and spawned national and international workshops and certification programs. It has spread some of the AK methods (particularly the TCM, reflex, and emotional methodologies) to “hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people around the globe.” (Keating, 2005)
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| The Touch for Health textbook for lay-people has introduced portions of Applied Kinesiology methods to >500,000 kinesiologists around the world and millions of patients |
“John Thie’s vision was to develop a lay person support group [for Applied Kinesiology]like other professions had done (American Diabetes Association, American Cancer Association, Arthritis Foundation, and so on) with the ICAK doctors providing leadership and guidance about natural health methods and the lay part of the group supporting these efforts and spreading the word to other lay people and potential patients as other professions have so successfully done.” (Schmitt, 2010)
"John Thie had the most efficient AK office in the world. Touch for Health had developed out of his desire to make AK skills more efficient. He saw the reflex balancing of AK simple enough to educate his massage therapists into Kinesiotherapists. He would have 3-4 of them at a time in his large adjusting room doing the basic muscle balance on the patients and informing him of the muscles that wouldn’t balance. He would then do his work and complete the treatment. At the same time the chairs around the 7-8 adjusting tables would be full of patients waiting their turn. He would schedule a group of 10 patients every 30 minutes to arrive at the same time. They had the choice of watching each other getting their adjustment and balance or waiting for him in his private office. He catered to all needs.” (McDowall, 2005)
"John Thie had the most efficient AK office in the world. Touch for Health had developed out of his desire to make AK skills more efficient. He saw the reflex balancing of AK simple enough to educate his massage therapists into Kinesiotherapists. He would have 3-4 of them at a time in his large adjusting room doing the basic muscle balance on the patients and informing him of the muscles that wouldn’t balance. He would then do his work and complete the treatment. At the same time the chairs around the 7-8 adjusting tables would be full of patients waiting their turn. He would schedule a group of 10 patients every 30 minutes to arrive at the same time. They had the choice of watching each other getting their adjustment and balance or waiting for him in his private office. He catered to all needs.” (McDowall, 2005)
The importance of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been shown to countless people in the West using the Touch for Health methods (based on the bridge provided by the manual muscle test and the early AK reflex diagnostic and treatment techniques of Goodheart).
The contributions and new principles relating to AK and TCM have also been used as a springboard for other techniques and systems including Scott Walker’s Neuro-Emotional Technique, (2012) John Diamond’s Behavioral Kinesiology, (2012, 1979) Roger Callahan’s Thought Field Therapy, (2012) Gary Craig’s Emotional Freedom Techniques, (2012) and Fred Gallo and Harry Vincenzi’s Energy Tapping, (2008) among many others now established in the field of C.A.M.
These developments and mutual influences are extensively covered in
Two New Applied Kinesiology textbooks
that should be of interest to anyone who uses manual muscle testing for diagnostic information including Touch for Health practitioners,
as well as naturopaths, osteopaths, physiotherapists, sports rehabilitation, meridian therapists, acupuncture physicians,
and massage therapists everywhere.
as well as naturopaths, osteopaths, physiotherapists, sports rehabilitation, meridian therapists, acupuncture physicians,
and massage therapists everywhere.
Touch for Health practitioners particularly will find these textbooks welcome additions to their libraries, bringing the evidence-base for their practices up-to-the-minute in the 21st century!! A thorough understanding of the material in these texts will enable the Touch for Health practitioner to more effectively handle clients and get to the basic underlying cause of a health condition. Most importantly, in the era of Evidence-Informed-Practice, possessing this information will enable you to protect the methods Dr. Thie left you to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
2nd Editions are now available IN COLOR
AND $30 OFF:
and
References
· Craig G. The EFT Manual, 2nd Ed. Energy Psychology Press: Santa Rosa, CA; 2012.
· Gallo F, Vincenzi H. Energy Tapping: How to Rapidly Eliminate Anxiety, Depression, Cravings, and More Using Energy Psychology, 2nd Ed. New Harbinger Publications: Oakland; 2008.
· McDowall D. Perspectives on Touch for Health. National Institute of Chiropractic Research. (Files of Joseph Keating, PhD) 2005.
· Neuro Emotional Technique, 2012. http://www.netmindbody.com/.
· Schmitt WH, Jr. Personal letter; 2010.
· Thie J. Touch for Health, 2012. http://www.touch4health.com/.
· Thought Field Therapy, 2012. http://www.rogercallahan.com/news/.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Applied Kinesiology Research Published In The Past Year
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
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.
Conservative Chiropractic Management of Urinary Incontinence Using Applied Kinesiology: A Retrospective Case-Series Report, 2012.
Physical causes of anxiety and sleep disorders: a case report, 2012.
A narrative review of manual muscle testing and implications for muscle testing research.
Chiropractic management of a 30-year-old patient with Parsonage-Turner syndrome.
Conservative management of post-surgical urinary incontinence in an adolescent: A case history, 2011.
Inter-Examiner Reliability of Manual Muscle Testing of Lower Limb Muscles without the Ideomotor Effect, 2011.
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!!
Saturday, August 11, 2012
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.
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