Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Applied Kinesiology as a Clinical Prediction Rule for Craniosacral dysfunctions and headache
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
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 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 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/
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Salivary Hormone Levels and the Manual Muscle Test
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.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Cranial Technique and craniosacral therapy and Applied Kinesiology
For several decades Dr. George J. Goodheart, Jr. produced Monthly AK Research Tapes -- LOADED with exceptional insights for the holistic physician. Here are the "Highlights" of Tape 4, Side 1 -- (with a few "illustrative pictures")
"Challenge of Cranial Faults
...
B. Internal frontal bone signs.
1. Wide nares on one side.
2. Narrow orbit on other side.
3. Super orbital notch soreness.
C. External frontal signs.
1. Wide orbit
2. Painful eyeball on wide orbit side.
3. Painful cheek bone on opposite side.
D. These external signs may be present without anterior neck flexor weakness.
E. Procedure for challenging internal frontal. Example: Wide nares, narrow orbit side.
1. Patient is in supine position.
2. Put pressure on malar bone.
3. Press medially toward base of nose with 4 or 5 lbs. pressure.
4. If there is a partial internal frontal bone rotation, the anterior neck flexors will show strength, but when pressure is applied to the malar bone as described above, this will cause an immediate weakness of the anterior neck flexors.
F. Correct internal frontal bone in usual way.
1. Go to side of wide nares, narrow orbit using roll out type pressure on the alveolar process.
2. Go past teeth into pterygoid pocket and press footward.
3. Get on pterygoid process on the opposite side of press upward.
G. Re-challenge malar arch and anterior neck flexors will not blow.
H. External frontal bone rotation.
1. Wide orbit with no change in nares.
2. The wide orbit side has painful eyeball.
3. Narrow orbit side has painful cheek bone.
I. External frontal bone challenge.
1. Go to narrow orbit side.
2. Grasp upper molar teeth and pulls downward with 4 or 5 lbs. pressure, (if the patient has dentures, try to grasp gums in that area).
3. Retest anterior neck flexors.
4. If partial external frontal bone rotation, flexors will go weak.
5. Correct external frontal bone as follows:
a. Press lateral to cruciate ligament on hard palate on narrow orbit side, press toward vertex of skull.
b. Check eyeball pain, pressing on cruciate ligament in direction that eliminates it.
J. Use in difficult cervical and whiplash injuries."
"Challenge of Cranial Faults
...
A. Sign of internal or external rotated frontal is weakness of anterior neck flexors.
B. Internal frontal bone signs.
1. Wide nares on one side.
2. Narrow orbit on other side.
3. Super orbital notch soreness.
C. External frontal signs.
1. Wide orbit
2. Painful eyeball on wide orbit side.
3. Painful cheek bone on opposite side.
D. These external signs may be present without anterior neck flexor weakness.
E. Procedure for challenging internal frontal. Example: Wide nares, narrow orbit side.
1. Patient is in supine position.
2. Put pressure on malar bone.
3. Press medially toward base of nose with 4 or 5 lbs. pressure.
4. If there is a partial internal frontal bone rotation, the anterior neck flexors will show strength, but when pressure is applied to the malar bone as described above, this will cause an immediate weakness of the anterior neck flexors.
F. Correct internal frontal bone in usual way.
1. Go to side of wide nares, narrow orbit using roll out type pressure on the alveolar process.
2. Go past teeth into pterygoid pocket and press footward.
3. Get on pterygoid process on the opposite side of press upward.
G. Re-challenge malar arch and anterior neck flexors will not blow.
H. External frontal bone rotation.
1. Wide orbit with no change in nares.
2. The wide orbit side has painful eyeball.
3. Narrow orbit side has painful cheek bone.
I. External frontal bone challenge.
1. Go to narrow orbit side.
2. Grasp upper molar teeth and pulls downward with 4 or 5 lbs. pressure, (if the patient has dentures, try to grasp gums in that area).
3. Retest anterior neck flexors.
4. If partial external frontal bone rotation, flexors will go weak.
5. Correct external frontal bone as follows:
a. Press lateral to cruciate ligament on hard palate on narrow orbit side, press toward vertex of skull.
b. Check eyeball pain, pressing on cruciate ligament in direction that eliminates it.
J. Use in difficult cervical and whiplash injuries."
Applied Kinesiology and Traditional Chinese Medicine or Acupuncture
More Clinical Wisdom (about Acupuncture and AK) offered by Dr. Goodheart in his Monthly AK Research Tapes.
(Doctors around the world remember Dr. Goodheart spe...aking with this kind of detailed clarity about all these issues when they spoke with him...inexhaustible GENIUS!)
"Temperature difference in Acupuncture.
A. Inner aspect of knee is related to liver.
B. Outer aspect of knee is related to stomach.
C. Patella aspect of knee is related to spleen.
D. Lateral portion of lower limb, starting at head of fibular to lateral maleolus is related to gallbladder.
E. Medial aspect of leg from the Achilles tendon to the os calcis is related to the kidney.
F. Midway on the radial ulnar aspect of arm on the palmar surface is related to the paracardium or circulation sex, (the P-4 or H-4 area).
G. On the volar aspect of the arm from the olecranon process to the mid-portion of the transverse ligament, is related to the thyroid gland.
H. On the base of the metacarpal to the tip of the little finger on the little finger side is the area associated with the small intestine.
I. At the point L-1 to L-11, or what the Chinese call the "Three mile point." On the radial side of the arm at the elbow, the size of one half dollar, is the area associated with the large intestine.
J. The mid-aspect of the lower limb at point K-7 is the area for the kidney or psoas.
K. These areas will be hot to the touch if the meridian is full.
L. These same areas will be cool if the meridian is empty or deficient.
A quick review of the above.
A. Bladder or sacrospinalis, B-59 to B-60, (medial aspect of Achilles tendon).
B. Liver or pectoralis major sternal division, L-8, (medial aspect of knee).
C. Stomach or pectoralis major clavicular division, S-34 to S-36, (lateral aspect of knee).
D. Gall bladder or popliteus muscle, G-33 to G-39, (lateral aspect of lower leg).
E. Spleen lower and middle trapezius, pancreas, latissimus dorsi, St-9, (adjacent to the patella).
F. Heart or subscapularis, H-7, (on the palmar surface of the hand, little finger side).
G. Note: Correlate the above areas with Chinese pulse evaluation, alarm points, and muscle testing."
(MORE)
"Acupuncture
A. Running a meridian from beginning to end turns muscle on.
B. Running a meridian from the end to the beginning, turns a muscle off.
Example:
1. Running kidney meridian from K-1 to K-27, will turn on psoas muscle.
2. Running a kidney meridian from K-27 to K-1 will turn off psoas muscle with the exception:
a. When too much energy exists in a meridian, that meridian will not turn off. (Plus meridian).
C. Conception vessel works in reverse.
1. When running CV-24 to CV-1, a positive muscle response is elicited.
a. Any muscle will turn on that is associated with a cranial fault.
2. Conception vessel locks cranial fault in corrected position. Also locks upper cervical and occipital faults, (atlas, axis, and 3rd cervical).
D. Governing vessel.
1. Starts at coccyx tip, runs over the head on midline, over the nose to upper lip.
a. Follows usual course, running forward turns muscle on, turning backward turns muscle off.
2. Governing vessel is associated with sacral faults.
3. Does not lock pelvis as unit, (posterior ilium, posterior ischium, etc.).
4. It will only lock a sacral fault, respiratory spinal fluid in nature.
5. A sacral respiration fault cannot be reversed, once the governing vessel has been locked.
E. A cranial respiratory fault cannot be reversed once the conception vessel has been locked."
The latest information and research evidence supporting the combination of manual muscle testing for the analysis of Meridian System Disorders is here:
Chapter 10 -- Applied Kinesiology Essentials: The Missing Link In Health Care
https://www.thegangasaspress.com/
A. Inner aspect of knee is related to liver.
B. Outer aspect of knee is related to stomach.
C. Patella aspect of knee is related to spleen.
D. Lateral portion of lower limb, starting at head of fibular to lateral maleolus is related to gallbladder.
E. Medial aspect of leg from the Achilles tendon to the os calcis is related to the kidney.
F. Midway on the radial ulnar aspect of arm on the palmar surface is related to the paracardium or circulation sex, (the P-4 or H-4 area).
G. On the volar aspect of the arm from the olecranon process to the mid-portion of the transverse ligament, is related to the thyroid gland.
H. On the base of the metacarpal to the tip of the little finger on the little finger side is the area associated with the small intestine.
I. At the point L-1 to L-11, or what the Chinese call the "Three mile point." On the radial side of the arm at the elbow, the size of one half dollar, is the area associated with the large intestine.
J. The mid-aspect of the lower limb at point K-7 is the area for the kidney or psoas.
K. These areas will be hot to the touch if the meridian is full.
L. These same areas will be cool if the meridian is empty or deficient.
A quick review of the above.
A. Bladder or sacrospinalis, B-59 to B-60, (medial aspect of Achilles tendon).
B. Liver or pectoralis major sternal division, L-8, (medial aspect of knee).
C. Stomach or pectoralis major clavicular division, S-34 to S-36, (lateral aspect of knee).
D. Gall bladder or popliteus muscle, G-33 to G-39, (lateral aspect of lower leg).
E. Spleen lower and middle trapezius, pancreas, latissimus dorsi, St-9, (adjacent to the patella).
F. Heart or subscapularis, H-7, (on the palmar surface of the hand, little finger side).
G. Note: Correlate the above areas with Chinese pulse evaluation, alarm points, and muscle testing."
(MORE)
"Acupuncture
A. Running a meridian from beginning to end turns muscle on.
B. Running a meridian from the end to the beginning, turns a muscle off.
Example:
1. Running kidney meridian from K-1 to K-27, will turn on psoas muscle.
2. Running a kidney meridian from K-27 to K-1 will turn off psoas muscle with the exception:
a. When too much energy exists in a meridian, that meridian will not turn off. (Plus meridian).
C. Conception vessel works in reverse.
1. When running CV-24 to CV-1, a positive muscle response is elicited.
a. Any muscle will turn on that is associated with a cranial fault.
2. Conception vessel locks cranial fault in corrected position. Also locks upper cervical and occipital faults, (atlas, axis, and 3rd cervical).
D. Governing vessel.
1. Starts at coccyx tip, runs over the head on midline, over the nose to upper lip.
a. Follows usual course, running forward turns muscle on, turning backward turns muscle off.
2. Governing vessel is associated with sacral faults.
3. Does not lock pelvis as unit, (posterior ilium, posterior ischium, etc.).
4. It will only lock a sacral fault, respiratory spinal fluid in nature.
5. A sacral respiration fault cannot be reversed, once the governing vessel has been locked.
E. A cranial respiratory fault cannot be reversed once the conception vessel has been locked."
The latest information and research evidence supporting the combination of manual muscle testing for the analysis of Meridian System Disorders is here:
Chapter 10 -- Applied Kinesiology Essentials: The Missing Link In Health Care
https://www.thegangasaspress.com/
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Craniosacral treatment with Applied Kinesiology
For several decades Dr. Goodheart produced Monthly AK Research Tapes -- LOADED with exceptional insights for the holistic physician. Here are the "Highlights" of Tape 5, Side 1--
(courtesy Dr. Paul White, DC, DIBAK):
(courtesy Dr. Paul White, DC, DIBAK):
Challenge
of Cranial Faults
A. Sign of
internal or external rotated frontal is weakness of anterior neck flexors.
B. Internal
frontal bone signs.
1. Wide
nares on one side.
2. Narrow
orbit on other side.
3. Super
orbital notch soreness.
C. External
frontal signs.
1. Wide
orbit
2. Painful
eyeball on wide orbit side.
3. Painful
cheek bone on opposite side.
D. These
external signs may be present without anterior neck flexor weakness.
E. Procedure
for challenging internal frontal. Example: Wide nares, narrow orbit side.
1. Patient
is in supine position.
2. Put
pressure on malar bone.
3. Press
medially toward base of nose with 4 or 5 lbs. pressure.
4. If there
is a partial internal frontal bone rotation, the
anterior neck flexors will show strength, but when pressure is applied to the malar bone as described above, this will cause an immediate weakness of
the anterior neck flexors.
F. Correct
internal frontal bone in usual way.
1. Go to
side of wide nares, narrow orbit using roll out type pressure on the alveolar process.
2. Go past
teeth into pterygoid pocket and press footward.
3. Get on
pterygoid process on the opposite side of press upward.
G. Re-challenge
malar arch and anterior neck flexors will not blow.
H. External
frontal bone rotation.
1. Wide
orbit with no change in nares.
2. The wide
orbit side has painful eyeball.
3. Narrow
orbit side has painful cheek bone.
I. External
frontal bone challenge.
1. Go to
narrow orbit side.
2. Grasp
upper molar teeth and pulls downward with 4 or 5 lbs. pressure, (if the
patient has dentures, try to grasp gums in that area).
3. Retest
anterior neck flexors.
4. If
partial external frontal bone rotation, flexors will go weak.
5. Correct
external frontal bone as follows:
a.
Press lateral to cruciate ligament on hard palate on narrow
orbit side, press toward vertex of skull.
b.
Check eyeball pain, pressing on cruciate ligament in direction
that eliminates it.
J. Use in
difficult cervical and whiplash injuries."
Find out more about the Applied Kinesiology
Approach to Cranial Disorders at:
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
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