George Goodheart,applied kinesiologist,psoas,AK,muscle testing
AK Treatments
20/10/08 08:12 Filed in: Applied Kinesiology Treatments
The neighbors teenage daughter had three girlfriends visiting. One very sturdy girl has had hip problems. She told me that she her right leg was longer and that this has caused her constant pain (with her daily running) for over a year. I tested all the hip and upper leg muscles I could remember. Gluteus medius, Rectus femoris, Psoas, Piriformis, lower Abdominals tested weak. Hamstrings and Gluteus maximus tested very strong. I turned on all the weak-testing muscles with NL points (I haven't memorized the NE points yet!). Her pain was gone. I had her run around the pool, bend and stretch. Her pain in the bumm (middle of Gluteus maximus) returned. I suspected, as always, that the tight painful muscle was a reactor muscle so I spindle cell weakened it by pinching the muscle belly together, parallel to the muscle fibers, directly over the area that hurt. She was lying on her belly, so I had her next pull her leg forwards towards the ground (activating the opponents to Gluteus maximus: lower Abdominals, Rectus femoris, hip flexors). Presto, her pain was gone and couldn't be found through movement or stretching.
Next, her skinny friend asked if I could do something about her "shin splints". I tested the lower leg muscles and found only peroneus longus and brevis, the peroneus muscle that everts the foot (moves the pointed foot toward the little toe side) weak-testing. I strengthened it with NLs. Then I used a fast vibratory massage on the muscular attachments of muscles to the shin bone where she was having her shin-splint pains. This "origin-insertion" technique was the first muscle-strengthening technique discovered by George Goodheart (the founder of applied kinesiology). See: http://www.joyousworld.com/health/ak/oi.html
Her shin-splint pains were gone.
The girls asked me how to increase their stretch. They are all dancers and want to do the splits. I showed them the technique of stretching a muscle to the maximum, fixing it in place, and gently tightening the maximally stretched muscle while breathing. (Hypertone-X, proprioceptive-integrative technique?). This increased their range of motion swiftly.
-Dr. Robert Frost
Applied Kinesiologist