A Report of My Findings
In my current practice of
Chiropractic, my evaluation and treatment methods give the impression of being
rather unconventional. This is because
of a substantially deviating philosophy of the functioning of the human body
when compared to traditional Chiropractic.
I have been traveling in this direction solely because I have seen
exceptional clinical outcomes and because I desire to continue to show
additional outcomes that surpass current possibilities.
Time honored, established and
accepted teachings of Chiropractic are a tremendous benefit to many
individuals. Traditional Chiropractic philosophy rightly focuses on restoring
alignment to the body structures but is, to a large extent, lacking in its
ability to find and fix the underlying causes of problems that are
Chemical-Structural-Energetic (C-S-E) in nature.
Chiropractic adjustments are
essential for restoring both neurological communication and even more
importantly, the higher energies that have to do with the Innate Intelligence
of the body. But this, all too often,
is simply not adequate to address the big picture of what is happening in the
human body to allow the most effective and efficient treatment of health.
All Chiropractic schools teach
about the Innate Intelligence of the body, which is simply the blueprint for
body functioning encoded onto the genes.
The body truly does have the ability to heal itself (in most ways). The messages encoded onto the genes are a
blueprint for health that directs the body’s energies towards whatever
processes the body needs to perform that will best maintain, or regain the
highest level of function the body is capable of achieving. The body will always do the best it can with
what is has to work with.
The body does not, however,
always have what it requires to perform the functions it (sometimes
desperately) desires to act upon. When
the body is extremely stressed from various reasons, there are numerous options
that the body might desire to more efficiently and effectively restore health
and function. One might think of these
factors as rate limiting steps. If the
body needs certain specific factors, (C-S-E) that it does not have available,
it cannot do what it might be capable of, if it had all these options
available.
Applied Kinesiology is a
highly innovative and indispensable tool to obtain a more complete picture of
what is actually happening in the body.
It allows us a definitive evaluation and understanding of what the body
needs (chemical-structural-energetic factors) to regain function and to restore
health. With the advanced
Kinesiologies, we are now showing the ability to evaluate the body as a whole,
or any part (system) of the body for Chemical-Structural-Energetic (C-S-E)
needs.
When we are able to evaluate the
body in this manner, we can precisely give the body those specific factors it
vitally needs, even in the order that the body wants them, to regain/restore
function in the most efficient and effective way that the body is capable of
providing. What began as a simple
desire to fix a weak muscle producing a winging scapula (Dr. George Goodheart,
1964) has evolved into the most ground-breaking and comprehensive understanding
of body function and treatments ever imaginable.
These C-S-E factors apply with
a strain to a joint, an immune system manifestation with a simple cold or flu,
or just about any problem that can overcome the body, when its options are
limited by available resources within the body. To simply give the body what it requires, in order to perform the
functions it desires to accomplish, is a simplistic, but realistic
rationale. When we are able to evaluate
and treat the body in this manner, we are able to assist the body to maximize
function and health with results that have been previously unheard of.
With a strain injury, the
time-honored Chiropractic adjustment can be tremendously beneficial to restore
joint function and movement and to reduce the cause of continually mounting
inflammation. What other factors might
the body benefit from in its attempts to maximize health and function?
There are two parts to a joint
injury; the alignment of the joint and the health (C-S-E) of the supporting
tissues (muscles-tendons-ligaments) around it.
Many forms of treatment can be beneficial, but what does the body truly
require and how could we possibly find those needs?
Are there muscle and ligament
injuries that would benefit from specific nutrients that might tremendously
accelerate healing? If we could find
precisely what those nutrients were and the amounts necessary to assist the
body in its efforts to respond to such trauma, how much could we possibly
accelerate the ordinary healing powers of the body?
Is there specific, deep soft
tissue techniques that “turn on” those injured, supportive soft tissue
structures? Just how much differently
could the body perform, if it had all the options that are obtainable,
available to it? The body does know
what to do to best respond from any specific loss of health. It merely needs various options made
available that are often not obtainable, given it’s the current level of health
and nutritional status.
When an acute, severe strain
is initially evaluated, when is a dynamic adjustment of that area first
indicated? Does the body always want
the affected joint adjusted back into its correct alignment initially? Is there a priority of needs that the body
would reveal, if we had a way to access that information? Could we possibly determine the body’s
needs, most specifically, even in the order in which the body would best
benefit from those various factors?
We do have this knowledge!
These answers are now readily accessible utilizing advanced systems of Applied
Kinesiology.
In fact, the body does show
that in some circumstances (severe strain injuries), specific nutrients
(natural anti-inflammatories, enzymes, ground substances for healing soft
tissues) are a more primary need than an adjustment to assist in healing the
body from within for some period of time before structural work is initiated.
With many strain injuries, the
body’s needs for healing are best served if it was provided with very large
amounts of specific ground substances for healing soft tissues
(muscle-tendon-ligament). Studies have
consistently shown that glucosamine, chondroitin, and various mineral
supplements enable the body to more effectively and efficiently heal those
tissues. In addition, natural
anti-inflammatories and enzymes tremendously reduce inflammation and accelerate
healing.
When joint injuries are tested
for potential nutritional needs in this office with manual muscle testing
procedures of Applied Kinesiology, remarkably high levels of these nutrients
(20/day each, of 2 or 3 different and unique formulations) show to accelerate
recovery with astonishing difference.
Complicated and severe strain
injuries can be reduced from 3-6 weeks to 1-3 weeks consistently (with very few
chronic reoccurances) when employing natural remedies along with Chiropractic
treatment that addresses muscle weakness as is understood utilizing knowledge
treatment through Applied Kinesiology
One of the most substantial
shortcomings in Chiropractic is reoccurring structural conditions that give
Chiropractic the reputation of treating people seemingly for a lifetime. The primary factor with these structural
problems is ongoing muscle weakness and imbalance. Some of this muscle weakness and imbalance is from old strains
that have never healed. Some may be
organ related where there are effects of organs that have lost their perfect
health and function that result in weakness of musculo-skeletal areas.
Food allergies have a major
effect on the musculo-skeletal system of the body because of a systemic
inflammatory reaction. Food allergies
might be one of the most important factors of all as a consequence of an
autoimmune reaction where the body attacks the cartilage in the joints in the
IgG category of food allergies. These
same food allergies affect muscular support of structural areas of the body
through negative effects on organ systems.
When my patients come in with
structural symptoms that are worse the first thing upon arising in the morning,
the majority of these symptoms are clearly showing to be related directly to
the IgG (delayed reacting) category of food allergies. Because food allergies are so easily found
using manual muscle testing, we screen for them commonly. We regularly see structural symptoms, immune
system problems, and many other seemingly unrelated and unclear symptoms
consistently worsen with ingestion of food allergies. Because of these clinical observations, we now believe there is
an extremely close correlation between food allergies and many body
problems. Foods must not be thought of
as merely fodder for energy, they must be thought of as friend or foe!
One extremely valuable outcome
of employing a system of Applied Kinesiology evaluation is an understanding of
specific muscle-organ relationships where muscles can be weak from loss of
health and reserve energy of organ systems.
In this approach, we can
evaluate any and every organ system in the body and determine if the systems
have retained their perfect health and reserve energy, or if they are on a
downhill slide towards eventual disease often decades in the future. Crucial information is easily determined
concerning what C-S-E factors can be provided to the body in order to assist
the body in regaining the organ system’s perfect health and reserve energy.
Utilizing these methods, we
are unmistakably restoring organ health and function of any and every organ
system in the body. If the organ
systems all have their perfect health and reserve energy, there is minimal
chance of the body succumbing to disease.
It is the only way possible to assure the highest levels of health and
vitality the body can achieve and maintain, and also give the most years of
disease free living.
In my discussions with
patients, I talk in terms of restoring health, rather than in terms of curing
any specific disease. It may be a play
on words, but from a legalistic position, I cannot hold myself in jeopardy of
being accused of practicing medicine without a license by talking in terms of
curing disease. So, when individuals
come to me with significant disease, I tell them that we may be able to affect
the disease if and only if we can find the (C-S-E) factors that are
contributing to the loss of health that brought on the disease. It is rather like a farmer with his
land. If his soil is fertile, his crops
will flourish. If his soil is depleted
of nutrients, only weeds will grow there.
The body has absolute and
specific nutritional needs for every organ system. If one is to have health of each and every individual organ
system, their bodies need certain, specific nutrients to maintain those organs’
health. The study of Functional
Medicine has shown through research and clinical trials what nutrients
(vitamins-minerals-herbs) various organ systems need. Nutrition makers like Metagenics have put together synergistic
formulas of these nutrients that can and do restore organ system health and
function. Now, we merely have to
determine which of these formulas best match the individual’s biochemical
individuality. Once again manual muscle
testing utilizing applied Kinesiology is unsurpassed in its ability to find
specifically, what levels of which nutrients the body needs.
If our immune system is
deficient of Vitamin C and Zinc, we are susceptible to various organisms
(virus-bacteria-yeast-fungus-parasite and now, even the mycoplasmas) gaining a
foothold and proliferating. In the world
of Natural Medicine, there have been various natural formulas of nutrients that
can and do effectively and efficiently combat those “bad critters”. I have treated colds, flues, and all of the
above-mentioned organisms in various organ systems of the body. The bottom line is that the body absolutely
has the ability to respond; BUT, it needs VERY SPECIFIC nutrients in SPECIFIC
amounts in order for the body to respond in the most effective and efficient
manner. Too many people are guessing
incorrectly and are getting less than desirable results.
When we treat various immune
system problems with natural medicine, the common denominator is usually
Vitamin C with Bioflavanoids and one of the forms of Zinc. Although there are many forms of C and Zinc,
manual muscle testing shows that the body’s needs are very specific as to which
form of the nutrient will work most efficiently and effectively at that point
in time. The body can show needs for these nutrients from maintenance levels to
mega levels, depending on the body’s nutritional status and the level of
involvement of the problem.
Above and beyond these
nutrients, the body often shows to need specific therapeutic herbal formulas
that are particular to immune system support, again in varying amounts. When we give the body what it needs in the
amounts it needs, and avoid the negative effects of food allergies, the immune
system (and all body systems) responds in ways infrequently seen or heard of.
Our goal in health care should
be to allow one to die young as old as possible! Applied Kinesiology systems of evaluation are showing to be
exceptionally comprehensive in their ability to maximize health and function of
the musculoskeletal systems and also the organ systems of the body.
There is a major flaw in our
current health care delivery model in that it does not emphasize or measure
outcomes. Every form of health care
should be accountable for its ability to show varying levels of success. When consumers have this information, they
will be empowered to make to best health care decisions possible.
Imagine you could live in a
world where the medical community would utilize the strength of all of its
different licensed practitioners toward one common goal-the good of the
patient. Imagine that all of the economic turf battles, professional jealousies
and narrow-mindedness could be transcended. Is this idealistic new age babble
or is this in fact an achievable goal?
It should be the overall goal
of health care reform to recognize the inherent value in both alternative and
allopathic medicine, using each for its unique strength. But unlike our current
system, where alternative medicine is used as a last resort, this forward
looking model would include a system where the entry point heavily favors a
non-pharmaceutical/ non-surgical approach.
Our nation’s health care system is currently more of a disease
care system, and is not functioning at a very effective level. Patients often
only access medical care to solve an acute medical crisis. This has proven to
be costly, morbid and unsatisfactory.
It is the reason the
Alternative medical
practitioners provide a model of wellness, the missing foundation to a healthcare
system designed to treat illness. We appreciate the life-giving intervention
that allopathy can offer in cases of acute injury, life-threatening conditions
or end-stage disease. Allopathy, however, has not recognized that it fails to
provide a technology for wellness. Screening for (even early manifestations of)
disease, while necessary, is not adequate.
It is certainly lifesaving to
recognize a positive stress test in an asymptomatic patient (rather than having
sudden death be the first symptom of cardiac disease as it is in 50 percent of
patients). Yet, it is even more profound to alter the future by identifying
loss of the perfect health and reserve energy of the body’s organ systems
decades prior to that loss of health (disease).
It is now possible to determine if/when someone is on the downhill
slide towards an eventual disease decades in the future and make available
necessary therapeutic nutrients and lifestyle changes that will eradicate the
need for the positive stress test altogether! It should be our goal to create a true
prevention-based health care system as opposed to an after-the-fact disease
care system.
Clearly the American public,
in survey after survey, has indicated that it is not comfortable with its
health care system as it currently exists. The office visits to alternative
medicine practitioners already exceeds the number of visits to traditional
medical doctors. The educated and intuitive consumer has already begun to seek
wellness and prevention elsewhere from the mainstream medical community. In
fact, one could argue that we do not have a “healthcare system” at all. Rather
we have a “disease-care system”, a system where the patient only addresses his
or her medical situation in the midst of a crisis.
Why then are the shapers of
our health care system so entrenched in a model that fails to meet the public’s
needs?
These are questions that need
to be scrutinized closely.