Frost R. Applied Kinesiology: A Training Manual and Reference Book of Basic Principles and Practices

1 ed. — Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2002. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1556433743, ISBN13: 9781556433740.Applied Kinesiology had a simple beginning in 1964, based on the concept that muscle weakness is involved in most muscle spasms and, indeed, is primary.
Applied Kinesiology is based on the fact that body language never lies. The opportunity of understanding body language is enhanced by the ability to use muscles as indicators for body language. The original method of testing muscles and determining their function, first brought to my attention by Kendall, Kendall, and Wadsworth, remains the prime diagnostic device.
Once muscle weakness has been ascertained, a variety of therapeutic options is available, too numerous to enumerate here. The opportunity to use the body as an instrument of laboratory analysis is unparalleled in modem therapeutics because the response of the body is unerring; if one approaches the problem correctly, making the proper and adequate diagnosis and treatment, the response is adequate and satisfactory
both to the doctor and to the patient.
The name of the game, to quote a phrase, is to get people better. The body heals itself in a sure, sensible, practical, reasonable, and observable manner. "The healer within" can be approached from without. Man possesses a potential for recovery through the innate intelligence or the physiological homeostasis of the human structure. The recovery potential with which he is endowed merely waits for the hand and the heart and the mind of a trained individual to bring it into manifestation, allowing health to come forth; this is man's natural heritage.
This benefits mankind individually and collectively. It benefits the doctor who has rendered the service, and it allows the force which created the structure to operate unimpeded. This benefit can be performed with knowledge, with physiological facts, with predictable certainty. It should be done, it can be done, and this book offers a means and a measure of how it can be done. My appreciation to the author and his staff for the excellent job he has performed in advancing these principles, and my best wishes are extended to all who read this manual.
George J. Goodheart, Jr., D.C., FICC Diplomate, ICAK