Why would a bodybuilder lose 75% of their strength?

75% loss of muscle strength

How to make a patient strong enough to treat

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New Protocol

A New Protocol

Hi there muscle testing fans,

Although I have been quiet recently, I have been creative.

In my quest to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of my muscle testing, I have developed an almost completely new system of routine examination.

This new protocol uses the principles of muscle activation and turbo-charges them to make a system that is more elegant, specific and sensitive than I would have dreamed possible.

Before I release it, I would like to know if others find it as useful as I do. I am after 10 volunteers to test the system and report back. I only want people who are prepared to really give it a try and leave honest comments, suggestions and criticisms here and on the Expert Muscle Testing Facebook page within the next 7 days.

If you have gold membership access or have done my seminars and would like to try the new protocol (it's easy to learn and will only take about 2 minutes per patient to follow - yes that's right, a complete muscle testing examination in 2 minutes or less), then please leave your name and email and I will send you the link.

Leave your name below or send an email to me at info@proprioception.org.uk

Talk soon

Simon King

The Gastrocnemius Test

How often do you find a weak gastrocnemius? If you had asked me 6 months ago, I would probably have said never. Now I would say, in about 15% of patients (until it's fixed). The reason, as usual, is that I was using the wrong test. I think you'll like this new version of the gastrocnemius test.

When this test is weak, the patient will be inherently unstable and adjustments won't hold because any time they activate their gastrocnemius, every other muscle will go weak (see muscle activation technique). They are also likely to present with knee, hip and low back problems.

Check it out and be sure to leave any comments or questions below.

Gastrocnemius

How NOT to muscle test

How to cheat with muscle testing

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Raving Fans

There are many ways to create raving fans in your practice.

One of my favourites is a rolled up piece of tissue .....

Bad hip joint

If this doesn't make you sign up to proprioceptive muscle testing seminars and email all your friends, I don't know what will.

So simple, yet so powerful.

After years and years of doctors and physiotherapy, this guy finally gets the answer he needs.

I hope you make muscle testing part of your practice soon.

The Diagnostic Power of Alarm Points

You're not going to believe this video.

A 15 year old boy presents with more X-rays, scans and tests than he can carry and I figure out what is wrong with him by pushing on a very diagnostic point.

The Alarm point technique is one of my most powerful strategies. I teach it on the Nutrition Metabolism and Toxicity seminar.

It works because it allows you to find the reason for any bilateral weakness (often caused by organ stress or malfunction). When you push on the primary alarm point and every weakness is abolished, you know you have found something very important for that patient's recovery.

This boy had been investigated for "restless legs syndrome" for 2 years and then for unexplained bouts of vomiting for the last 5 months.

Watch as the diagnosis is confirmed...

Gall bladder alarm point

Unnecessary pain and injury

Why should a young and fit guy suffer pain for years in his hip and shoulder? The answer is easy to find when you know how to muscle test.

Luke muscle test

October Seminar Berkhamsted UK

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How to measure muscle strength

In July 2008, the British Medical Journal published a landmark study which established an association between muscle strength and mortality unrelated to fitness or exercise levels. You can see the study here: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/337/jul01_2/a439

As I was setting up a new practice a year later, I decided to replicate their protocols to measure muscle strength.

What they did to measure muscle strength was to measure muscle mass and then get people to do a one rep maximum lift with bench press and leg press. By adding the two lifts together and dividing my muscle mass, they could compare the maximum lift capacity of men of different sizes and weights.

So that is exactly what I did, using a Bioscan 916 from Maltron, I can measure muscle mass accurately, and then I measure a one rep maximum bench press.  I found, however that the leg press was difficult because so much depended on the angle of the knee at the start of the test, so I used a deadlift instead. I figure with those two tests, I am using most of the body's muscle mass.

Here is how it works:

Measuring muscle strength

The results have been fascinating

For men I get a range of between 1 and 6. To be competitive, athletes need to be above 5. Anyone below 3.3 is in the lowest quarter of my population and is usually well below par healthwise.

For women the lowest quarter is below 2.

I am pleased that every patient in the lowest quarter I have been able to lift out of the danger zone. The average increase in strength for those in the lowest quarter is 64%.

The average increase for those in the middle range is 17% and the average for the top range is 10%.  These increases are an average for everyone who I have re-tested, which is not a majority but neither are they selected.

Your comments and questions are welcome.

A Chiropractic Subluxation

In Chiropractic, a subluxation is not a fixation, or a bone out of place. To be classed as a subluxation, it must have an element of nerve interference. Too often this is simply inferred, but in this video, it's obvious. Far from a "historical concept" the way the GCC claims, this video shows that it is real, demonstrable and treatable by a chiropractic adjustment.

A Chiropractic Subluxation

Twice the range of motion

Proprioception is a powerful ally in improving flexibility and strength. In this video, a 65 year old man demonstrates how he doubled his flexibility and increased his strength (after 10 years of yoga) in just one month, simply by removing his metal crowns.

LDouble your flexibility without exercise or stretching

The book he is referring to is

www.live-without-pain.com

Finding food intolerance using muscle testing

You might not believe this video, but it was taken exactly as you see it with 4 or 5 witnesses.

Digestive problems are extremely common and although there are many "guidelines" a science based on averages can never determine what is going to be right for every person. Indeed, people's needs may change in time.

This woman had just come out of a 1 week stay in hospital for pancreatitis and cholecystitis after a long history of illness. Watch what happens to her as she tastes a cereal bar.

Cereal Bar Weakness

The Nutrition modules cover the science, philosophy and art of nutrition, using the unique power of afferent input (taste) and it's effects on muscle tone to help you solve even the most difficult of nutritional or metabolic problems.

Mercury and Neuronal Degeneration

Interesting video on the effects of mercury on developing neurons.

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Damage - Uni. of Calgary

Why don’t some injuries heal?

Some injuries just don't seem to heal no matter what treatment or therapy is used. This woman suffered for 12 years with low back pain after a whiplash injury. Turns out, the injury wasn't the reason she didn't get better .....

Whiplash for 12 years

2 years later ....

“I’m not crying every day.” Karen Robinson is a 38 year-old housewife from Stockport in Cheshire. “13 years ago, I had a car accident where I apparently suffered whiplash. As a result, I suffered acute back problems, culminating in me slipping two discs when I fell down the stairs. I spent thousands of pounds – reflexology, Chinese homeopathy... I just wanted to find something that worked! My local chiropractor thought it might be linked to my crown (the same year as my accident, I’d had a metal crown put in) and put me in touch with Simon. I can remember my husband saying at the time – what have you been told now! So we both went and visited  Simon in Berkhamsted, and Simon asked me to do the dumbbell test, where he asked me to lift a dumbbell with my left and then my right hand. My right hand just wouldn’t move – until he told me to cover my crown, and then yes, I could move it! On Simon’s advice, I had the crown removed and replaced with a non-metal version. I can honestly say that my back has improved ten-fold, instantly my strength came back... I’m no longer on tablets every day and I’m not crying every day.”

Sciatica Cured Overnight

A patient tells how his sciatica was cured overnight when his dentist removed a tooth and two fillings.

Robert

How Reflexology Really Works

Many people think reflexology is to do with energies or body maps. Whenever pressure or stretch is introduced, the body will react by changing muscle tone. This in itself is therapeutic.
In this patient, I choose a random point first (as a placebo intervention) and then I press the Heart alarm point. There is obviously a difference in the body's reaction to properly placed pressure and the abductors are now facilitated.

How Reflexology really works

Dental crown and pins

Tina Vincent in NZ showing how dental crowns caused stress and anxiety plus a lack of strength in a patient.

Amalgam & Metal pins Client B

My teachers noticed the difference

A dancer tells how her teachers noticed how much stronger she was the day after she removed her belly piercing. She told all her friends to take their piercings out and nearly all of them noticed a difference too (all except two).

If we put a "nail" through the skin, the flexor withdrawal reflex means we must facilitate some muscles to pull away from it. As the abdominals (in this case) are facilitated, the antagonists (low back extensors and rotators) will be inhibited.

Removing the inhibition allowed this young woman to dance better and got rid of her low back pain.

Belly stud in a dancer

Weakness with very small amalgam

This is from the "leave no stone unturned" department. This young man loved to work out but his heavy lifting always damaged his back. That went on for months until I discovered that one, tiny amalgam filling was actually causing his weakness. He went on to make a full recovery once that amalgam was removed.

Tiny Amalgam

Denture Causing Weakness

Occasionally just the taste of the acrylic used to make dentures causes weakness. Some dentures, especially old ones are made with a very toxic chemical called monomer. Just the taste of this chemical is enough to cause weakness in some people.

Denture causing weakness

Gold Crowns

Gold Crown

Muscle Receptors

For an excellent summary of the structure and function of muscle spindles:

Chapter 11 - Muscle Receptors.

Amalgam causing weakness

Mini Seminar Advanced Shoulder Examination and Denture Cure

Advanced shoulder exam

Belly piercing and low back weakness

Belly piercing

Testing the foot arch muscles

Foot testing

84 visits and no better?