New Protocol

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

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