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.

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October Seminar Berkhamsted UK

London October 2010

Start Date: Oct 30, 2010 - Start Time: 9:00 AM
End Date: Oct 31, 2010 - End Time: 5:00 PM PM

Description:

Once again, the amazing proprioceptive medicine course is being offered in Berkhamsted, UK.

This is a 2 day seminar that includes a BONUS 3rd day of nutrition via online learning.

Notes and lifelong membership to followup and updates included.

All the old favourites like:

• How to know you're testing the right thing
• How to find the primary quickly
• Why you must solve every weakness and how to do it with one adjustment
• The Alarm point technique
• How to test every muscle, even the ones you can't test
• The most reliable hypertonicity test ever
• Muscle activation technique
• How to use objective tests
• Finding hidden weaknesses

Virtually no overlap with the basic 100 hour course in AK.

AND FEATURING the NEW muscle activation 2.0 technique.

Limited to 10 attendees so you get personal tuition and lots of quality practice

Cost £295.00

Spaces Available: 10

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …..

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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.”

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Sciatica Cured Overnight

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

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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.

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Dental crown and pins

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

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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.

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The missing ingredient

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.

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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.

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Gold Crowns

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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

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Belly piercing and low back weakness

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Testing the foot arch muscles

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The Myotatic Reflex

The Myotatic Reflex (sometimes myotactic reflex) is probably our body’s most unrecognised and unappreciated defence mechanism.

Forget about the immune system. When it comes to making it safely through the day, nothing comes close to the myotatic reflex.

Imagine that a muscle is able to constantly monitor it’s own length and tension no matter what it’s length, and is able to respond the instant it’s length or tension changes. Without the myotatic reflex, controlled movement would be impossible.

The myotatic reflex starts in the muscle spindle which constantly and spontaneously produces an afferent impulse to the spine and therefore the brain – at a rate of at least 5 – 50 times per second.

Any little change in tension or stretch in the muscle will increase this feedback to spine and produce an rapid increase in muscle tone.

The Myotatic Reflex

We know this as the knee-jerk reflex. A sudden increase in quadriceps length induces a quick firing at the anterior motor neuron.

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The significance of the myotatic reflex is how it prevents damage to joints. When it is working properly, joints are protected from excessive movement or strain.

If the reflex is inhibited, joint will be damaged – causing pain initially, and osteoarthritis in the long term.

Assessing the patency of the myotatic reflex is the key to proprioceptive muscle testing and faster patient recovery.

Dedicated to strengthening your practice,

Simon King B.App.Sc(Chiro) DIBAK
www.expertmuscletesting.com

The withdrawal reflex

In the last blog I showed how the myotatic reflex works to prevent our body being damaged by an outside force.

The withdrawal reflex (also known as the flexor withdrawal reflex) also exists to keep us safe.

Whenever our skin is stimulated, our muscles respond appropriately to remove us from harm’s way.

This reflex can be stimulated by a wide variety of factors.

• Heat (touching a hotplate)
• Sharp (standing on a tack or a thorn)
• Deep pressure (a pebble in your shoe)
• Light pressure (tickling your foot)

When this reflex is activated, certain muscles contract to pull us away from the source of the irritation.  Naturally, (according to the Law of Reciprocal Inhibition) when any muscle contracts, it’s antagonist must be at least partially inhibited.

In other words, our skin is almost hard-wired into our muscle system (via sensory reflexes and the nervous system).

Most of the time, this sensory stimulus is transient and our muscles return to normal as soon as the threat is lifted.

But sometimes the threat stays. Sometimes the stimulus becomes permanent.

If I were to poke you in the stomach, you would flinch. No matter how much you exercised or how fit you were, your abdominal muscles would contract and your back muscles (the antagonists) would be inhibited.

If I then made that reaction permanent by leaving the irritation in place in the form of a belly piercing, then it would only be a matter of time before the back gave way in the form of a strain, sprain, pain, sciatica or disc bulge.

You can see the unsafe results of this safety mechanism in the following videos.

The first shows a young lady with 2 years of low back pain. As she stimulates the piercing, her low back inhibition vanishes (our body is more sensitive to changes in stimulation, than stimulation itself)

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In the second video a young dancer tells us what happened the day after she took her piercing out

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Whether or not a piercing induces inhibition is largely a matter of luck. It depends on which nerve endings are stimulated. It would appear that metal of all kinds is the worst nerve ending stimulator. Often if the piercing is replaced with nylon, teflon or wood, the inhibitory effect of the piercing is lost.

Dental crowns affect proprioception and muscle strength

“Like a miracle”