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.

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

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.

Watch this animation to see it in action

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