Kinesiology Explained
Kinesiology began as a field of medicine primarily working with muscles and joints and today there are still people who work in conventional medicine who use Kinesiology.
Kinesiology was developed further in the 1960’s when a chiropractor discovered that by using certain muscle tests an individual’s state of health could be determined.
Today there are many different forms of Kinesiology but all have a belief system or principal that the body has an innate ability to determine what is beneficial to it and what is needed to become healthy.
Kinesiology has developed into an holistic therapy and aims to treat the individual physically, emotionally and chemically thus balancing mind, body and spirit.
The therapy is rapidly gaining in popularity as a powerful yet gentle way of helping people regain their health.
The basic tool is a series of gentle muscle tests which involves the therapist applying gentle pressure to an arm or leg for example to test the response of the muscle beneath. The arm or leg is put into a specific position to isolate, as far as possible the muscle in question. The muscle will either be able to resist the light pressure or not and it is this that can be used by the Kinesiologist to gain valuable information about what is needed to restore the body to balance.
The Kinesiologist uses this response to access information in the body that neither the Kinesiologist or potentially the client was previously aware of.
Anyone can benefit from Kinesiology from sports people, babies and young children through to the elderly.
