Kinesiology is defined by balancing a person as a whole, enhancing health and well-being

Specialized Kinesiology more often puts focus on the mental/emotional and energy aspects. Both forms of Kinesiology use massage, nutrition, energy reflexes, and counseling to balance the Body Mind Spirit connection in a holistical way of healing.

The muscle test – Kinesiology uses a muscle test technique incorporating the muscle assessment of Kendall and Kendall from the 1940s with the ancient practice of Chinese medicine. With the muscle test the Body Intelligence is triggered.
While Applied/specialized Kinesiology is defined as a way of helping you to discover the exact cause of your health problems, its goal is to cancel the effects of defective Body Mind Spirit connection by asking the Body Intelligence (bio-computer) questions through muscle testing.

Applied Kinesiology ; Dr Goodheart's discovery – The discovery of Applied Kinesiology arose out of his observation that basic Chiropractic adjustments often were not providing complete relief for physical disabilities. The problem seemed to be related to muscle spasms that were not being released. Dr Goodheart delivered the first public presentation of Applied Kinesiology to the Charter Meeting of the American Chiropractic Association held in Denver, Colorado in 1964.

It is stated that Applied Kinesiology practitioners do not work with verbal questions and use hundreds of different muscle tests in the body, as opposed to Specialized/Energy Kinesiology practitioners who usually do work with energy-balancing, stress-defusion and dyslexia.

About Specialized Kinesiology – Touch for Health (TfH) – as it was named by its founder John Thie – was the first offspring of Applied Kinesiology into the stream that is now called Specialized Kinesiology. TfH has been taught to millions of people worldwide to use on family and friends.

Specialized Kinesiology as a whole has expanded much and is widely researched and practiced over the whole world. Specialized/Energy Kinesiology more often puts focus on the mental/emotional and energy aspects. Both forms of Kinesiology use massage, nutrition, energy reflexes, and counseling to balance the Body Mind Spirit connection in a holistic way of healing.

And yes, the practitioner may also follow the principles of Chinese medicine to correct areas of imbalance in the body after finding them with a muscle test. For example take Jimmy Scott's site about Health Kinesiology – a brand of BioEnergetic Kinesiology – uses the acupuncture meridian model of energy flow. Health Kinesiology (HK), founded by Jimmie Scott, is said to use "muscle testing/monitoring to identify the priority order of the energy balancing that needs to be done with his/her client, exactly what stresses are interfering with well being, and which energy balancing methods to use for that individual.

Today, practitioners who use applied/specialized kinesiology include chiropractors, naturopaths, physicians, dentists, nutritionists, physical therapists, massage therapists, and nurse practitioners. And the beauty of it all is, even though everyone uses manual muscle testing as a tool, every practiotioner finds his/her own application and methods and procedures.

So if you are inclined to look up multiple practitioners, don't be surprised to find differences in the approach, application and ways of correction that you will encounter. Finally it is up to you to choose the one that suites you best to get well!

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