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Applied Kinesiology is a system of healing that uses muscle testing to access information from  many levels of the body. The doctor asks the patient to hold a a position and tests a specific muscle by applying a small amount of pressure. This activates the muscle stress reflex which is similar to the familiar tendon reflex.
Applied Kinesiology has developed into a comprehensive system of diagnosis and treatment that is used by thousands of practitioners worldwide, including chiropractors, dentists, acupuncturists and medical doctors. It is more widely known and respected in Europe, Australia and New Zealand than in the United States.
 At a basic level, Applied Kinesiology can be used to diagnose and correct muscle weakness and imbalances. It has been popular with athletes and trainers. Applied Kinesiology can also be used to access information about the state of internal organs, nutritional status and even emotional issues. This is because any stress at any level will cause a reflex "weakening" of a muscle. Even the strongest patient cannot hold a muscle that is inhibited by a signal from the brain indicating that a major stressor has been identified.
I have found that Applied Kinesiology is the quickest and most efficient method of finding the cause of your health problem. Often these findings can be verified by other means such as laboratory testing and I always welcome the opportunity to have hard evidence backing up findings based on kinesiology. I frequently find things which neither the patient or I had suspected and which were later verified by other tests. I once saw a patient for back pain who mentioned that he felt an unusual tightness in his chest. Using Applied Kinesiology I found a bacterial infection which I suspected was pleurisy, an infection of the outer cover of the lungs, even though he had relatively low level symptoms. It turned out he was taking a drug called an immune modulator, which was subsequently withdrawn from the market because it allowed uncontrolled infections. He saw his medical doctor who confirmed the finding and placed him on antibiotics for what could have been a very serious condition.
Applied Kinesiology is particularly helpful in identifying muscle imbalances which may be affecting  posture or causing pain. Muscles all work in pairs and these pairs need to be in balance. When one muscle is weak, its pair tends to become short and tight. We can usually fix a tight, painful muscle by finding and fixing it's weak pair. For example, many people complain of tight trapezius muscles -- the muscle between the neck and shoulder that tends to hold tension. The trapezius muscle pulls the shoulder blade up while it's opposite, the latissimus dorsi, or "lats", pulls the shoulder blade down. So a weak latissimus dorsi is a common cause of a tight and painful trapezius. You can massage the traps all day, apply heat, electrical stim, etc. But the spasm will come back if you do not fix the cause.
What corrects a weak muscle? There are reflex points that work much like resetting a circuit breaker. But like a circuit breaker, many times we have to look deeper. The problem can be a spinal subluxation which can be corrected by a chiropractic adjustment. In the case of the latissimus dorsi weakness this tends to come from the part of the spine at the base of the rib cage. This muscle is also associated with the spleen meridian and spleen and pancreas organs. The spleen system can be stressed by allergies, the pancreas by blood sugar handling issues, or the spleen meridian by a problem in the liver or by emotions associated with a need for nurturing or mother energy. Many structural problems are the result of injury or mechanical stress, but when addressing these issues does not fix the problem, Applied Kinesiology can be invaluable in looking for deeper causes.
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