Reflex Muscle Testing

How Is It Done?

We view the body as an entire electrical energy circuit. By touching each Reflex Point of the body, we are interrupting that circuit. If the corresponding organ or condition is balanced, then the brain will instantly be able to redirect that current so that the circuit will remain connected. If however there is an imbalance or block, then the circuit will be broken as long as the Reflex Point is touched. In order to evaluate the circuit, at the same time as the Reflex Point is touched, we will ask you to hold up your arm and resist against downward pressure on the wrist of the arm. If you cannot resist the slight pressure exerted, then the corresponding point is imbalanced because the circuit is not able to be maintained to the muscles of the arm. If the arm remains unaffected, then the corresponding point is balanced.

Then we introduce various of our natural remedies into your energy field by having you hold a small test vial of each one while we repeat the test of the imbalanced point. If the point is now balanced with the remedy, and your arm now remains strong under pressure, then this is the remedy for this particular weakness.

Beginning in the early 20th century …

During the polio epidemic, physicians developed a method of assessing muscle weakness, function and range of motion. But as muscle testing became popularized, there would be times that a muscle would test weak one day and strong the next, which created questions about what was actually influencing the muscle’s responses. Slowly physicians began to realize that nutrient status, emotional considerations and organ and gland disruption all could create sudden weakness or change in muscles.

In the 1960’s the concept of the body’s energy field began to be recognized along with the ideas used in meridian therapies such as acupuncture. These led to some chiropractors such as Dr. George Goodheart and Dr. Dick Versendaal creating a method for establishing points and techniques that would indicate nutritional, chemical and emotional imbalances that would influence the standard Manual Muscle Testing being used. Then by introducing particular remedies into the body’s energy field, the results of the reflex testing would change indicating a positive or a negative influence on the imbalanced points being tested.

This became the basis of Reflex Muscle Testing as we know it today. The first such system by Dr. George Goodheart was known as Applied Kinesiology, followed by Dr. Dick Versendaal who studied with Goodheart and then created his own system based on his research and practice, naming it Contact Reflex Analysis.

These are the two systems of evaluation that we use at Conscious Body today.