Verbal Questioning

Some kinesiology systems, such as health kinesiology, make extensive use of verbal muscle testing. The response of a correctly positioned muscle to light pressure can be either to lock or unlock. The kinesiologist uses this to ask verbal questions: the locked response...

Polarity and Testing

Some kinesiologists use two fingers when testing and/or correcting, because they see the fingers as having a negative or positive polarity. By using two adjacent fingers the effect of this polarity is cancelled out.

Surrogate Testing

Small babies, the mentally and physically handicapped, frail old people and animals can all be tested using surrogate testing. The practitioner will muscle test someone (the surrogate) who is holding or touching the client. It is commonly thought to work best if the...

Self Testing

Sometimes, rather than testing the client’s muscles, practitioners will use themselves as a surrogate, testing a muscle of their own, usually a finger. This can be much faster than testing the client’s muscles. It is also used if, for some reason, the client cannot be...

Holographic Testing

Richard D. Utt, L.Ac (Applied Physiology) developed holographic testing. Each muscle has a strong, primary relationship with a specific Meridian, and this is tested in the standard Muscle Response Testing (MRT), but the muscle also has a secondary connection with all...