da admin | Nov 30, 2021 | Vocabulary
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...
da admin | Nov 30, 2021 | Vocabulary
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...
da admin | Nov 30, 2021 | Vocabulary
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...
da admin | Nov 29, 2021 | Vocabulary
Analogue testing was developed by Alan Sales. He noticed that when he tested a muscle through the range of its motion (from contraction to extension), there would sometimes be a ‘blip’ in the smooth change of position of the arm or leg being tested. Alan saw this as...
da admin | Nov 29, 2021 | Vocabulary
Originally the terms ‘strong’ (Strong Muscle) and ‘weak’ (Weak Muscle) were used to describe whether or not a muscle held during testing. This is probably as a result of kinesiology’s origins in chiropractic, where muscle testing was undertaken to establish the...
da admin | Nov 29, 2021 | Vocabulary
Whether practitioners call it Muscle Response Testing (MRT), muscle monitoring or muscle feedback, the basic process is the same. Muscle testing is a painless procedure involving the practitioner applying gentle pressure to specific parts of the body (often arms and...
