Applied Kinesiology uses manual muscle testing as a holistic diagnostic tool to assess the body's energy systems and provide feedback on overall wellness and sources of imbalance. It aims to prevent disease by helping patients understand their body's signals and address underlying physical and emotional stressors through diet, lifestyle changes, and energy medicine techniques. Research supports its effectiveness as a non-invasive way to maintain health and treat various conditions by restoring communication and balance across the body's interconnected systems.

1. What is Applied
Kinesiology?
Nathan Schilaty, DC

2. Energetic Medicine
• “The doctor of the future will • "We're beginning now to
give no medicine, but will understand things that we
interest his patients in the care know in our hearts are true but
of the human body, in diet, and we could never measure. As
in the cause and prevention of we get better at understanding
disease.” how little we know about the
- Thomas Edison body, we begin to realize that
the next big frontier … in
medicine is energy medicine.
It's not the mechanistic part of
• “The day is near at hand when the joints moving. It's not the
the doctor will no longer be chemistry of our body. It's
engaged to patch up the sick understanding for the first time
man, but to prevent him from how energy influences how we
getting sick. Each family will feel.”
select a doctor and pay him so - Dr. Mehmet Oz
much a year.”
- 1908 Newspaper Article

3. Applied Kinesiology
• Holistic approach to health
• Useful as a diagnostic tool
• Energy medicine
• Prevention, Healing, and
Maintenance
• Researched
• International Organization -
ICAK

4. With AK, Feel the Difference
• Your body talks
• This is called
“biofeedback”
• Very similar to a
dashboard of a car
• Binary system
• “Yes” or “No”
• Constant feedback
reaches the brain

5. Brain at Work
• Each second 1 trillion messages
reach brain
– 200 out of 1 trillion we are consciously
aware of
• Info gets filtered from conscious mind
– Example: Clothes on your back
– You did not feel them until you just read that…
• What percent is unconscious?
• 1 trillion / 200 = Basically 100%!!!

6. Preventing Problems
• When one can “listen” to their car, they
can prevent problems
• Running out of gas
• Running low on oil
• Servicing engine
• With knowing biofeedback from the body,
we can similarly “listen” to the body and
prevent problems, treat ailments, and
maintain our health!

7. Discovery of AK
• Dr. George Goodheart – 1964
• Found weak muscle on patient
• 15 year muscle weakness
• Strength returned after rubbing tender points
• First chiropractor - U. S. Olympic Medical Team in 1980
• Manual muscle test = Body is own diagnostic tool
• Biomedicine
• Osteopathy
• Acupuncture
• Dentistry
• Nutrition
• Biochemistry

8. Causes of Disease (2008)
• Toxins
• Trauma
• Thoughts / Emotions
• Nutrition
• Allergies
• Electromagnetic Radiation

9. What is Treated?
• Nerves
• NeuroLymphatic
• NeuroVascular
• Cranials
• Acupuncture
Meridians
• Nutrition

10. Additional Facts
• Diagnostic Tool
• Non-invasive
• Effective
• Result driven
• See and Feel the difference
• May not understand it… but that does not mean
it does not work!
• Example: How many people truly understand electricity?
– Yet how many people use it successfully?

11. Body Connections
• Everything is connected!
• Fatigue / Stress
• Weight gain
• Emotions
• Depression
• Arthritis
• Muscle pain
• Body extremely complex…
• Ask the body... the body knows best!

12. Ease vs. Dis-ease
• Ease = state of perfect health
• Stress  Dis-ease  Disease
• Maintain health by maintaining EASE!
• Listen to the body