Muscle testing, What is it (muscle testing)? How does it (muscle testing) work? There is a lot of misconceptions
there's a lot of abuse some people ask me does muscle testing work I think
that's kind of like asking does language work you can use language to lie you can
use language to inform you can use language to deceive you can use muscle
testing for all of those purposes so it all depends on what are you trying to do
with it if you use it as a tool and you have some integrity it's a fabulous tool
so let's show you what it is so first of all if you hold your arm out parallel to
the ground keep that elbow straight so we're going to keep the person stable
we're not going to put the arm out here and pretend that we're pushing out here
and she falls over and call that a muscle test that's just silly but we
keep it where everyone is stable I get in close and I can just lean in very
very gently I'm gonna start applying a few ounces and then I gradually build up
to about a pound or two and what I'm looking for is a solid feel so right
there I got about two pounds of pressure I have what I call a lock all right so
I'm pushing on the bone the bone is held up by muscle the muscle is controlled by
a signal from the brain so we're checking all three components in that
muscle test so just to make sure we know the feeling here I'm leaning in I got
two pounds and it's really nice and solid I have a lock now if you move your
right leg forward please a little bit more right there so now we're gonna do
this again everyone is still perfectly stable there is no pushing anyone over
now we start with ounces we gradually increase I feel for that lock and there
is no lock all right there is no solid place where that resistance matches so
what's the difference thank you what's the difference
between the muscle function here and here while the bone hasn't changed the
muscle hasn't changed they're still there they're physiologically the exact
same but the muscle function changes because the signal from the brain
changes so when we use it like this it's a neurological reflex just like if some
if you're sitting with a foot dangling and someone taps your your knee you're
gonna get a patellar reflex your nervous system is supposed to behave a certain
way well here when you put the leg forward your brain interprets that as
walking because normally when you walk a leg goes forward and the brain also
knows that this is not very useful when you try to walk it has practiced this
ever since you started crawling your brain learned that there's something
called cross crawl that looks like this so when we are in this position the
brain is going to try to turn this muscle off it's going to inhibit that
muscle so you can swing back so let's check that if you move your left leg
forward now this looks like the cross crawl pattern that the brain recognizes
everyone is stable we go real real slow we feel for the lock and there's a
perfect lock okay you can feel that difference good and so now this pattern
matches and the brain is going to turn on this muscle is going to facilitate
that muscle all right so step back for me now with experience
of tens of thousands of doctors on tens of thousands of patients we have learned
that there are different things that are normal and different things that are
abnormal so this is normal to in hibbett this is normal to facilitate so
everyone has a little button if you will sitting right here that we can use to
practice this and you can do the same at home if you like it's the skill it's an
art it takes a while to learn but there's nothing magical about it and
match for me so here we get a an unlock or an inhibition here we get a lock or a
facilitation so it's just a great way to practice if
you want to learn how this works now there are other things that we can check
to see if the nervous system is behaving normally and because you are a person
with a brain and a heart those organs are electrical they communicate and act
through electricity that means your body is an electromagnetic field and I am an
electromagnetic field so if I put my hand into your field I'm going to change
certain aspects of how your nervous system is communicating and this is by
the way it's not controversial we are electromagnetic fields and when
you put two electromagnetic fields together they're going to affect each
other that's just pure physics so one thing that we know is that the belly
button has certain energies that are pretty sensitive so it's a good place to
start so if I put my hand here and I push and we test that arm I get an
unlock and that's a normal response for someone that doesn't get that unlock we
called it that the regulation is blocked or stuck that means their nervous system
is not processing it's not turning things on and off with the sensitivity
that we need for the body to heal and adapt and do the
it's supposed to and we've also found that there usually a number of different
stressors that interfere with the body to cause it to be stuck okay so that's
one of the things that you want to address or find someone who can address
it because that is usually one of the most important barriers to healing
people have tried hundred different things and they just can't seem to to
get any better very often the body is just kind of
stuck so I hope that helps we please comment on the video subscribe so you
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any inconsistencies that you have we'd love to try to clear those up for you
and again don't come and just say that oh there's no way that this can work
because it does if it's something you don't understand then just inform
yourself okay it's pure physics it's pure neurology there's nothing strange
about it it does take a little bit of practice so be patient if it's something
that you'd like to learn it comes in very handy because you can start
checking things whether you have certain sensitivities or food intolerances
they're ways that that even a layperson can use this to their advantage so let
me know if you learn something if you have questions if you have experiences
with it and we'd love to have a dialogue about this thank you