06/11/2020
FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY of APPLIED KINESIOLOGY AROUND THE WORLD PUBLISHED (Part 1 of 2)
In this long-awaited history about the growth and spread of Professional Applied Kinesiology (PAK) around the world, thirteen contributing authors and teachers of this manual diagnostic technique tell the story of PAK’s growth on each of the continents of the world and its pe*******on into allied natural health care fields. This story documents the detailed, colorful journey of the permeation of AK manual muscle testing (MMT) methods and philosophy into the daily practice of hundreds of thousands of clinicians. Illustrated throughout with historical pictures covering over 5 decades, this is the first comprehensive history of PAK around the world.
Dr. George J. Goodheart Jr., the founder of Applied Kinesiology, showed how the muscle system is the most exposed part of the nervous system. Diagnosing neuromuscular problems with manual muscle testing has proven to offer a great appeal to clinicians from all the healing disciplines, as evidenced by the fact that there are today an estimated 1 million clinicians who use some or all of Goodheart’s PAK method. From the chiropractic colleges in the United States, to the osteopathic and chiropractic colleges across Europe and Australasia, to massage and acupuncture and naturopathic colleges, PAK methods have been uniquely successful in reaching health care professionals and their patients around the world today.
Applied Kinesiology has looked beyond the chiropractic profession to the fields of biomedicine, osteopathy, naturopathy, physiotherapy, acupuncture, dentistry, nutrition, biochemistry, and others for methods to increase the health and well-being of patients based on using the body itself as a diagnostic tool.
This history details the intimate whys and the hows of a single chiropractic and alternative health care technique’s journey across the world, and answers the question about why it has been taken up by physicians from a great number of healing disciplines. PAK is a microcosm of the entirety of alternative and complementary medicine (a grassroots rebellion against hospital-based and allopathic medicine). It’s a true romance and an intense social-political story unique in the history of the healing arts.
https://www.townsendletter.com/article/449-professional-applied-kinesiology-history/
