Muscle Testing
How to test the strong man
12/10/08 08:15
With difficult men, the problem is that they think that if a muscle tests weak, that they are weak ...and they don't want that! With these kinds of men, I tell them the following story:
When you have a VW bus, you can run it for years with just oil and gas... and it runs about as well as a VW bus does. However, if you have a high-performance race car, it requires much fine tuning quite often to run as well as it can.
Similarly, if you have a VW bus kind of body, you find few weak testing muscles. Such a body doesn't perform at high levels, but it just keeps going. However, if you have a highly trained fit body, you will find more weak-testing muscles. Balancing the weak-testing muscles is one way you help a high-performance body to perform at its optimal level.
Weak-testing muscles have nothing to do with being weak. A strong man can still lift huge weights even when some of his muscles test weak. Balancing or "strengthening" weak-testing muscles doesn't make them stronger. Rather, it improves their fine coordination and timing.
If you tell this story well, the strong man is proud when several muscles test weak - and he allows them to test weak. When a muscle begins to weaken (while you are testing it), don't push further. Instead, ask the man if he felt the softening. Help him to become aware of the fine communication from his own body.
After balancing the patient, I "provoke" the corrections I performed. For structural corrections, I'll have the patient move around and put stress into the posture - then retest the muscles that were weak-testing. I'll similarly provoke emotional corrections and retest. I want the patient to be able to meet daily stresses without going easily back out of balance.
When I correct a specific muscle, I may touch each of the treatment points afterwards as a challenge. If one of these (NL, NV, alarm point etc.) causes the muscle to again weaken, it needs further balancing.
--Dr. Robert Frost
When you have a VW bus, you can run it for years with just oil and gas... and it runs about as well as a VW bus does. However, if you have a high-performance race car, it requires much fine tuning quite often to run as well as it can.
Similarly, if you have a VW bus kind of body, you find few weak testing muscles. Such a body doesn't perform at high levels, but it just keeps going. However, if you have a highly trained fit body, you will find more weak-testing muscles. Balancing the weak-testing muscles is one way you help a high-performance body to perform at its optimal level.
Weak-testing muscles have nothing to do with being weak. A strong man can still lift huge weights even when some of his muscles test weak. Balancing or "strengthening" weak-testing muscles doesn't make them stronger. Rather, it improves their fine coordination and timing.
If you tell this story well, the strong man is proud when several muscles test weak - and he allows them to test weak. When a muscle begins to weaken (while you are testing it), don't push further. Instead, ask the man if he felt the softening. Help him to become aware of the fine communication from his own body.
After balancing the patient, I "provoke" the corrections I performed. For structural corrections, I'll have the patient move around and put stress into the posture - then retest the muscles that were weak-testing. I'll similarly provoke emotional corrections and retest. I want the patient to be able to meet daily stresses without going easily back out of balance.
When I correct a specific muscle, I may touch each of the treatment points afterwards as a challenge. If one of these (NL, NV, alarm point etc.) causes the muscle to again weaken, it needs further balancing.
--Dr. Robert Frost