Talk:Applied kinesiology
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Someone felt the civic duty to insert parts of the previous article in a heading to the article. I deleted it because the definition of AK they provided was innaccurate. (damn right I'm a proponent of applied kinesiology). kleindoc
These former entries on Applied Kinesiology focus on a minor curiosity within AK without recognizing the main thrust of the technique and its contribution towards understanding complex biomechanical mechanisms. Crude muscle testing can indeed confirm whatever false findings the expectation of the Dr. or subject desires. The point is that careful muscle testing, with efforts to isolate the prime mover and observation to detect recruitment does give useful information about function in associated joints. kleindoc; 7/22/03.
- since the methods used are easily explained with the placebo effect and suggestion, and the explanations offered by its practitioners radically depart from accepted scientific knowledge. In fact, some of the techniques have been used in conjuring tricks for many years.
- For example, suppose the patient has a Candida infection, which the pratitioner believes can be healed with pau d'arco. The patient holds his arm horizontally while the doctor tries to push it down. Then the patient touches the infected area with the other hand and the muscle holding up the arm goes weak and the doctor easily pushes it down. He then puts some pau d'arco on his tongue and touches the infection; this time the muscle remains strong.
- Such "diagnoses" serve merely to reinforce the expectations of the practitioner and the patient.
This is one of those highly POV approaches to the subject. If you're going to make claims about easily explainable methods, you should at least state what methods you are trying to explain. Departure from "accepted scientific knowledge" is not a sufficient argument to make something pseudoscience.
The "candida" paragraph strikes me a a "straw man" type of argument. It begins with a technique that might be accepted by a minority of knesiologists, ridicules it, and uses that as a "proof" that the entire subject is pseudoscience.
Also what "expectations" are trying to be reinforced? Eclecticology 19:06 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)