• Cuthbert S

• Chiropractic
• Kinesiology, Applied
• Open Access Document
• Palmer, Daniel David, 1845-1913
• Sensorimotor Cortex

Narrative: All Chiropractors would appreciate that the founder, DD Palmer, stated in the frontispiece to his 1910 textbook that ‘Chiropractic is founded on tone’. 

This seemingly straightforward proposition has been given different meanings, more recently by Chiropractors with advance academic studies wanting to grant the phrase an almost mystical meaning of Universal Intelligence culminating in Innate Intelligence. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in Stephenson’s ‘33 Principles’. 

In this paper I show that the muscle system is ‘the most exposed part of the nervous system’ and as such we can, through Manual Muscle Testing as refined within AK Protocols, create a window into the functioning and dysfunctioning of the neuromuscular system as it affects health and well-being. 

Chiropractic applied kinesiology assesses alterations in the human sensory-motor continuum and it achieves this based on sound principles without the need for appeal to mystical universal forces. We cannot make meaningful statements at all about an assumed ‘real universe’, or ‘deep reality’ or ‘first mover’ or ‘Universal Intelligence’ underlying this world and the neuro-musculoskeletal systems within our patients 

Author keywords: Chiropractic - AK - Applied Kinesiology - Human sensory-motor continuum - Stephenson 
 
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