Explanation of Muscle Testing
Many patients ask me questions about the adjusting techniques and due to the fact that I don’t always have time in the office to explain it fully to each patient, I have decided to print these notes.

If you’ve heard my talk on Chiropractic, then you are familiar with the following facts. At birth we are born perfect; that is, all muscles are completely balanced, all nerves are normal, and all organs and tissues are functioning 100%. As a result of this, we also have perfect posture with level hips, level shoulders, and level head. This is present until we are subject to some type of stress beyond what our body is able to adapt.

Remember, we are constantly under stress every moment of our lives. We are under physical stress from gravity, from our occupations, straining, lifting, slips and jars. We are under dietary stress from the foods we eat or the lack of proper foods. We are under stress if we don’t get enough sleep or if we don’t exercise our bodies enough. We are also under stress from our emotions. Every problem in our life, whether it has to do with our families, our jobs, or whatever, is a stress. As you can see, there are many different types of stresses. Normally our body can handle all of these stresses and adapts to them.

However, sometimes we are subjected to stresses beyond what the body can handle. When this occurs, our bodies actually shut down or turn off certain parts of our body in an effort to protect other parts. This is very similar to the breaker switches in our house shutting off if the wire is overloaded.

These systems that shut down can involve nerves, blood vessels, lymphatic drainage, muscles, and actual organs. Here we can see that if these systems are left turned off for an extended time, malfunction and disease can occur in the tissues involved. This could result in stomach problems, kidney malfunctions, heart disorders, pain, headaches, back pain, etc. This depends entirely on the tissues involved.

It is important here to note that as long as all parts of the body are working normally, good health will be the end result. Health comes from inside the body. Along with these systems being turned off, muscles are blocked and do not work.

It is important again to mention that for each muscle pulling in one direction in our body, there is a muscle on the other side pulling exactly the opposite way. In other words all muscles are counter-balanced. If one muscle pulls with 90 pounds of pressure, then the muscle that opposes it also pulls with 90 pounds of pressure. As long as all muscles are balanced, we have good posture and our spine is held erect in its normal position.

However, if a muscle becomes blocked today, say perhaps in the lower part of your spine, you will not feel any symptoms. But now, the muscle that normally balances the blocked muscle will begin to pull harder due to the imbalance. It will keep getting tighter and tighter until one day it will be under such a severe stress that it will pull a part of the spine that it attaches to out of place. When the vertebrae goes out of place, the nerve gets irritated. Now there develops a loss of function in the tissues that the irritated nerve supplies and the body resistance is lowered and disease can occur. The time that has elapsed between when the muscle first became blocked until symptoms of the disease were present may be as long s 10 to 15 months. In other words, by the time the symptoms appear, we have been sick a long time.

Now, muscles get blocked and turned off for many reasons. It can be due to the cranial stress centers on the skull being turned off. It can be due to cranial bones being jammed, vertebrae out of place, and even bones jammed in our feet. All of the different muscle testing that I do is in order to find what is turning the muscles and systems of the body off and correct it. As the muscles are turned on again, the spine rebalances and posture returns to normal along with increased availability of overall body energy.

During the testing procedures Dr. Eisenberg will be touching spots on your head, spine, feet, etc.: sometimes they will push on a joint or perhaps stretch it to see if it is normal. For every person’s health problems, there is something turned off in the body. All we have to do is find it and turn it on again so that the body can once again get the messages needed to function properly. Rebalancing the spinal muscles, getting the pressure off the nerves, and turning all the systems on again is what gets sick people well.

Once you are healthy, it is very important to have regular Chiropractic check-ups. These checkups act to prevent future misalignments that occur when every day stresses accumulate and turn off function in the body. We want to be sure to keep everything turned on so that you can lead a healthy, happy life and do the things you enjoy doing without disability or pain.