What’s Muscle Integration?

Muscle Integration benefits people of all ages regardless of their physical activity. I just focus on Martial Artists because, well, I’m a Martial Artist!

I use Clinical Kinesiology to integrate your muscles so that they can work together smoothly, and operate with smooth and consistent timing. It is a proprietary technique that addresses imbalances in the system through many systems including the neuromuscular system, neurovascular system, neurolymphatic system, and Chinese meridian system.

Clinical Kinesiology was developed by the late Dr. Alan Beardall, DC. It’s practiced all over the world, but there are very few Certified Clinical Kinesiologists in the US – and all but two of them are Doctors! His son, Dr. Christopher Beardall, DC, LAc, carries on the work today out of his clinic in Woodburn, OR.

How Does Muscle Integration Work?

Clinical Kinesiology targets muscles that are not ‘talking’ to your nervous system properly and ‘turns them on’ so they can integrate and work smoothly with each other.

If one muscle is tight and over-working because another muscle is not doing its job, loosening up the stressed muscle won’t solve the problem. Physical Therapy and Massage Therapy tend to focus on either building up a weak muscle or relaxing an over-worked muscle. If you think about it, if a muscle is not ‘talking’ correctly, it can’t fully respond to strength training or massage, no matter how good the practitioner.

By ‘turning on’ muscles that cannot ‘talk’, Clinical Kinesiology can be an incredibly quick and effective method of optimizing your individual and group muscle performance.

The result is that you move your body from a place of strength, power, flexibility and coordination.

Why Should I Include Muscle Integration In My Physical Maintenance Routine?

Muscle Integration is an excellent part of your regular routine. By getting regular sessions, you keep your body ‘talking’ to itself. The work is a perfect complement and enhancement to any fitness routine, massage therapy, physical therapy or other program that you might already be enjoying.

You see, muscle weakness is not just an indication of a problem with the strength of a specific muscle, but in general indicates possible imbalances in a whole system of organs and tissues that are associated with the specific muscle by the meridian that energizes all of them. Therefore, just balancing the muscle itself to strength may not affect what’s causing that weakness if that cause is located in an organ or other tissue.

Since Clinical Kinesiology can address the organs or other tissues through the proprietary system, the client benefits from a ‘whole body’ approach.

If the problem is a local injury to the muscle, then using Clinical Kinesiology to perform specific muscle testing and balancing of the associated components for stress reduction is appropriate: for example, neurolymphatic reflexes, neurovascular reflexes, vertebral level, muscle acupuncture point, nutrition, cranial bones, and foot bones.

If the imbalance is not in a specific muscle, then group muscle testing is more informative since it gives a broader view of the body’s stresses and can more easily be used to evaluate all the different minicomputers rather than just the local minicomputer. It is like taking a poll of a large number of related databases instead of just one small database.

The information on this page contains a rendition of an article written by Robert Shane and the Pacific Northwest Foundation, ‘Clinical Kinesiology – the Cornerstone of Biocomputer Communication’, as well as conversations with Mr. Shane and Dr. Christopher Beardall, DC, LAc. We thank the late Dr. Alan Beardall, his son Dr. Christopher Beardall, and Mr. Shane for their tremendous contributions to the science and study of Clinical Kinesiology.