By

Simon King B.App.Sc.(Chiro), DIBAK, MACA
Lower Limb

Muscle Testing for the Foot, Knee and Hip

In this video I try to cover all the muscles you are likely to need to check in the ankle, foot, knee and hip.
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Testing the Adductors

It’s important to make the adductors part of your clinical examination as it will help you figure out what’s really going on with difficult pelvic stability, low back issues and hip issues.
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Where It All Started

Lesley had severe muscle inhibition. She was the ideal test for my new ideas. As you can see from the video below (shot in terrible VHS), the diagnosis was spot on and her eighteen years of deteriorating health ended instantly when the faulty afferent input was removed.
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Afferentology Masterclass 2019

Chronic pain affects between one-third and one-half of the population of the UK, corresponding to just under 28 million adults. The causes are multifactorial and are therefore largely overlooked in favour of pain management.
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Research: Individuals vs Averages

Good science measures the outcome of an intervention on a subject and compares that with the outcome of that same intervention on a control. The less identical the subject and control, the less reliable will be the outcome.
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A Muscle Tone Experiment

My attempt to reproduce the protocols used by the landmark study in the British Medical Journal.
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Slipped Disc From A Dental Crown

Watch this dramatic return to strength and normal mobility as this patient bites down on a gold crown.
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Pilates Teacher

Your Teeth Are Important To Your Body

"Simon instantly diagnosed this as coming from a root filling and crown that had been done some time ago, but my slight scepticism and cautiousness about the cost involved in replacing this caused me to delay taking his advice."
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Headaches Gone With One Adjustment

In this video you see how putting her head forward and down makes her shoulder weak. This weakness is occurring because in this position, she is using her neck extensor muscles (which are inhibited).
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Why Afferent Input Matters

Our health is largely determined by our ability to withstand external forces so the Afferent Input Solution gives health practitioners the tools they need to be able to assess your patient’s ability to withstand an external force by looking for their most significant weakness or weakest link.
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Uncontrollable Movements Caused By An Apicectomy

This young man was distressed by the uncontrollable shaking of his head and neck which made him look nervous even when he wasn't. He never suspected the real culprit was a piece of dentistry he had as a teenager.
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Muscle Weakness Caused by Belly Piercing

Removing this dancer's belly piercing resulted in a noticeable improvement in her strength and movement - essential for someone whose livelihood depends on physical prowess.
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An Unexpected Trigger For Acute Low Back Pain

Many of us experience back pain from time to time. Sometimes it is mild, sometimes it is debilitating. Often the cause is unexplained...until the patient's afferent input is properly tested by a trained afferentologist.
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The Myotatic Reflex

The Myotatic Reflex (sometimes myotactic reflex) is probably our body’s most unrecognised and unappreciated defence mechanism.
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Increased Range of Motion Without Exercise

In this video you will see how we found weakness in the toe extensors causing limited range of motion in the ankles of a golf professional.
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Earrings Causing Hip Pain

My right hip had started to cause me a great deal of pain. While I was still mobile, I was constantly aware of this aching that never left me, and it felt like it was gradually getting worse.
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The Withdrawal Reflex

Without a direct connection between your skin and your muscles, the pain warning would have had to travel all the way to your brain, be interpreted and wait for you to send messages to your arm - wasting valuable milliseconds as your hand sizzled.
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