Applied kinesiology

Applied kinesiology (not to be confused with kinesiology,File:Wikipedia's W.svg the scientific study of human movement) is a major chiropractic-based woo that is based on the idea that the way your muscles respond to being pushed against can tell the "doctor" what you're suffering from, including food sensitivity (as distinct from actual immune response), toxins, and electromagnetic hypersensitivity.[1] It has even been claimed that applied kinesiology can detect parasites from "parasite energy signatures".[2] Apparently the practice can also be used to turn your body into a human lie detector.[3] The things these people believe…

Against allopathy
Alternative medicine
Clinically unproven
v - t - e

(In)efficacy

In general, any treatment or diagnosis administered by applied kinesiology tends to be outperformed by standard medical diagnosis and treatment for the particular condition.[4]. For many muscles groups, different kinesiologists were unable to make the same diagnosis as one another,[5] suggesting that the the techniques lack any functional unifying theory. For diagnosing nutrition related problems, applied kinesiology is as accurate as random guesses.[4]

Scam

The applied kinesiology scam is a trick used by some chiropractors and purveyors of "power bracelets" to fool someone concerning the efficacy of an object or therapy. It entails placing someone in an unstable position or touching them in a way designed to momentarily distract them then pushing or pulling on them to make them unbalanced. The procedure is then repeated but with the aid of the 'magic' item, however, this time the subject is subconsciously prepared for the action and is able to successfully resist the pushing or pulling.

A Skeptic Zone Podcast shows how it is done:

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gollark: Yes, they could probably just put basically anything in there and it would be hard to do anything about it.
gollark: No, I mean it would be hard to do in the various open source OSes.
gollark: > Maybe you've never thought about this, but if there are 100 devs working for free you'd only need to hire 50 devs to compromise all their code.That's, um, still quite a lot given the large amounts of developers involved, and code review exists, and this kind of conspiracy could *never* stay secret for very long, and if you have an obvious backdoor obvious people are fairly likely to look at it and notice.
gollark: Those are increasingly not working because of better security in stuff, which is probably good.
gollark: There is actually a wikipedia page for that.

See also

References
  1. "Applied kinesiology," AZ Multicare website, accessed September 2, 2019.
  2. New Paradigm Healing: Parasite Elimination
  3. http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-do-kinesiology-self-muscle-test-224193/
  4. Applied Kinesiology Dr. Weil's Wellness Therapies
  5. INTEREXAMINER AGREEMENT FOR APPLIED KINESIOLOGY MANUAL MUSCLE TESTING Arden Lawson, and Lawrence Calderon
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