History of Kinesiology

Applied kinesiology was discovered by DR George Goodheart in 1964, Dr George Goodheart, a Detroit-based chiropractor was one of those rare people who are able to make fantastic discoveries by looking at research from a different perspective and synthesising the information in a different way. Through trial and error, he brought manual muscle testing into the chiropractic field and then in the late 1960s made the linkage between muscle testing and energy systems of Chinese acupuncture.

He brought together work done by his predecessors: Chapman's points (for lymphatic function); Bennett's points (for vascular function); his own origin-insertion technique (for muscular problems); cranial bone manipulation, after William Sutherland, the work of upper cervical specialist Leon Lewis Truscott, and his work on the muscle-acupuncture meridian-organ relationship using muscle testing feedback for both diagnosis and therapeutic efficacy. This marked the beginning of the new science of Applied Kinesiology.

Dr John Thie, DC was the first to devise a plan to teach the public some basic rudiments of Applied Kinesiology, leaving out adjustments. Thie took the basic techniques that had been worked out in AK and developed a new system he called Touch for Health. He wanted to teach laypeople so that they could balance their own health as well as the health of their family and their close friend. Touch for Health made the basic techniques of AK available to ordinary people. 

Brian Bulter, brought basic AK over from the USA with the founder's permission for it to be known as Systematic Kinesiology in the UK. He names it this way since we are able to look at the body in a systematic and thorough way. In 1986, The Academy of Systematic Kinesiology was formed to offer a new syllabus that took advantage of the latest research and developments in kinesiology.