kinesiology

Back in my early career days, I woke up one morning with The Stiff Neck from Hell. I don't remember if it was from a sport activity, or from straining over a desktop computer too long, or for something completely unrelated. But I could not turn my neck at all: there was a wall of pain between...

The Chiropractor's rooms up the road from us have a new sign advertising all the wonderful types of 'treatments' available there. (Sorry for the blurriness) I guess these Chiropractors haven't heard that Chiropracty was trying to distance itself from blatant woo. Vibrational Kinesiology...

I'm too lazy to explain AK and priming here; so please google them. "Priming" is a term from cognitive linguistics. AK may be useless for testing the properties of a substance or its interaction with someone's body, but... it is probably effective as one test of priming. (E.g. someone thinks x...

Does anyone know anything about educational kinesiology or 'Brain gym'? Or know where I can find some good resources on the subject? I googled around, and there seems to be a lot of research that supports it. Some of the claims look a bit suspicious though.

:confused: I have kept quiet over the years about a very dear friend's escapades into woowoo activities (acupuncture, homeopathy, etc..). I eventually broke my silence when they were about to head off into a Malaria infested country armed only with homeopathic anti-malaria remedies, pleading...