TESTING

We use techniques and therapies combined with scientific testing and technology to create a unique health program for your situation. Below are some of the testing procedures that we use to help us determine the best way to support your specific health concerns. .

Scientific Testing and Technologies

Autonomic Nervous System Quantitative Assessment (Nerve-Express)

Nerve Express is an automatic computer-based system that provides a Quantitative Assessment of the state of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Nerve-Express uses technology that has been extensively researched for over twenty years and tested on over fourteen thousand patients. The Nerve-Express test, called the Orthostatic Test, is a simple procedure that takes only a few minutes to administer and allows ANS assessment using a very easy, acceptable, and predicable means of measuring ANS stress.

 

Blood and Urine Analysis

Specialty blood testing, such as Food Antibody Assessment Panels, a Urinary Metabolic Profile and/or Environmental Pollutants Profile are valuable tools with specific functions. These give the practitioner and patient valuable information that can be used to quickly gather information or in chronic, difficult or severe cases. They often reveal a clear picture of an underlying cause, so precision treatment recommendations can be given to patients. 

DNA (AncestryDNA.com)

The recent advances in genetic research have reached a point where practitioners can look at specific genes and what their functions are. With the completion of the genome project, research is growing as studies are being conducted and associations being made as to the relevance of genetic variants (defects) or SNiP’s (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) to the cause of disease. One such area of research has led to a major breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue syndrome and much more. This connection between our genetic variants and disease has revealed the importance of the methylation cycle. The methylation cycle is a metabolic pathway in the body that is critical to maintaining health and is involved in many regulatory processes where genetic variants can be particularly damaging. The good news is that practitioners now have ways to bypass these variants with specific targeted nutrients and restore normal functioning to the body.

An AncestryDNA (genetic) test kit can be ordered from our office or online at www.AncestryDNA.com

Medical Body Composition Analyzer (Seca.com)

A healthy body composition is the foundation for maximum performance, for feeling well and for preventing chronic diseases. Every patient is as unique as their treatment and therapy plans. No matter the treatment or therapy plan, a change in lifestyle can be seen in body composition from a Medical Body Composition Analyzer.

This device accurately measures body composition and evaluates causes of weight changes; gives a detailed body composition analysis for determining and adjusting nutrition therapies; gives immediate visualization of how a patient is responding to treatment; provides detection of early signs of sarcopenia and other precursors of aging and assesses cardiometabolic risk by determining visceral fat volume. 

Heart Sound Recorder

Certain types of heart stress can be monitored by visualizing the rate, rhythm and tone of the heart cycle. As a result, the heart’s reaction to certain stressors, i.e. chemical, nutritional and emotional, can be observed using this type of device. The response to certain stimuli can be monitored by observing changes of the frequency, ratio, amplitude and characteristics of the heart’s waveform. Comparison graphs can help determine the effectiveness of actions taken to improve the quality of life.

Alternative Techniques and Therapies     

Applied Kinesiology

Applied Kinesiology (AK) is the study of muscles and the relationship of muscle strength to health. It is based on principles of functional neurology, anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, and biochemistry as well as principles from Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and massage. AK incorporates a system of manual muscle testing and therapy and is based on the theory that an organ dysfunction is accompanied by a specific muscle weakness.

Clinical Observations

Hippocrates (460-377 BC) is universally recognized as the father of clinical medicine, which is based on observation of clinical signs and rational conclusions (Clinical Observations). Observational diagnosis is also one of the four diagnosis methods used in Chinese medicine. It consists of: observing the spirit (temperament), color, body form, tongue, face, five senses, skin and asking what is eliminated or secreted from the body. This information and more are vital to the understanding of a patient’s needs.

Foundational Nutritional Therapy

Foundational Nutritional Therapy consists of many hands-on tests that were extensively used as part of the physical exam taught in most medical schools throughout the 1940s and 1950s. They offer a quick and easy evaluation that looks at function vs. pathology.

Mental-Emotional-Body Techniques

Contemporary neuroscience has demonstrated that emotion and our stress responses are largely related to a physiological response in our body. Mental-Emotional-Body Techniques can correct emotional stressors that are related to a physical problem and ease the bodies need to react negatively to the emotional stressors.

Wholistic Methylation

Genetic variants (defects) in the methylation pathways can lead to chronic illness and disease. Wholistic Methylation enables the evaluation of these genetic variants using DNA testing and kinesiology. This combination of diagnostic information can give practitioners incredibly valuable information into why these diseases happen and how they can build a nutritional bridge around genetic variants to normalize function.