Kinesiology is a form of healing that involves several different aspects, including the patient’s structural, mental and chemical makeup. It uses several different methods of diagnosis, most of which are standard, but one of these is muscle testing. Not to be confused with standard kinesiology (which is the study of mechanics and principles in movement), applied kinesiology seeks to therapeutically restore balance and harmony within the body. To achieve this balance (which leads to better health and well-being), applied kinesiology uses several approaches. These include acupuncture, exercise, chiropractic manipulation and adjustment, and nutritional diet changes.

Kinesiology is defined primarily as the use of muscle testing to identify imbalances in the body's structural, chemical, emotional or other energy, to establish the body's priority healing needs, and to evaluate energy changes brought about by a broad spectrum of both manual and non-manual therapeutic procedures.

Kinesiology, therefore, may be understood as a system of natural health care which combines muscle monitoring with the principles of Chinese medicine to assess energy and body function, applying a range of gentle yet powerful healing techniques to improve health, wellbeing and vitality.

Kinesiology is often called 'muscle balancing' or 'energy balancing' helping the body into a better position to heal itself or reach a specified goal by 'balancing' its energies.Using massage, nutrition, and contact points, Kinesiology helps with: emotions and anxieties, specific personal dietary intake and supplements for nutritional deficiencies, structural imbalances and energy blocks.  Kinesiology balances the whole person, which enhances health and well-being.  Health wards off disease.  Kinesiology is truly preventive.

A fundamental premise of Kinesiology is that the body has innate healing energy and is at all times doing its best to care for itself, but that sometimes it needs to be helped into a better position to achieve this care.Kinesiology also recognises that there are flows of energy within the body that relate not only to the muscles but to every tissue and organ that go to make the body a living, feeling being.  
 
These energy flows can be evaluated by testing the function of the muscles, which in turn reflect the body's overall state of structural chemical, or emotional balance.
In this way, Kinesiology taps into energies that the more conventional modalities overlook. Kinesiology looks beyond the symptoms. Kinesiology does not treat named diseases. Nor does it diagnose them. Kinesiology is concerned with imbalances in the body's energy. In this respect, Kinesiology has close links with the acupuncture concept of energy flow.
 
Kinesiology is not limited to dealing with ailments. Energy balancing brings a person closer to achieving any goal of their choice ~ in sport, relationships, learning or coping with life in general.Kinesiology is a natural health care system which uses gentle muscle testing to evaluate many functions of the body in the structural, chemical, neurological, and biochemical realms.Kinesiological muscle testing does not assess strength, but tests the integrity of the many factors which determine its response when called upon to contract.

Kinesiology testing does not diagnose disease.  Muscle testing enables analysis which detects minor functional imbalances.  Minor imbalances when not corrected, accumulate and cause compensations.Compensations compound each other, lead to functional changes, and give rise to symptoms of discomfort, pain or maybe allergic reactions.  If these warnings are ignored, disease can follow.

Muscle testing used by Kinesiologists does not measure the pure physical strength that a muscle can produce, but rather how the nervous system controls its muscle functions.There are over two-hundred bones connected to hundreds of muscles in the body. These all need to be working properly together, to enable good nerve, lymph and blood supply throughout the body. Gentle corrections and alignment of these systems may be applied to balance the body’s physical structure.

Muscle monitoring is used to assess what is functioning abnormally. This can be eg. a problem with the nervous system, the lymphatic drainage, the vascular supply to a muscle or organ, a nutritional excess or deficiency, a problem with the cranial-sacral - TMJ mechanism, an imbalance in the meridian system or a host of other problems. Testing individual muscles in an accurate manner and determining what is affecting   physiological functioning of the body helps to more accurately find what is going on. Various treatment methods are then applied to the problems that have been found.

Kinesiology borrows from many different disciplines and through the use of accurate, scientific muscle testing, in addition to the knowledge of the practitioner, helps direct the care to exactly what the patient's needs are.