Applied Kinesiology, Arlington Texas
Applied Kinesiology: Why This Examination Takes Longer
The short answer
Dr. India Monet is certified in applied kinesiology. It means her examination includes manual muscle testing, assessing how your body responds under load muscle by muscle and joint by joint, rather than working backwards from wherever it happens to hurt. It is a skill she trained for specifically, and very few clinics in Arlington offer it. If you have been examined in five minutes somewhere else, this will not feel like that.
What It Is
Testing How Your Body Holds Up Under Load
The place it hurts and the place that gave way are frequently not the same. Muscle testing is how you go looking for the second one.
Manual muscle testing means exactly what it sounds like. Dr. Monet positions a limb or a joint, applies load, and assesses how you hold against it. Done across a region rather than at a single spot, it builds a picture of how you are actually loading and moving, which is information you cannot get from asking where it hurts.
Most people who arrive at a clinic point at one place. The lower back, the outside of a knee, between the shoulder blades. That spot is where the complaint is. It is not automatically where the problem started. A knee that hurts on stairs is often a hip that stopped contributing. An aching mid back is often a shoulder blade that is not holding position. Testing the whole chain is how that shows up.
Her credential
Dr. India Monet, DC graduated from Parker University in 2024 and is certified in applied kinesiology. It is a specific post-graduate skill set, trained for deliberately, and it is uncommon in Arlington. It is worth asking any clinic what their examination actually involves before you book.
What To Expect
What The Appointment Actually Involves
You do most of the talking first
What happened, when, what makes it worse, what you do for work and for exercise. The history narrows things down before a hand is laid on you.
Movement, then testing
How you move, then how you hold. Muscle testing across the region rather than at the one sore spot, alongside strength and reflex testing.
It is not uncomfortable
You are asked to hold a position while gentle load is applied. Nothing is forced. If something hurts, you say so and she stops.
You get told what she found
In plain language, before anything is treated, including the parts she is unsure about and anything that needs a referral.
The practical difference is what happens next. When the examination has covered the whole chain, treatment can be aimed at what is not doing its job rather than only at what is complaining. That is the case for taking longer over it.
Who It Suits
Especially Worth It If You Have Been Round This Before
A thorough examination matters most when the obvious answer has already been tried.
- Pain that keeps coming back to the same place after it settles
- A problem that improved somewhere else and then returned
- Pain in one place that you suspect starts somewhere else
- A knee, hip or shoulder that only complains under load
- Returning to training or to work after an injury
- Several things aching at once and no clear story connecting them
Being Straight With You
What This Is And What It Is Not
It is part of an examination, not a substitute for one
Muscle testing sits alongside history, movement assessment, strength and reflex testing. It is not a replacement for imaging or for a medical opinion, and it is not used to diagnose disease. There is no imaging in this building, so when a finding calls for an X ray, an MRI or a physician, you get referred out rather than treated anyway.
If You Notice Any of These Warning Signs, Please Seek Emergency Room Care Right Away.
- Loss of bowel or bladder control, or numbness through the saddle area
- Weakness in both limbs, or weakness that is getting worse by the day
- Fever alongside spinal pain, or unexplained weight loss
- Significant trauma, or a suspected fracture
- New spinal pain with a history of cancer
Call 817-800-7136 and describe it, and you will be told plainly where to go.
Common Questions
Applied Kinesiology, Asked And Answered
What is applied kinesiology?
It is an approach that uses manual muscle testing as part of a physical examination, assessing how you hold against applied load across a region rather than only at the spot that hurts. Dr. Monet is certified in it and uses it alongside history, movement, strength and reflex testing.
Does it hurt?
No. You are asked to hold a position while gentle load is applied. Nothing is forced, and if something is painful you say so and she stops.
How is it different from a normal chiropractic examination?
It covers more ground. Rather than examining the painful area and treating it, the testing works across the region and the chain above and below it, because the place that hurts and the place that gave way are frequently not the same.
Is it used instead of imaging?
No. It is part of a physical examination. There is no imaging in this building, and when a finding calls for an X ray, an MRI or a medical opinion you get referred out rather than treated anyway.
Do many clinics near me offer this?
Very few. It is a specific post-graduate certification rather than something included in standard training, which is why it is worth asking any clinic what their examination actually involves.
Do you take walk-ins?
No. Every visit is booked, which is part of how there is time to examine properly. Call 817-800-7136.
Book A Proper Examination
Call and describe what is going on, or book online and pick a time.
3825 W Green Oaks Blvd, Suite 710, Arlington, TX 76016. Appointments only.