INTRODUCTION TO PAIN TEST POINTS

FOR DETECTING PHYSICAL IMBALANCES

DEMONSTRATION:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYHzWSMV-hI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hi_WTv9I-M

In these systems, test points are specific areas on the body — often acupuncture points, reflex points, or anatomical landmarks — that practitioners press or touch while assessing muscle strength. The idea is that touching certain points can reveal underlying dysfunctions when correlated with muscle testing responses. Please view the above videos to understand the concept. The chart will help to know what pain in a certain area, or a dropping arm can indicate.  Please understand this is just an introduction. Chiropractors study for years to learn their practice. However, if you have the skill of muscle testing, it is just another fascinating application to use.

Step-by-Step: How Test Point Testing Is Often Done

1. Establish a Baseline Muscle Test
   A strong muscle (commonly deltoid, psoas, or quadriceps) is tested for normal resistance. The tradition method is to ask the patient to hold their arm out stiff and while pressing the points the arm is pressed with about 2 lb pressure. If the arm moves or is straight indicates the strength of that point.
2. Contact the Test Point
   The practitioner gently touches or presses a specific point on the patient’s body. This point might relate to an organ reflex, acupuncture meridian, or other clinically significant site.
3. Re-Test the Same Muscle
   While maintaining contact with the test point, the practitioner repeats the muscle test.
4. Interpret the Result
• Weakening Response: Indicates potential dysfunction or stress related to the organ/system associated with that point.
• No Change: Suggests no immediate issue with the point being tested.
• Strengthening Response (in some systems): May indicate compatibility or resonance with a corrective factor, such as a nutrient.

Purpose

• Identify areas of physiological stress.
• Prioritize treatment areas (spinal segments, organs, nutritional support).
• Correlate findings with other diagnostic techniques.

🧭 How to Perform Test‑Point (Therapy‑Localization) Testing

1. Choose a Test Muscle & Find Baseline Strength
• Often the deltoid or psoas is tested.
• The patient resists gently against practitioner-applied pressure.
• A “strong” response: muscle holds.
• A “weak” response: the test muscle yields.

1. Locate the Test Point

• These are often acupuncture, organ-reflex, or spinal areas considered energetically linked to the muscle.
• For example: a specific vertebral area or reflex point on the torso.

1. Apply Pressure on the Test Point

• The practitioner gently presses the chosen point while maintaining proper contact.

1. Re-Test the Muscle

• The patient again resists practitioner pressure on the muscle.

1. Interpret the Change

• If weakens, the test point is considered “positive” – suggesting stress/dysfunction in the correlated area.
• If no change, usually indicates no significant issue.

1. Repeat for Other Points

• Clinicians may test multiple points to map areas of tension or dysfunction, guiding treatment prioritization.

This method assumes a viscero‑skeletal‑energetic connection—muscle weakness suggests a problem “downstream” from the test point.