A professional, preferably MD, with all the other qualifications, who is well trained in ART is my preference all the way around - especially with Lyme Disease.
I have posted about ART here for years. It is one of the major reasons, the major reason, both my husband and I are living a lyme-less normal life again. I avoid seeing any doctor or dentist that does not practice ART. Many pitfalls are avoided.
Take care.
P.S. ART testing, however, is not something you "have done" once. It accompanies you through your whole treatment processes until you get back to health. Just doing it once is not beneficial, because ART addresses all layers of the body and as one heals, others surface that need attention. Whenever your condition needs a different medication or remedy, ART always is part of the decisionmaking process what is safest and most beneficial to the patient.
I've been seeing someone since Sept 04. We've been peeling away at this illness one layer at a time.
In fact my body flat out refused that I had or ever have had lyme for 6 months. Well, after peeling away some very thick layers of crap, there it was. Lyme disease.
I had thought lyme started in July 99. That's when I came down with the flu-like illness that never went away and was slammed with one symptom after another.
Through ART testing I found that actually lyme started in 98. My immune system kept it in check except for it attacking my knees. That explained why in 98 my knees felt like they were 90yrs old.
In June 99 I was attacked by a dozen bug bites that I thought were chiggers. That was the straw that broke the camels back. My immune system could no longer handle the toxins from those bites.
When I starting seeing this muscle tester, I was on about 20 different meds, supplements and hormones. I'm now on 5, soon to eliminate two more of them. The majority of those items were harmful or neutral (of little or no help). Lots of money wasted, plus some were doing more damage to me.
Rene, you won't be sorry when you find someone who can truly help you on the road to wellness. Don't expect the body to fix this mess overnight. It took years for your body to get this toxic.
But it won't take years more to fix it. Just one layer at a time.
Take care,
Pam
So what is ART testing? I do not know what ART stands for so I cannot look it up.
It was developed over a period of many years by our doctor, Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD, and he teaches it worldwide. This method of diagnosis is what got both my husband and myself well. It is his opinion that only the multi approach works when it comes to Lyme. I totally agree with him. We had to treat many different infections before Lyme was conquered.
He has over 6000 practitioners that are using it. My husband and I have learned the very, very basics of it and we can test each other, which comes in real handy when no doctor is around and we wonder which channel to use on KMT's or whether a supplement is still worthwhile taking.
Testing for the hundreds of diseases, for dental infections, for heavy metals, where the metals are hanging out causing problems, etc. is a little more involved and takes a few months to practice in order to do it right.
"Autonomic Response Testing
What is A.R.T. Location Patient Explanation
Jonathan Frewing.
ART Practitioner.
Monthly Refresher
Course Instructor
in Sussex England.
An Introduction to ART:
Autonomic Response Testing (ART) is an unique and comprehensive alternative medical model. It has been developed and synthesized over the past 20 years by the neurologist Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt M.D., Ph.D. This form of testing enables practitioners to reliably evaluate a patient's health, on four interconnected levels. These are the Physical, Electromagnetic (or energetic), Mental and Intuitive bodies.
During his 12 years running one of the most acclaimed specialist pain clinics in America, Dr. Klinghardt attributes his success to a clear understanding that while a patient may present with a physical symptom, its source may frequently be found on one of the 'higher' levels. This fact is no less true where chronic conditions are concerned.
The Five Levels Of Healing:
Interaction of the First and Second Levels of Healing: (Physical and Energetic)
As a neurologist, Klinghardt could clearly see, how an electrical disturbance in the (autonomic) nervous system, could cause physical symptoms in an apparently unrelated area of the body. No amount of attention to a shoulder injury, for example, would relieve the pain if its cause were at a 'higher' level.
One level above the physical, is the electromagnetic (or energetic) body. The Autonomic Nervous System, responds to and channels energy throughout the physical body. Here, one might find a surgical scar or damaged tooth compromising the performance of the intricate network of the nervous system. This in turn could cause the shoulder pain.
Discovery of such an energetic disruption, and its subsequent treatment, would lead to an instant rebalancing of the energetics and immediate cessation of the shoulder pain.
The Third Level of Healing: (Mental)
One level higher, is the 'Mental' body, and here again, the ART practitioner may assess for disturbance. Unresolved Thought processes may also hinder the proper performance of the body's Energetics, which in turn may result in a Physical condition or symptom (in this case the shoulder injury).
Dr. Klinghardt has developed Mental Field Therapy from the initial discoveries by Roger Callaghan Ph.D., as the most potent means of addressing this level of healing. It combines the reintegration of the mental body with the level below, which is the energetic body of the nervous system and meridians.
The Fourth Level of Healing: (Intuitive)
Assessing and working with the intuitive body, may be achieved with colour and the use of PK (Psycho Kinesiology) or APN (Applied Psycho-Neurobiology). This technique has its roots in the discoveries made by Dr Hamer, who observed that emotions affect and are caught up in specific organs. Fear for example overstimulates the kidneys, and an over-stimulation of the kidneys in turn causes fear. If a person doesn't overcome their fear in a given situation, their kidneys may be overstressed from that day on.
Through Autonomic Response Testing, the practitioner may again uncover these unresolved psycho-emotional conflicts, which have ramifications on the mental thought patterns, thereby upsetting the energetic body and resulting in a physical symptom.
Seen from this perspective, it is no surprise that a persistent back problem (for example) with stressing kidneys will not heal with purely physical interventions. The A.R.T. practitioner has the protocols to establish what level the problem started on, and work on that level to 'uncouple' and relieve the underlying cause. The same would be true of the shoulder injury discussed earlier.
The Fifth Level:
This is the level of spiritual belief, and is not trespassed on by ART.
How Does the Practitioner Find these Issues?
Autonomic Response Testing has evolved from Kinesiology. As the name suggests, it is a process of assessing the response of that part of the nervous system over which we have no conscious control (the ANS). The Autonomic Nervous System is a hugely dense network of nerve fibres running throughout the physical body. 80% by weight is in the skin, and it is so fine, that if all the other structures of the body were stripped away, each individual would still be thoroughly recognisable.
Dr. Klinghardt's intricate understanding of the nervous system sets his assessment of the phenomenon of 'muscle testing' apart from all other schools of thought.
To him, it is evident that such a fine and intricate unconscious control system so close to the surface of the body, must be continuously on the look out for minute changes in a person's environment.
Just as a shark with its poor eyesight in murky waters, knows the shape and size of its prey through electromagnetic conductivity of the skin, so we scan our surroundings, but on an autonomic (unwitting) level.
This superfine network is not only scanning the surroundings, but is also connected to the organs and structures of the body. Light pressure on an area of skin, whose nervous network connects to a healthy organ, should not evoke any (autonomic) response. The same pressure over a compromised organ however, will instantly cause an involuntary reaction. It is this subtle, unwitting nerve response that gives rise to the phenomenon of changing muscle strength used in both kinesiology and Autonomic Response Testing.
As demonstrated with lie detection, physical contact is not necessary for involuntary reactions to occur. With polygraphs, respiratory rate, heart rate, blood pressure and electro-dermal activity are measured simply in response to verbal questions. It is the same Autonomic Nervous System controlling these factors as controls the tension and resistance transferred to the muscle spindles, which practitioners pick up in muscle testing. And these muscle spindles also react to auditory input.
What is more remarkable, is that the human body responds to substances it recognises even before it comes into contact with them.
The body's 'radar' will pick up and respond to the signature of all substances in its enormous library of experience, causing good and bad weakness and good and bad strengths. The ART practitioner assesses these strengths and weaknesses against another set of rules elucidated by the internationally acclaimed physicist Dr. Fritz Albert Popp.
Photon Emission:
As popularised by Lynn McTaggart in her book 'The Field' Dr. Popp was the first scientist in the West to demonstrate that one of the major languages of communication between living cells is the language of light. He not only demonstrated that photon emission is a key to synchronized biochemical change, but also that light emission and its level of organisation and coherence could be assessed.
Dr Klingardt, in developing ART, has introduced a means of using this information to assess how a person's photon emission and therefore physical health is pushed out of balance in order to accommodate a toxin, pathogen or stress.
The Seven Factors:
Much is made of the 'Stress' of modern life. The truth is however, that the humans in the West have finally eliminated the major stresses of basic survival. We are the only animals without predators, and can be sure of our daily food. So where does the stress come from?
Again with a profound knowledge of neurology, Dr. Klinghardt has isolated seven major obstacles to our health. Any of these factors, and more frequently a combination of several, may keep our nervous system in a permanently alert or stressed state. It is this relentless hyper-alertness, which is so destructive to health. These seven factors which must be addressed are:
Food Allergies
Heavy Metal Toxicity
Solvent Toxicity
Interference Fields (such as scars or teeth causing nervous disruption)
Jaw Misalignment
Mental/Psycho-emotional Conflicts
Geopathic and Geophysical Stress (EMF from power or earth)
In ART it is essential to assess which of the above is a contributory factor in a patient's disease condition and relieve them of that stress as a first step towards regaining health.
It is only after identifying these factors that we then move on to assess for 'Direct Resonance' with particular pathogens, or search out the remedies which the body responds to with the greatest state of relief.
In Conclusion:
Autonomic Response Testing is the most complete bio-feedback mechanism with which to assess a person's health, and determine at which level it has been compromised. It is only with this information that the appropriate interventions may be provided at the correct levels, thereby truly relieving the system of the underlying causes of distress and disease.
Maybe if you call some of them, they will point you to an ART practitioner who is near you.
Usually, people have to travel, because there are just not that many. It's worth every effort though. I would go halfway around the world to get treated by a good one.
Take care.