There is an International College in Zurich, other colleges in Europe, a fully accredited degree course in Australia, schools and courses across the globe including Russia, South America, Africa and the Far East, including Japan. There are also many thousands of nurses in India using Touch For Health as their first line of health care. However, with this rapid growth and success has come much confusion and misunderstanding as to what is kinesiology. Part of this confusion is because of its great diversity of development and application but also because its main 'tool', the muscle test, can so easily be abused, particularly in the area of allergy testing. For at the base line a muscle test is just a muscle test and in itself denotes nothing more than that, i.e. that at one moment the muscle is appearing strong and the next it is weak.
Kinesiology is a science, an art, a skill.
To practise it requires the knowledge of how to utilise information gained from changes that occur to a muscle, or muscles, when tested under certain conditions and with the introduction of different stimuli when testing. In the hands of a skilled practitioner, and lay people with practice, the vehicle of muscle testing can be employed to achieve remarkable results in the cessation of symptoms of ill health and improvements in general health and wellbeing. The science of muscle testing can also be used by most other therapies and therapists to greatly enhance their work, including the Western medical profession. Another weakness arising from this rapid growth and constant new discoveries has been the piecemeal training over the years. This is in the process of being addressed, both here in the UK and internationally.