It must be apparent that true wellness is not just lack of symptoms. Wellness has more to do with oxygenation, attitude, strength, flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning, balance and others. Many patients think that wellness is freedom from symptoms. This is an allopathic major misconception. With this in mind this wellness test was designed to measure our wellness and to give us a method of observing our limitations. We can then change and improve our wellness.

First we can measure the blood pressure. Blood pressure is not the same throughout the body. Several diseases or disorders can create imbalances in the flow or pressure of the flow. The computer is programmed to give us warnings on a report screen if there are such diseases. Simply use a large blood pressure cuff to measure both of the arms and legs. We then measure the standing pressure within 2 sec. of standing from a sitting position. We only need to input the systolic reading on standing.

Next we measure the strength of the patient. How many push-ups, chin-ups, leg-lifts, toe raises are measured in the time limits outlined by the computer. The standup while holding your breath is accomplished by first telling the patient to relax sitting in a chair.

They will then hold a normal (not forced) breath. While holding the breath the patient will stand up and sit down as many times as they can. When the brain can no longer deal with the aerobic loss the patient will quit. The counts of the times they can stand up tells us the anaerobic capacity of the brain. The computer will give us a ranking in the report.

The cardiovascular challenge is a variation of the Harvard Step test. Here we must get the base line heart rate and respirations per minute. Measure for 10 sec and multiply by 6. Then the patient undertakes a met of exercise (heavy exercise) for two minutes. Then we take the heart rate and respirations per min immediately. Then we wait one minute and remeasure to get a cool down measure. These calculations will give us an expert insight into the cardiovascular strength of our patient.

Next is the balance beam test. Here we use an eight foot two by four, where the patient first walks across the board. Then the patient walks backwards, next the patient tries the same two maneuvers with a blind fold. We record the best performance.

Next we measure the self rating of the patient. The patient rates themselves in several areas. Such as ability to be still, relax, stress, all around health. We use 10 being extreme and 0 being no ability and the patient rates themselves.

Next we measure the flexibility of the patient with measures of multiple areas of flexibility. The low back flex is measured by sitting on the floor extend legs. Reach as far as you can towards the heels with both hands. If you can place the two extended fingers at the heels then record zero. If you can go past the heels then record each inch past the heels. If you can not get to the heels then record the number of inches as negative numbers. The side to side measure is performed while on the knees you reach to the side if you can place the palm of the hand on the floor then score 100%.

If you can reach the first knuckle score 75%, second knuckle 50%, only the tip of the fingers 25%. The rotation score is 100% if you can twist to the side far enough to get your shoulders at 180 degrees to your hips. If the patient can not perform this difficult feat then rate the attempt in percent.

The neck flexibility is a rating of how far towards the shoulders you can extend your ears, if you can touch the ear to the shoulder rate 100%. if not rate the attempt.

Last we use anthropomorphic measures such as height, weight, waist diameter, thigh diameter. The fat thickness is a measure of the adipose tissue around the abdomen and the under the arm in the triceps. The waist to thigh ratio was found to be the most significant bit of data for estimating the risk of heart attack. This and other calculations are performed in the computer and generated into an easy report. Wellness is not just freedom from symptoms. It is much more. Just this philosophy can be healing. Good luck if you need more info get the wellness book.