Dr. Ventura makes a very serious error in his review—that he knows the mechanism and, therefore, the body must be fixed in a certain manner. It's called Mechanism or Rationalism and is oppositional to the philosophical approach to chiropractic's Empiricism/Vitalism. Dr. Ventura writes, "Any program that hopes to correct the Hump Pattern, MUST include specific stretches to lengthen short muscles and strengthen stretched muscles." In reply I must state that KST does fix Hump Patterns without working on muscles; humps disappear and even begin to dissolve after one visit, in spite of what Dr. Ventura believes. I don't think we should tell the body what it must and must not be able to do. We learn from the body—the body tells us what it can and cannot do. KST does not involve mechanistic approaches of how the body should or should not work. It merely uses what works. I thank Dr. Ventura for his offer to work with us using his posture tools to see how KST works pie and post. I would appreciate his feedback. I must add that I am not implying that Dr. Ventura is incorrect in his statement re: muscle activity. Specific stretches and strengthening of various muscles and muscle groups may very well take place in hump pattern correction—my twist (pardon the word) on his way of looking at things is that the body may be (and apparently is) quite capable of doing those stretches and strengthenings on its own—once subluxations are corrected. At our last seminar a doctor recommended our using Posture Pro to document the great results doctors using K.ST have been getting. I'm going to put these remarks on our web site in the Forum at www.teddkorenseminars.com and request doctors send pre and post photos/images for analysis. Thanks again for the offer. Tedd Koren, D.C.
