Meridian Stress Assessment

Aran D. Galway

This paper presents a review of the history and current use of Meridian Stress Assessment (MSA), MSA instruments, and bioenergetic medicine (BEM). The use of MSA devices, treatment selection using MSA, homeopathy, nutritional therapy, acupuncture, and other complimentary modalities has been a mainstay of diaglnosis and treatment for decades among health care providers throughout the world, and most recently, in the United States. More importantly, people are learning about alternatives. We are being inundated through the media with information about complimentary modalities and the possibilities that they offer. The consumer is beginning to demand more from their health care dollars. Entrenched medical and political paradigms are breaking down and the general public and scientific communities are beginning to recognize the benefits of the various complimentary modalities. The Journal of the American Medical Association (Eisenberg et aI., 1998) reveals that visits to complementary medical practitioners now exceed those to orthodox practitioners. Eisenberg et al. report that four out of ten Americans used "alternative" therapies in 1997. Total out-of-pocket expenditures for alternative therapies during this same period were estimated at $27-34 billion dollars. In addition, 50% of the visits were 35 to 49 year olds with annual incomes above $50,000. Visits to alternative or integrative medical practitioners has increased by nearly 50% from 1990 to 1997. This paper includes advantages and challenges of MSA, the importance in assessing the bioenergetic systems, and instrumentation. Meridian stress assessment and bioenergetic medicine can be valuable adjuncts to conventional diagnosis and treatment and potentially a new paradigm in medicine. The integration of MSA instrumentation into clinical settings significantly augments the ability to rapidly and accurately evaluate tissues. Meridian stress assessment offers the clinician a scientifically documented quantitative method useful as a diagnostic supplement to case histories, physical assessment, laboratory diagnostics, and radiographic imagining. Given reliable MSA instruments, early diagnosis of disease states via measurable changes in electrical conductance is possible, which could facilitate prevention or early and more effective treatments (Brewitt, 1996). Further study of bioenergetic function using meridian stress assessment and the tools used in the assessment seems clearly warranted.

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