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The race was on Sunday, the opening day of the 1984 Olympic Games. The Friday treatment was extensive, involving many AK procedures for structural, biochemical, and emotional factors. He exhibited a unique adrenal pattern, which Blaich was able to resolve with a suggestion from Dr. Goodheart.
When Blaich rechecked Alexi on Saturday, he tested much improved and only required some minor treatment. He was taking the supplements exactly as recommended and was in great condition for the following day’s race.
Sunday’s Olympic Road Race was about 120 miles, 10 laps of a 12-mile course that had numerous hills and steep climbs, with the temperature in the 90’s. As the race progressed, Alexi positioned himself well and was consistently able to stay in the lead group of riders. While other riders were consuming traditional candy bars and soft drinks for fuel during the race, Alexi consumed rice cakes and diluted apple juice. Several hours into the race that lasted almost 5 hours, many of the top contenders were dropping out of the race from overheating. Dr. Blaich had done Dr. Richard Shroeder’s technique to prevent overheating and Alexi was enduring the heat fairly well.
The final lap of the race was a duel between Alexi and a Canadian rider, Steve Bauer, who was in the lead. In the final 100 meters, Alexi was able to outsprint Steve to the finish line and win the Gold Medal for the United States. This was the first medal of any kind for the US in men’s cycling since 1912, and very special that it was Gold.
Alexi’s asthma did not interfere with his brilliant performance and his Gold Medal Victory. Immediately after the medal ceremony, Alexi gave Dr. Blaich a huge hug and said, “Thanks, I needed your help.”
When Blaich visited Alexi the following day, Blaich was hoping to get a picture of the two of them with the gold Medal. Before he even got to ask, Alexi put the Gold Medal around my neck and said, “Let’s take some pictures!”
Blaich said, “If we look happy here, it’s because we felt like we conquered the world….and we did.”
Alexi was very grateful to Dr. Blaich and gave credit to Applied Kinesiology for his spectacular performance. For Blaich, Alexi’s victory was especially sweet. It was a day when AK, proper use of legal supplements, and healthy eating all came from being considered “fringe” to the mainstream.
Blaich continued on the medical staff of the Coors Classic from 1985 through 1988, the final year of the event. Through Blaich’s efforts in 1985, the medical staff got restructured and renamed. It became the “Health Services Team” with 3 branches, the Doping, Medical, and Chiropractic divisions.
In 1987, Blaich was invited by the coach of the US Cycling team to the training camp to give a presentation on AK and to treat many of the younger, up-and-coming Olympians.
In 1989, Blaich was invited to become a team doctor for the Coors Lite Team. This was especially exciting because the team consisted of Alexi, several of the other top cyclists in the world, and Greg LeMond, the first American to win the Tour de France. Greg won the Tour in 1986 and was unfortunately shot in a hunting accident in the spring of 1987. He recovered from this near-fatal accident and tried to make a come-back in 1988 but was plagued with inflammatory problems.
In May of 1989, Blaich treated Greg several times, using AK to do major re-sets on his nervous system. He also put him on a regimen of 5 supplements, which he continued to take for the next several months.
At the Tour de France in July of 1989, Greg truly made the come-back of the century when he went into the final day of the race 30 seconds behind and made up enough time to win the 22-day race of over 2,000 miles by a margin of 8 seconds.
Applied Kinesiology in Dentistry
Applied kinesiology offers dentistry substantial reasons for incorporation of this practice into dental practice because it is able to show substantial effects on the total health and function of the individual owing to minute changes within the oral cavity.
Applied Kinesiology and Dentistry in Europe (by Dr. Rudolf Meierhöfer)
In the early 1990s, ICAK Diplomates Dr. Wolfgang Gerz, from Munich and Dr. Hans Garten founded the ICAK–D (Germany).
Dr. Gerz included dental applications like material testing and structural analysis in cranio-mandibular dysfunction in his teaching program.
Shortly thereafter, an engaged group, coming from different sections of dental medicine (oral-surgeons and TMJ specialists), orthodontists and general dentists discovered the new AK possibilities. These dental physicians were inspired not only by the ideas of AK but also by the positive results of this new method. Over the next few years these new methods of examination were discussed in professional meetings and were researched in ever larger numbers of clinical seminars.
This movement in European medicine was confirmed in 1993 with the founding of the International Medical Society of Applied Kinesiology (IMAK), and created an important push for Applied Kinesiology’s integration into medicine and dental medicine.
Their task was now to manage the recognition of an official additional training in AK by the Austrian Medical and Dental Council.
In 1997 Dr. Rudolf Meierhöfer (a charter AK Dental Diplomate in Germany) passed the Clinical Competence Test as first dentist, taught, trained and examined by the Diplomates Wolfgang Gerz, Jeff Farkas, and Hans Garten.
Continuously encouraged by Dr. Wolfgang Gerz, AK dental research went forward, e.g. oral testing of dental material, developing different methods of examination for dental foci and their consequences on the whole body function, and above all the structural consequences of craniomandibular dysfunctions. Physiotherapists, medical doctors, and dentists formed these working teams.
The developing clinical techniques from Drs. Goodheart, Walther, and Meersseman regarding AK dental diagnostics were checked by these European clinical-scientists. If possible to reproduce, it was integrated into the diagnostic and therapeutic spectrum of AK and also further developed.
Dr Meierhöfer experimented with therapy localization to inflamed gum pockets and carried out laboratory studies that reproducibly confirmed the possibility of several AK testing methodologies. With this method he could treat periodontal sickness better with oral tested orthomolecular medicine, which is today standard in many dental practices and also in the dental AK teaching material.
A decade after AK was introduced to this group of engaged dentists in Europe, many new ideas, clinical finesse and practical knowledge arose.
The questions came up:
- How to teach all the future applicants on the base of the same source?
- How to examine all the new dentists and “create” new diplomats since the knowledge did not yet exist in tested examination questions?
The first AK textbook in German, Lehrbuch der Applied- Kinesiology written by W. Gerz, summarized all the knowledge of that time and was a good solution to the problems seen above.
The popularity of the AK in dentistry was noticed internationally, and so Dr. Rudolf Meierhöfer received the title “Charter Dental Diplomate” in Melbourne 2002.
Dr. Meierhöfer was the one who worked on 100 new AK Dental examination questions and revised them with AK experts and so created a new basis for dental AK examination. Dr. Meierhofer was helped in this project by intensive mail exchange and the commitment of Dr. Cecilia Duffy, the former secretary of ICAK International Board of Examiners. The basis for exams of Dental Diplomates was created.
