Contact Reflex Analysis™ / What is CRA?

Contact Reflex Analysis™ (hereafter referred to as CRA™) is very precise and scientific. However if I were to analyze you using CRA™ before it was explained to you, you might find it strange, or simply not believable - only because it is probably very different from anything you may have experienced before.

I can completely understand that because when I first saw CRA™ being done, my first reaction was "I wonder if this really works!" Ever since I started in Chiropractic practice 19 years ago, I was looking for a complete system to evaluate each of my patient's health. When I moved to Florida I worked for several chiropractors as I was establishing my practice. In one office I heard of the results of this doctor. Patients were getting help with high blood pressure, diabetes and other "incurable" conditions. As a result, I studied CRA™ videos and attended numerous seminars. And I am sure happy I did because without CRA™, I don't think I would still be a chiropractor. CRA took me took 19 years to find, but the purpose for what I was doing had been rekindled. I  was again excited to be a chiropractor! And because of CRA™, we are here and able to help you improve your health.

Quite frankly, if you are to get healthy and stay healthy it is very important that you understand what CRA™ is and what your recommendations are based on.

Otherwise you are less likely to follow through and actually do what you need to do to get well. To put it simply, if you don’t follow through, you wont get well. And if you are not going to get well, why do it in the first place?

The results I have using CRA™ are in the 90% and better range. The reason I practice as a CRA practitioner is to help you get well. That is why I want to make sure you get the correct understanding of what CRA™ right from the start.

In medical practice there are two key parts: the diagnosis (identifying and/or naming the disease or syndrome) and the treatment (operation, drug, etc.). In CRA we do not diagnose or treat disease, but we also have two parts: the analysis and the personalized health improvement program (using designed clinical nutrition). Simply put, first we do an analysis and then we design a natural health improvement program to help you handle what we find in our analysis of your body and condition.

The analysis is done through testing the body’s own reflex points. These are derived from the ancient Chinese system of acupuncture. Also recognized is the fact that the body has as a component and electrical field. This field has been studied via Kirlian Photography. The acupuncture system is thousands of years old. It is a study of how the different points on the surface of the body relate to the state of health and the flow of energy in each and every function and part of the body.  With CRA, I want you to know that needles are NOT used. Interestingly, not one acupuncture point has ever been changed over hundreds or thousands of years - not because the doctors were lazy or stupid - but because they are that accurate!

The second part of CRA™  is the Personalized Health Improvement Program. Lets say the liver point or the *kidney" point is active. Then what?

Each point has a meaning. We use designed clinical nutrition for each point that shows up in order to correct the imbalance or deficiency that caused the point or reflex to become active in the first place. Its that simple!

In medicine the medical doctor makes a diagnosis and then uses drugs or surgery to attack, suppress the symptom or remove the offending organ or part.

In Contact Reflex Analysis we use Designed Clinical Nutrition to correct the cause of the problem so the body can have the ability to correct itself.

First of all, it is not vitamins, as in vitamins that are sold over-the-counter. Those are frequently coal-tar (coming from an oil-based substance) reproductions of isolated chemical formulas of vitamin structures reproduced in a laboratory. They are not only frequently made from coal-tars, but also lack the synergistic elements normally present in WHOLE foods.

An example of a whole food could be carrots. Carrots are high in Vitamin A COMPLEX. A complex is something with many many different parts that work together. Synthetic vitamin A does not contain the whole Vitamin A Complex found in nature. So, if we were looking for a food high in Vitamin A, carrots might be one of our choices.

Vitamins that are being used all over today generally only have a small percentage of their actual content from natural sources to be labeled natural. In any case, because they are not derived from whole foods, they often make you more deficient and nutritionally out-of-balance and can create other problems because they do not contain all of the cofactors found in nature which make the vitamins work.

Designed Clinical Nutrition is exactly that:

It is whole food in a tablet, designed to match the needs of the specific acupuncture or reflex points found on your individual CRA™  analysis. These are nutrients you are simply not getting or assimilating in your current diet. This may be due to your personal eating habits and routines, but it is for sure due, in some large extent, to the lack of quality in the foods commercially available in grocery stores or restaurants.