Mum says her baby joy is due to kinesiology , Teesdale Mercury

A TEESDALE woman who could not conceive for seven years says the  birth of her eight-week-old baby  William was down to alternative therapy. 

Rachel Hegarty, from Dalton, had tried hormone therapy and acupuncture in a bid to get pregnant, but the treatments failed.

“The more the doctors did the less we were gaining – nothing was getting us anywhere,” she said.

But after hearing about kinesiology, Rachel contacted Winston-based practitioner Nicola Jones to see if she could help. 

Rachel said: “A friend told me about another kinesiologist who passed on Nicola’s details. I was fairly open-minded about coming – I think I would have tried anything.”

Nicola runs Pure Health Kinesiology, a practice that combines traditional Chinese medicine with modern muscle testing.

The technique used by Nicola involves applying light pressure to a muscle and monitoring how it responds to stimuli and stressors to establish the cause of symptoms. 

Rachel, who is a farmer and lives with her husband Nick, said: “I 

didn’t have a lot of hope before I first went, but when I started I tried to be completely positive because you have to be. 

“If you’re not open minded when you start then what’s the point?”

Within three weeks of attending the sessions, Rachel responded to hormone balancing treatment – something she didn’t do under the care of a medical consultant. 

As well as responding well to the treatment for hormonal irregularities, Rachel also benefitted from the nutritional advice given during health kinesiology. 

At first she was prescribed supplements and homeopathic remedies. 

And, as the sessions went on, Nicola discovered her client needed more specific treatment.

She said: “We continue doing muscle tests throughout the sessions to see what the body needs – it’s always completely different. What you might need when you start out, you won’t necessarily need the week after. 

“But one of the main parts of it for me is having positive thought – which can be very difficult when you’re in a stressful situation like Rachel was. I’m certainly not saying it’s easy but we have to try to change people’s mindset – we just don’t do negative.”

As well as establishing what Rachel needed in terms of supplements, there was also ‘talk therapy’, in which she discussed possible reasons behind her medical problems. 

Rachel said: “Some of the stuff that Nicola was saying about things I felt was amazing. She just started pulling stuff out – things that I’d never told anyone – it was spooky.”

To help get her on the right track, Rachel was also given homework, which included repeating positive thought, and dietary changes which included coming off meat for two days – a feat for any farmer. 

Nicola admitted that tackling Rachel’s problem was a daunting prospect at the outset. 

She said:   “Well with things like this, it’s either a pass or a fail. But after the first week I had a really good feeling about this and Rachel seemed so much happier.”

Nicola explained that heath kinesiology gives the body tools to heal itself. She said:   “Your body is asking for so many different things from different areas. 

“It makes sense that if your body is out of balance you need to put it back into balance. 

“Everything we use is non-toxic and natural. People are often apprehensive but by the end of session people are hooked.”

Within a year of her treatment Rachel fell pregnant with William – though her practitioner may have noticed something before her patient.  Nicola said:   “I tested Rachel and I said I think you might be pregnant and ten weeks after she found out she definitely was.”

Rachel, who agreed to tell her story to help other women trying to conceive, said:   “It was fantastic – a bit too good to be true at first. But now I have William – something I’d started to think I could never have.

For more information about Pure Health Kinesiology visit www.purehk.co.uk or call Nicola on 01325 732177.