First, there are no presumptions in ABC™.

It is all hard factual data that anyone, professional or not, can verify themselves.

Further, those pictures are real and the changes are consistent and predictable. Why bother with NIH when anyone can duplicate the results in minutes on as many people as they want?

Would you rather have personal physical experience with no exceptions or the say-so of someone who publishes a study with many of the exceptions, assumptions and conditions that accompany those studies.

What presumptions do you think are there?

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Difficult as it is to believe the sorenesses in the muscles disappear immediately when the muscle is relieved. This is why getting in water, which supports bodies and takes stress and strain off muscles, often results in reduced or relief of soreness.

Not just with ABC™ but many examples of manipulation resulting in relief of soreness of muscles are available -- even a few in the literature.

As for the "I know. Live a day in my body." Sorry cannot do. But a PT I dated and lived with for a while discovered on her own body and others' bodies that the things I say and teach actually do what I say they do when others apply the method as taught too. If that was not true she would have dumped me on that fourth date when after a hard workout she wanted to cancel because she was so sore and I said she would not be sore after I treated her so she would be okay to go. I did as promised and we did.

Anyone can learn it, we have quite a few who learn it with a friend and apply it to themselves.

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It is probably less expensive to try a visit to an ABC™ practitioner so you can physically experience whether I am full of baloney or not than most of the other things you have tried.

I personally get nothing from it unless you come to me for treatment and I do not see that any of you are close so this is just data to answer the original question posed and a chance for you to discover for yourself what is or is not.

I have no personal stake in this at all unless you try it with someone and later decide it works and want to learn it yourself, so try it or not as you please.