Kennedy, 39, who is "mooching off my mom right now" to make ends meet, insists she doesn't do what chiropractors do. "I'm not a chiropractor," she said Tuesday.

A Garfield County judge Monday granted a request by the Oklahoma State Board of Chiropractic Examiners for a temporary injunction against Kennedy's business, the Nerve Signal Interference Removal Technologies School of Alternative Healing. The board argued Kennedy was engaging in chiropractic without a license.

Kennedy won't be able to operate her business until a permanent decision is made, Associate District Judge Richard Perry ruled.

The state attorney general's office in November 2000 sent her a letter ordering her to cease practicing chiropractic without a license.

Kennedy said she has helped 250 people in 16 years. She said she has received fees up to $1,000, although "predominantly, I've been giving it away." For $150, she offers an introductory course in the method she said was originated by her grandfather, Earl Craton, who died in 2002.

"I haven't got any real takers yet," she said.

She said her grandfather split with mainstream chiropractors in 1996 after discovering a basic belief of the profession was flawed -- that the head rotates on two "facets." She said Craton found that the head actually sits on two pairs of facets.

"He developed this, he discovered this, and nobody's listening."

Ron Tripp Jr., president of the Board of Chiropractic Examiners, said facets are the hinge joints of the spine, but, he added, "I'm not sure what she's referring to" with regard to what Kennedy said was her grandfather's dispute with the chiropractic establishment.

Tripp said he is not aware of any publications Craton had written, "if he had written any, ever being adopted by any chiropractic college."

On her Web site, Kennedy lists her goal as: "To be the tool that will destroy the current system and thereby herald God's Kingdom."