Manipulation is acceptable, if it is for the purpose of relieving minor joint problems. However, this “adjustment” with the so-called innate philosophy behind it, that is not acceptable to them.
Using chiropractic for a back problem is like using a Stradivarius violin as a doorstop.
“30% of the American Public use chiropractic care. It’s wonderful isn’t it?” Fred Barge, D.C., PhC
Actually, I happen to think it is sad. When you realize that 25% of that 30% believe chiropractic is for bad backs, more than 4% believe it is a treatment for some other condition or a cure-all and less than 1% realize it’s purpose is to allow your innate intelligence to be expressed more fully, under all circumstances, we really should not get too excited about that statistic.
Innate intelligence may not be a scientific concept but it is surely an intellectual one.
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Innate intelligence is not a theological concept but it is an important concept to theology because it is the difference between biological life and human life, between a living organism and a living soul.
Chiropractic Claim
The only claim that chiropractic can accurately and truthfully make is that it corrects vertebral subluxations which are an interference to the transmission of messages from the innate intelligence of the body to the tissue of the body.
A great percentage of Americans have never been to a chiropractor.
That is sad!
An even greater percentage of Americans do not know what chiropractic is.
That is even sadder!
It seems that often researchers are a tight little fraternity with their own language, procedures, and secret handshakes, a group who considers anyone doing or thinking anything outside their approach to be at best inferior, at worst unethical.