From 2011 through 2017, after 28 years of publishing The Pivot Review, Dr. Strauss instead began blogging thoughts and articles. We hope you are stimulated, challenged, and inspired by this collection of of over 1000 thoughts and articles.
Understanding What We Do
Patient Education, Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|If we try to explain to MDs or even the general public what we do in the framewok of the medical paradigm (egs. get some sick people well by adjustments, or treat certain musculoskeletal problems), some will accept us for that. But we still have not impacted their paradigm. We have just allowed them to ... Read more
Read More Naturalism
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 2 Comments
|A naturalistic world view promotes more than just Darwinism in the biological realm. It promotes an anti-authority viewpoint, no law but survival of the fittest. This allows science and the individual to enter into the foray of changing and “evolving” the species with just as much authority as anyone else. They can genetically engineer people ... Read more
Read More Maybe it's Just My Imagination…
Thinking Straight | 30 Comments
|…but it seems to me that more upper cervical chiropractors are into treating medical conditions or their cause than are into correcting vertebral subluxation to enable the ii of the body to be more fully expressed. The percentage is probably no different than other “straight” chiropractors but because they purport to practice the purest form ... Read more
Read More Q&A #15 Life and Death
Thinking Straight | 18 Comments
|Here’s a question that never seems to R.I.P: Does the innate intelligence of your body “decide” for you to die? Why or why not?
Read More Q&A #15 Life and Death
Thinking Straight | 18 Comments
|Here’s a question that never seems to R.I.P: Does the innate intelligence of your body “decide” for you to die? Why or why not?
Read More The Significance of Recent Political Events
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight
|The profession is quickly polarizing into two extreme groups and there does not seem to be any room for compromise as witnessed by the recent furor over the move to broaden the chiropractic law in some sates and the expansion of CCE requirements while at the same time, attempting to get rid of certain terms ... Read more
Read More Cellular Intelligence
Thinking Straight | 22 Comments
|This is a subject BJ never addressed if he felt it existed at all and a number of chiropractors have criticised my presentation of it and the ramifications on the mental impulse, safety pin cycle and normal complete cycle as well as a few other chiropractic philosophical issues like whether there is one or two ... Read more
Read More A thought for students(and the rest of us too!)
Thinking Straight, Thoughts
| The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. -C.S. Lewis
Read More Q&A #14 Calif. Bd. Reg.
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 10 Comments
|The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners has passed an informed consent regulation which, as I understand it, says that chiropractors must inform patients of the inherent risks of “serious bodily harm” in a chiropractic adjustment. Is there any inherent risk to an adjustment, understanding that an adjustment means to “make right?” Here’s the question: “When ... Read more
Read More Q&A #14 Calif. Bd. Reg.
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 10 Comments
|The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners has passed an informed consent regulation which, as I understand it, says that chiropractors must inform patients of the inherent risks of “serious bodily harm” in a chiropractic adjustment. Is there any inherent risk to an adjustment, understanding that an adjustment means to “make right?” Here’s the question: “When ... Read more
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