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.
Q&A #12-Goals
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|Is setting and visualizing goals (for the purpose of impressing upon your educated) consistent with chiropractic philosophy? It is educated, not innate hence it can be good educated or bad. Good if it is within your ability and bad if it is beyond your limitations (of ability/matter and time), causing physiological stress. It seems to ... Read more
Read More A New E-Book-Chiropractic Philosophical Constructs
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|The second of my e-books is now underway. I am always working on more than one book at a time but I have never had the luxury of publishing them both as I work on them. The internet and e-books have changed all that. Perhaps you have already received and begun reading Conflict of Philosophy. ... Read more
Read More Bacteria and Viruses
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 9 Comments
|How did we in chiropractic come to think of bacteria and viruses in our environment as a non-threatening, friendly, creature of earth? Must have been the 60’s peace generation. Perhaps it is because medical science has historically viewed them as adversaries that needed to be destroyed and in an anti-medical moment we took the opposite ... Read more
Read More Chiropractic Education for the Public
Patient Education, Thinking Straight | 8 Comments
|Many people will intentionally stop their thought processes rather than go on because going on necessitates shifting from empiricism to reason or even to faith and they are not comfortable with that. They have no desire to think outside their comfort zone. So they just never give a new concept or subject “further thought.” Our ... Read more
Read More The Importance of Correcting Vertebral Subluxations
Patient Education, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 10 Comments
|Even though the difference between the effects of being subluxated and being unsubluxated cannot be measured, there remains an important difference. We must ask ourselves if that difference is significant. Frankly, we do not know. But do you want people to ignore having their subluxations corrected with the possibility that it is, in fact, significant?
Read More Commentary on Commentary
Thinking Straight | 8 Comments
|I recently posted some thoughts on my blog in which I lamented the idea that starting a new profession or changing our name would not make a difference. I received some very good comments from a few of my faithful readers. They really did not say anything new, in fact what struck me about the ... Read more
Read More THOUGHT: A new name for the profession
Future of Chiropractic, Thoughts | 13 Comments
|If we cannot get our approach to chiropractic across to the public today with all the different types of media we have at our disposal, what makes us think we will do any better by giving the profession a new or different name?
Read More What Exactly Does ADIO Mean?
Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|Of course, we know it stands for Above-Down-Inside-Out. It was an acronym said to have been coined by B.J. Palmer who felt it encompassed the philosophy of chiropractic. It became the name of a short-lived chiropractic school in Pennsylvania. I’m sure if you asked a number of chiropractors its meaning, you would get various answers. ... Read more
Read More Q&A #11
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 22 Comments
|Does the concept of innate to innate communication violate Principle No. 24 (….innate intelligence is limited by limitations of matter.)?
Read More Q&A #11
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 22 Comments
|Does the concept of innate to innate communication violate Principle No. 24 (….innate intelligence is limited by limitations of matter.)?
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