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If we make our philosophy, our principles, our faith, beliefs and our standards of conduct a private matter as some have suggested, what will be the standard by which we measure the value of public discourse and its resultant activity? Everyone doing what is right in his own eyes? Except for the objective straights, that’s ... Read more

Once you give up your own volition and free will and subject yourself and your practice to the dictates of a management consultant, you have lost something in chiropractic. Students would complain that philosophy was rammed down their throats and that is why they now reject it. Yet they will allow a man, who is ... Read more

Do the veins taken from the legs acquire the characteristics of coronary arteries after a period of time? Why or Why not? They say that lawyers are not supposed to ask a witness a question unless they already know the answer. I hope that is not the case for blog posters!

Do the veins taken from the legs acquire the characteristics of coronary arteries after a period of time? Why or Why not? They say that lawyers are not supposed to ask a witness a question unless they already know the answer. I hope that is not the case for blog posters!

Some complain that the chiropractic philosophy is confining? A philosophy is made up of principles and laws which are not necessarily confining. Laws with penalties are designed to restrict the activity of people who do not have integrity. They are not intended for people with integrity. Those people will do what is right with or ... Read more

Preparing a practice member to receive a chiropractic adjustment is not part of the practice of straight chiropractic, eg. placing them or laying them down on the table. That is why a non-professional (secretary, receptionist, CA) can do it. Granted, it changes body physiology but that is not its intent. The problem arises when the ... Read more

As long as we maintain our objective (correcting vertebral subluxation to enable the innate intelligence of the body to be more fully expressed), nothing more and nothing less, we will never lose our philosophy. When we ignore or change our objective such as remove the “vertebral” from it, we drift in our philosophy. Does your ... Read more

Do your practice members, who refer people to you, usually send people with musculoskeletal problems? If so, why? I think that people tend to refer those with musculoskeletal problems to our office more than for any other type of problem. Excluding those referrals who are members of the immediate family of a new practice member, ... Read more

Meditation, I am told, is emptying your mind of conscious thought. Yet the educated brain (the location of the mind) is not designed to be empty. “Nature abhors a vacuum”. It is an organ of the body designed to function, to have cells filled with information, to think. True meditation seems to me to be ... Read more

Meditation, I am told, is emptying your mind of conscious thought. Yet the educated brain (the location of the mind) is not designed to be empty. “Nature abhors a vacuum”. It is an organ of the body designed to function, to have cells filled with information, to think. True meditation seems to me to be ... Read more