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The chiropractic profession is at a precarious place relative to universal acceptance. If we abandon our vitalistic, above-down philosophy, we will likely achieve universal acceptance as a limited mechanistic model (musculoskeletal conditions). If we maintain our vitalistic objective (correcting vertebral subluxations to enable the innate intelligence of the body to be better expressed), we run ... Read more

The above seems to be a goal for the straight chiropractic profession.  It is undoubtedly a very noble goal, for we know that an individual without vertebral subluxations functions better on every level.  Further, there is nothing wrong with having lofty goals as long as they are reasonable.  I am not quite sure that a ... Read more

Recently one of the publications that extols the virtues of “subluxation-based chiropractic” began to promote the idea of subluxation-based chiropractors selling nutritional supplements to their practice members.  Besides the rather questionable practices of multi-level marketing programs, there is the issue of whether this is consistent with the philosophy of chiropractic.  Perhaps the problem relates to ... Read more

Our profession continues to vacillate between attacking the medical establishment and craving acceptance from it.  I think both extremes have caused many of our profession’s present problems.  D.D. wanted acceptance from the community and tried to get it by attacking medicine.  In this manner, chiropractic received a certain degree of acceptance but only as a ... Read more

  Last issue (April), we discussed the unfortunate situation of the chiropractor arrested for practicing medicine without a license in Spain. Recently in California, there was a case involving a chiropractor who was arrested on felony charges for using vitamins to treat a baby who had a digestive disorder. The California Chiropractic Association (CCA), of ... Read more

Has anyone besides me noticed that there are no longer arguments among the profession as to what chiropractic is?  I wish I could say it is because we are all in agreement.  Perhaps, to some degree, it is because we have matured as a profession.  Mostly, it is because the three major factions (represented by ... Read more

One major difficulty with chiropractic reaching its place in society is our desire to “fit in.”  Almost since our profession’s inception, we have been trying to gain acceptance.  The earliest pushes in licensing laws were an attempt to get the government to accept us.  We have been and are still looking for acceptance by the ... Read more

Chiropractic is faced with a serious dilemma.  Its present accepted model by society, the correction of misalignments for the purpose of achieving or maintaining a healthy back,  cannot support the quickly growing number of practitioners.  With most of the schools showing no signs of limiting enrollments, the profession will need to expand its population base.  ... Read more

         The greatest problem with the chiropractic profession as a whole is its lack of vision.  We started off 100 years ago with a man like D.D. who had the vision to see something that no one else in the world had ever seen, the vertebral subluxation as an interference to the expression of life.  ... Read more

Sadly, the least amount of vision within our profession is the place that it should be the greatest — our educational institutions.  Throughout history, in almost every walk of life, education has always been the place where visionaries came from.  Within the colleges should reside the thinkers, the visionaries who present the ideas to a ... Read more