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.
The "Problem" With OSC.
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|The problem with our approach to the practice of chiropractic compared to other approaches is that we have desired to place our approach into the arena of ideas (admittedly, we have not done it very well, by virtue of the fact that most people have not fully understood it). The other side(s) has used and ... Read more
Read More Empiricism
Thinking Straight | 21 Comments
|Correctly or incorrectly,sometimes perception is people’s reality.
Read More Practice Members and Vaccination
Thinking Straight
|A Practice Member’s desire to vaccinate or utilize any other drug is not a matter of whether we have convinced them not to but whether they have objectively understood the ADIO philosophy so as to make a correct/personal decision on their own. It is not our place to judge that decision.
Read More The Chiropractic Big Lie-Part 2
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|When I first posted the above, a chiropractor wrote asking if I would relate the rest of the article which he apparently could not see/read. That was because there was no more than that one statement. I failed to respond to his comment/question,explaining no more was written. I recently came across his comment and an ... Read more
Read More Traditional (Straight) Chiropractic
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|TSCors justify the action of diagnosis because they believe the purpose of chiropractic is to get sick people well.
Read More "Head v. Heart" Knowledge.
Thinking Straight | 1 Comment
|Understanding chiropractic philosophy is not learning it so that you remember it on an examination or when you are temporarily reminded of it by some outstanding speaker but learning it so that you never forget it, so that it is uppermost in your mind every day of practice.
Read More BJ and Licensure Q&A # 77
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|Why were many chiropractors, B.J. included initially against the idea of licensure for chiropractors and why did they change their minds?
Read More Mimicry
Thinking Straight
|Why does the chiropractic profession insist on mimicking a system that has, for over 2,000 years, failed miserably to restore the expression of intelligence through matter.
Read More "Maintenance Philosophy"
Thinking Straight
|Maintaining our philosophy keeps us using our integrity. We tell our Practice Members to continue having their spines checked regularly but we often do not tell them, in detail, why. Further, we don’t maintain our own philosophy unless we are continually studying and teaching it to them.
Read More The Power of Public Opinion
Thinking Straight
|Public opinion is only valuable when it expresses truth. That has been demonstrated in the recent election. The silent majority came to realize (enough of them anyway) thanks to the Constitution and the Electoral College created by it, that the “fundamental change” of the last 8 years was not the truth that this country was ... Read more
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