Blog

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.

Research

There’s a big difference between accurately quoting the statement of someone and giving credibility to that statement as true. Do research references try to  give credibility to each other?
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Traditional Straight Chiropractic (TSC)

The cause of chiropractic’s fall was the arrogance of Traditional Straight Chiropractic, thinking that we chiropractors get sick people well, rather than focusing on our simple objective, a humble one, Locating,analyzing and Aiding in the Correction of  Vertebral Subluxation so that the innate intelligence of the body could be more fully expressed.
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Independence Day

Independence Day Weekend is a good time to remind ourselves that we are all created with an innate intelligence that is 100%, making us all equal with regard to biological life (the expression of innate intelligence through matter). We (as American human beings) all have the liberty (freedom) to choose how we express that biological ... Read more
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A Reader's Question

Hi Joe- Just reading your text, Green Book Commentaries vol. XIV Chiropractic Text Book RW Stephenson. Page 54 states “All Dis-Ease is thus traceable to impingements of nerve tissue in the spinal column.” If a person ingests poison, does this not create dis-ease as well? This person could have a finely tuned, chiropractically sound nervous ... Read more
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Mixing

Therapeutics-The only thing that has not been tried in order to destroy chiropractic is concealment, hiding it within/as the practice of medicine.
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Chiropractic and Health

Why chiropractic is not a health profession:  You can have health and disease at the same time. Examples : vomiting poison, a fever fighting off a virus,
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TC v. ThC

The only difference between the Therapeutic Chiropractor (ThC) and the Traditional Chiropractor (TC) is the means and the tools by which each desires to accomplish their identical objective-“getting sick people well”. They may have a slightly different idea of what “getting well” means and while the ThC may want to use any and every tool ... Read more
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Principle #24

There is a difference between understanding the concept of Limitations of Matter (P.24) and thinking you know what, where, and when those limitations exist. That’s the difference between chiropractic and the practice of medicine.
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Practice Building

If chiropractic philosophical skills are not taught and adopted first, practice building skills will be used for selfish means.
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Limitations of Matter

Limitations of matter is not a chiropractic cop out as some would charge. It is fact of life. The medical profession addresses it every day, sometimes unnecessarily. However, it is not part of the practice of chiropractic save one limitation, the inability  of the body to often adapt to universal forces.
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