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 Chiropractic Big Lie
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Part of our problem is that we as a profession have accepted the idea that chiropractic gets sick people well.
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Thinking Straight
|“We should check people’s spine not because they are subluxated (they may not be)… we should check people’s spine because of WHO we are as objective chiropractors… ALL people are equally in need of the chiropractic objective.” Claude Lessard, D.C.
Read More Agendas
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Everyone has an agenda. For some people it consists of getting out of bed in the morning after that, well, ”whatever will be will be”. For some it’s 15 to 20 things to do in the course of the day and a time frame in which to do them. For others it may be an ... Read more
Read More Bureaucracy
Thinking Straight | 4 Comments
|A bureaucracy is an entity that should be under the control of the legislature but somehow it gains independence from that control and establishes itself as an authority, usually because of the lack of vigilance/integrity of the legislature or another branch of government (the Executive [order] or Judicial[incompetence]). Bureaucracies, like the rest of the government ... Read more
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|You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Immature Forever- Judy Campanale, D.C. If we fail to continually educate the members of our practice, on a regular basis, they will stay immature (from lack of nourishment), not thrive in their understanding and eventually “fall by the wayside”.
Read More Odd Isn't It?
Thinking Straight
|Isn’t it interesting that chiropractic began partly because of the dangers and the ineffectiveness of the practice of medicine. Now we are told that we must practice medicine (diagnose and address disease) to reduce the “danger” of the practice of chiropractic.
Read More Partial Biological Death
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Chiropractors do not address the amount or degree of benefit of a chiropractic adjustment. That’s the responsibility of the innate intelligence of the body and depends upon its limitations of matter. Just that being partially dead, you are now a little more alive.
Read More Objectives V. Manifesations
Thinking Straight | 12 Comments
|The objective of chiropractic is improvement in the expression of intelligence through matter. The elapse of time does not hinder the objective, only a possible manifestation of that objective which is the objective of medicine .
Read More Duh!
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Let’s get this straight. We elect representatives by popular vote who know nothing about our profession except what they are told by political organizations who have an agenda like the CCE/ACA/ICA. They appoint bureaucrats who create agencies like the USOE/DOE who create political bureaucracies like the CCE who influence other politically created bureaucracies like state ... Read more
Read More Bad Judgement
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Bad judgement is not knowing and accepting your limitations. When we think it is our objective to get sick people well, we are frustrated by just correcting vertebral subluxations and end up adding therapeutic procedures/objectives.
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