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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.

Hail CCEasar

In the Roman Empire they had no problem with multiple religions and deities. You could have any religion you wanted as long as you also recognized the emperor as deity. That’s what got the Christians thrown to the lions. Their belief viewed that as blasphemy. The therapeutic members of our profession, the CCE, allows you ... Read more
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A Little Chiropractic History-part 2

In the early history of the profession, many medical doctors took a course in chiropractic since there were numerous chiropractic schools opening up. Some of these medical doctors turned chiropractor really believed that chiropractic was a superior means of correcting the cause of disease. Some thought that chiropractic would be a good adjunct to their ... Read more
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Quotes by John Wooden

“It’s amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”-John Wooden, only man to make the college Hall of fame as a player at Prudue.and a coach at UCLA. “Failure is never fatal but failure to change might be”.-John Wooden
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Medical v Chiropractic Education

To claim that a chiropractor is as well –trained or prepared in medical procedures without a medical school education would be as bad as allowing medical doctors the right to correct vertebral subluxations without the training to do so. People who would make such a claim are suggesting that the hours of uniquely chiropractic education ... Read more
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Crisis

A crisis means there is no solution. As long as there exists a solution, there is no crisis. Is there a crisis in chiropractic?
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The Present Day Application of the Morikubo Case

I think most of us miss the significance of the Morikubo case occurring in 1906. It was more than the first chiropractor being exonerated in a court case in La Crosse Wisconsin. Originally, before BJ and attorney Tom Morris joined the defense of the Japanese American graduate of PSC, he was being charged with practicing ... Read more
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Public Opinion

One thing we can thank Obama for is a better understanding that public opinion means nothing. I guess his hope is that we will change and become a totally Marxist country and as a result public opinion will then remember him as a great president. (Do most communist countries’ public opinion think of Marx as ... Read more
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Cause and Effect

A cause is sufficient if it is all that is necessary for an effect to occur.
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Systems and Authorities

Before there can be a system there must be a Major Premise that is accepted. A major premise requires an authority, faith in Someone or Something whether it is the Bible or a person like a college professor. That’s why systems are required-Authorities usually don’t last. Systems can and do. Examples of Systems and Authorities ... Read more
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Odd Isn't It

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, at least still druglessly for now) to reduce the danger of the practice of chiropractic.
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