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.

Q&A #70

Can you enable people to reach their full potential in the area of health if you are not a health profession?
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A Facebook Post

A short while back on one of the Facebook groups, someone posed the question as to who were the 3 best speakers in chiropractic. As with most Facebook postings there was a wide disagreement in responses. (They probably said speakers rather than writers because you would be hard-pressed to find three people who are publishing ... Read more
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Theology and Chiropractic Phlosophy

To drag theological questions/issues into chiropractic philosophical discussion is divisive and unfair to both chiropractic and theology.
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A "successful" adjustment

It is not merely the amount or quality of the effort by the chiropractor, in giving the adjustic thrust that causes it to be a successful event. It is also the amount of the effort of the practice member’s innate intelligence. The only thing that determines that success is the quantity and quality of the ... Read more
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OSC, Medicine and Global Warming Consensus.

There is nothing wrong with being in the minority and not part of the consensus when you know you are right.
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A little U.S, History that affects chiropractic.

Let’s get this straight. We elect representatives by the popular vote (of the mostly uninformed). They appoint bureaucrats who create agencies like the USOE who then appoint other unelected bureaucracies like the CCE who make the decisions for our profession and coerce us into following them. Do you think that’s what the Founders of the ... Read more
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Incorrect Thinking

You cannot keep the power of incorrect thinking under control unless the majority or at least a great percentage of the people of a nation, community, organization or group adhere to correct thinking, The chiropractic profession has been lacking that necessary percentage over the past few decades since the passing of the benevolent dictator, B.J. ... Read more
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Post Civil War Prosperity

Perhaps just as the country took a great leap forward after the four year retardation of the War Between the States, our profession will take a giant leap forward if we can somehow get past the retardation that has befallen us as a result of the CCE.
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Your World and Life Viewpoint

The greatest hindrance to understanding and applying chiropractic philosophy is the refusal to disregard previous ideas, paradigms, and thinking and look at the world in light of an ADIO viewpoint.
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OSC/TSC

Who is the greatest enemy of the future of chiropractic, the mixer who is blatantly and openly trying to move us into the practice of medicine or the Traditional chiropractor who is ignorantly doing it by adopting outside-in, getting sick people well concepts, like research, into the “side effects” of chiropractic by addressing medical conditions?
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