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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.

The 33 Principles Q&A # 59

Which of the 33 principles is either not in some form known by the average person or cannot be logically shown to them?
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Condition Centered Chiropractic Q&A # 58

If Chiropractic is condition centered as an administrator at one chiropractic college maintains and the patient comes in the office or the clinic with a condition but is not subluxated, what do you do? You cannot adjust them. If you send them home and refuse to care for them is that medical malpractice and would ... Read more
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Q&A # 57

If vertebral subluxation is the cause of all disease, how could we conclude a person is not subluxated if they show manifestations of disease?
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Problems and Solutions

You never wake up a country (or a profession) by telling it, its problems but by telling it, its solutions.
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The 33 Principles

Does the principlization of chiropractic, that is,defining and explaining the scope and practice of chiropractic by only it’s 33 principles negate the value of wider application like enhancing performance, improving potential and getting sick people well? Does the fact that the 33 principles say nothing about getting sick people well of disease restrict a chiropractor ... Read more
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CAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PHILOSOPHICAL CHIROPRACTIC CO-EXIST?

This was my presentation at IRAPS OCTOBER 2014. It caused quite a bit of discussion, less so as part of a talk at the Garden State Chiropractic Society Convention this past Saturday. I would like to get the comments of readers of this blog. I realize it is longer than the usual post but I ... Read more
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Ray McPike, D.C.

In the mid-70s, as a representative assemblyman in the ICA I met and became friends with the ICA representative from Kentucky. While our personal contact was only at the ICA meetings and the annual convention in Davenport Iowa in August, every year, we often communicated by mail (long before the Internet). At the time Ray ... Read more
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The Intention of the CCE

The Council on Chiropractic Education and the rest of the cabal’s intent is to enslave the minds and the practices of the chiropractic profession. Objective/non-therapeutic chiropractic is a system that creates freedom and independence. People should be free to diagnose and treat disease if they so desire but not be required or taught that they ... Read more
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Reaching the World

There is no easy answer to getting our message out to the world at large and having it accepted. Forty-five years of trying to do it enabled me to build a large, and by most standards, successful practice but I did not even budge the mountain I was trying to move. Not one hospital or ... Read more
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My Berkshire Presentation- a fortiori logic

Speaking at the recent Berkshire Philosophy Event in March, I decided to take the opportunity to share a few things of personal, historical interest before launching into what I wanted to share with my professional colleagues who were attending. My time was gone before I knew it! As I grow older, it’s too easy to ... Read more
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