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There is nothing one mortal man is capable of doing for or to another, within the physical realm, to make that person’s body healthier or function more effectively other than to remove nerve interference, step back, and allow the innate intelligence of the body to express itself.

Medical doctors use to claim that people get well under chiropractic care only because the chiropractor would spend time with the patient and the soothing, caring conversation and personal touch was what did it. Then why don’t the mds assume that approach? If they really believed that idea (and they don’t) it must be that ... Read more

In Love Medicine and Miracles, Bernie Siegel implies that the self healing mechanism is a function of the doctor when he says we must “create caring, compassionate physicians, not technicians”. Perhaps they (the m.d.’s) must do that but people must learn to live their own lives. It is just as wrong to depend upon a ... Read more

There are no icons in chiropractic, at least not in its philosophy, as much as some would like to create them (of themselves or others). Anyone’s ideas are and should be open to scrutiny and critical evaluation.

It seems to me that the 33 principles are enough science to explain and validate chiropractic and its philosophy. When we begin to incorporate other scientific fields, philosophies, personal viewpoints and or religions into our chiropractic philosophy we run the great risk of mixing our chiropractic with these other areas of study. Regardless of how ... Read more

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

The only problem with prosperity is that it tends to cause one to lose his priorities.

Who gets to define what the practice of chiropractic is(at least in the U.S.)? In 1974 that question was answered once and for all when Louisiana, the last state in the United States to do so, licensed chiropractic and chiropractors agreed to be licensed to practice under the aegis of the state. Chiropractors once and ... Read more

Are we trying to corroborate our chiropractic philosophy by research because of its weakness or its inability to stand as a deductive science? Or because we believe it is not acceptable to those in the scientific community, the health professions, the general public and many in our own profession?

It’s clear that the schools are not teaching students how to educate their practice members when they get into practice. Practice management consultants cannot teach you either. TheY have a few recipe programs in which they tell their “students” to recite a few words but that is too little in accomplishing the objective. There are ... Read more