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.
Environment-Q&A # 41
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight | 13 Comments
|If the environment was perfect would people still subluxate? If it was and they did, what would/could be the result?
Read More Contrasts
Thinking Straight | 10 Comments
|Medicine deals with health and disease. Spinology addresses human potential. Objective straight chiropractic improves the expression of the innate intelligence of the body.
Read More Instinct
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 30 Comments
|Instinct-an impulse without reason. However, the innate intelligence of the body has reasoning ability in the sense that it will “choose” to do what is best for the body and most conservative (in time and matter)… and then do it, within the limitations of the matter with which it has to work. Sometimes it may be ... Read more
Read More Innate Matter
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|Living things have a teleological or purposeful behavior. It is directed toward some end, either to stay alive or keep their offspring alive assuring the perpetuation of the species.
Read More What is the Difference between Objective Straight and Traditional Straight Chiropractic?
Thinking Straight | 27 Comments
|Why is it that historically no one ever seems to want to identify themselves as anything but a straight chiropractor? While chiropractors were perfectly willing to hang a sign outside the office saying “Straight Chiropractor,” I’ve never seen one that says “Mixer Chiropractor.” Is it because chiropractors truly do not understand the difference or because ... Read more
Read More Diagnoses
Patient Education, Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|To my knowledge no chiropractor has ever been held liable for not making a diagnosis when he informed the potential patient/practice member that he did not and would not perform that service. Many have been held responsible for making an incorrect one. It seems to me that the likelihood is greater if you try to ... Read more
Read More Words To Remove From Our Chiropractic Vocabulary
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|Just as we are adding words to our chiropractic vocabulary, words like “educational universal forces” and “foruns.” there are words and phrases that by virtue of our chiropractic understanding, we should be removing from our chiropractic vocabulary and our vocabulary in general especially as we speak from a chiropractic position. I have begun with five of ... Read more
Read More The Outside-in Approach
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|The major problem with the outside-in approach is when you are on the outside. you cannot know what’s going on inside.
Read More Reaching the Therapeutic Chiropractor
Thinking Straight | 2 Comments
|There are chiropractors who are not NTOCtors but know enough about chiropractic to know they are not one. That is sad. But saddest of all are those who don’t know enough about chiropractic to even know they are not one. They will not become a NTOSCor until they investigate and learn what it is and that ... Read more
Read More Innate Living
Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|Educatedly getting back to innate living begins first with removing interferences to the educated brain.
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