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.
A Little History
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 8 Comments
|When for the last 100+ years the medical profession has attacked us by (correctly) asserting that we were not competent at treating disease, we claimed that was not what we were doing. All the while we were working to become competent at doing just that. Today, we (or at least a significant part of our profession) say ... Read more
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Thinking Straight | 5 Comments
|“Science and religion do not mix”- Joseph Keating PhD The late Dr. Keating maintained that chiropractic as we present it was a religion. It is not. But philosophy, theology and science must be used if you want to come to a complete knowledge of the truth.(and partial truth is no truth) They must be combined because none of them has ... Read more
Read More Q&A #39
Thinking Straight | 486 Comments
|How do we scientifically prove/demonstrate our philosophical objective, that of enabling the innate intelligence of the body’s forces to be more fully expressed, when we do not use symptoms as a criteria?
Read More Why do you love chiropractic?
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 6 Comments
|The current president of the U.S. does not love this country because of what it is or what it has been but because of what he expects to transform it into. Do you love chiropractic because of what it has been, because of the philosophy it has espoused for the past 100 years and what that ... Read more
Read More Loyalty
Student & New Practitioner, Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 8 Comments
|We often must choose between loyalty to a principle (objective) and loyalty to a person (a practice management consultant). B.J. (a person) or the philosophy (a principle), even though most of the philosophy was given to us by B.J. Loyalty to an authority/person should not be in conflict with the principle. If it is, principle trumps.
Read More Slipping and Checking
Thinking Straight | 13 Comments
|When you are lying flat on your back on an icy sidewalk, it’s a little late to check your slipping,
Read More Timing
Thinking Straight | 46 Comments
|The timing of the innate intelligence of the body is always perfect. The only thing that prevents its perfect execution are limitations of the matter carrying the message.
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Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 3 Comments
|We have to have a vision bigger than ourselves-Liam Schubel, D.C. Having that vision requires humility. The chiropractic vision involves the innate intelligence of the body, allowing its full expression. That is a vision greater than ourselves and greater than anything the educated brain can think of or do.
Read More Deduction…
Thinking Straight | 3 Comments
|…comes from the French and means to take away. (That’s why we use the term “deduction” for tax purposes.) The idea in philosophy is to take away error so that you are left with only truth. In a similar manner, science tries to disprove theories and when they cannot, they accept it as a fact.
Read More Intended Result
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 7 Comments
|In chiropractic the only intended result is fulfilling the chiropractic objective, that of correcting vertebral subluxations so that the forces of the innate intelligence of the body can be more fully expressed. Once you have fulfilled that objective your job is done. Everything else is done by the innate intelligence of the body. That is what separates OSC from ... Read more
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