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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.

Objective Straight Chiropractors

Being an objective straight chiropractor is thought to mean one who has has an objective and that is true. But there is another definition of objective. It is the opposite of subjective. It means that you act upon standards greater than subjective, self -focused ones. What are the objective standards of objective straight chiropractic?
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Educated v. Innate

The educated brain of man can build a skyscraper out of wood and steel, bricks and mortar. The innate intelligence of the body can make an educated brain cell out of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. In which should our confidence lie?
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Discussion: Chiropractic as a Health Care Profession

Position: If the vertebral subluxation is an anatomical and physiological abnormality and anatomical and physiological abnormalities are the domain of a health care profession then chiropractic is a health care profession. Response: What makes chiropractic unique and arguably places it outside the so-called health care professions is the fact that a metaphysical aberration,in the form ... Read more
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Q&A#35-Afferent nerve interference

“There is no record of any interference on afferent nerves by any of our electroencephaloneuromentimpograph readings”- BJ Palmer (audio tape recording)1951/1953. What do you think of that statement?
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Q&A#35-Afferent nerve interference

“There is no record of any interference on afferent nerves by any of our electroencephaloneuromentimpograph readings”- BJ Palmer (audio tape recording)1951/1953. What do you think of that statement?
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Use or Lose?

Isn’t it sad that many chiropractors want to leave chiropractic where its philosophy paused in 1961 and not carry on by continuing to develop the great thinking that was given to us up to that time. I believe that the understanding of any great idea either goes forward and grows or stands still and withers. ... Read more
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Power influence.

We must realize how much a sphere of influence, we have as NTOSCors. I hate to think where chiropractic would be today if it were not for the NTOSC movement begun in 1973 with the founding of Sherman,the FSCO, and people like Thom Gelardi and Reggie. There is no doubt the “objective” aspect of NTOSC ... Read more
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Adjustment Reaction

What we have traditionally called an adjustment reaction should be more appropriately called an adjustment response. Reaction has a negative connotation. Two of the three responses are not necessarily negative and the third is not the result of the adjustment but of the universal force of the adjustic thrust which may or may not be ... Read more
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Cause and Effect

Effect nearly always follows cause immediately. If it does not you must question whether it is THE cause . It may be but it is more likely a contributing factor rather than the cause. It seems to me that B.J. and those that followed him were incorrect in maintaining that VS was the cause of ... Read more
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I Don't Know.

Why is it we are so embarrassed making that statement? Perhaps we should make an effort to explain to people just how much we and all of science don’t know about anything, epecially when it comes to matters concerning the human body.
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