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Buoyed by the recent activities at the Washington hearings, many in the straight and think they are straight community are asking the following questions: 1. Is our education to prepare us for the practice of chiropractic (LACVS) or to prepare us to interact in an outside-in scientific/medical environment? 2. Have we really determined what is our ... Read more

True chiropractic education is not so much learning as it is becoming.

By virtue of our finite mind we cannot help but box in chiropractic.  However, the more we learn about chiropractic the bigger our box becomes. If we ever truly understand the breadth of our philosophy we might actually climb outside the box.  This blog is about getting people to put one foot on the bottom rung.

Innate intelligence (which we sometimes ignorantly refer to as “nature”) needs no help, just no interference.

Wes Trout of Northumberland, Pennsylvania was a quiet, unassuming gentleman who loved chiropractic.  Usually, men who start practice building/motivational seminars are charismatic, gregarious people who tend to attract multitudes of loyal followers.  That was not Wes.  What came through clearly about him, however, was his love for chiropractic and his desire to see chiropractors have ... Read more

As of today 8-23-12, we have just passed 100,000 views for this blog since it began in April 2011. Thank you to all who have made it a wortwhile endeavor.

Innate intelligence is not medicine’s “viz medicatrix.” Innate intelligence is not Deepak Chopra’s “mind”. Innate intelligence is not naturalism’s “nature”. Innate intelligence is not a theological or religious construct. Innate intelligence is a unique principle explained only by chiropractic philosophy, nothing more, nothing less.

Some aspects of vitalism (and some vitalistic approaches to chiropractic) claim that their aproach is an attempt to get us in “balance with nature” as if nature and man are one giant organism like the body,  that needs to be in balance….that’s the religion of pantheism. In chiropractic philosophy that is not so. The  intelligence ... Read more

Our ADIO philosophy does not change the facts of the world but it may change how we view those facts and that can make all the difference in the world. That difference can only exist as long as we stay separate  from the outside-in viewpoint.

It is interesting that the critics of chiropractic often charge that our philosophy is too simplistic. Yet the outside-in philosophy, epecially medicine is where the simplistic approach exists and actually originated.  We do not say “this germ causes this disease” and “that germ causes that disease.”  We do not blame hay fever on ragweed pollen. ... Read more