Blog

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.

TSC and Getting Sick People Well (GSPW) v. OSC (LACVS)

If TSC’s objective is to GSPW, even if it is by correcting VS, why does the chiropractor want payment even if the PM does not get well (probably the worst thing we copied from medicine). OSC, on the other hand, has the objective of LACVS (to enable the forces of the ii to be expressed ... Read more
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Q&A #103 Analysis V. Diagnosis

What’s the difference between a chiropractic analysis and a medical diagnosis?
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Making Good Practice Members

You cannot make good practice members; only they can. Each practice member must make a daily, weekly, and/or monthly effort. Your obligation is to clearly explain to them the value, importance, and rationale behind your care. That is where your responsibility begins and ends. The alternative would be to threaten them under pain of death ... Read more
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Slippery Slopes, Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones

The problem that has confronted and damaged the straight chiropractic movement and probably caused Reggie Gold to abandon it in the 80’s was the realization that the diagnosis issue was a slippery slope that would lead chiropractic down the road to the practice of medicine.The issue of diagnosis has become more of a stumbling block ... Read more
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Balancing Your Life ….

…is really just establishing your priorities in time,
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Our Recent History

Medicine’s success is based upon man’s ability. Chiropractic’s success is based upon the power/ability of the innate intelligence of the PM’s body. I choose the latter. TSC wants to make the choice. That is what split the straight chiropractic profession in the 1980’s. To make the choice necessitates diagnosis.
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Freedom and Responsibility

Abnormal freedom is a form of arrogance and is actually not freedom at all but is anarchy. It is responsibility that is guarding your freedom and the Objective of Straight Chiropractic that is the “first res ponder” for chiropractors.
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What is the Chiropractic Slippery Slope?

If diagnosis was/is the slippery slope of the chiropractor (and it is), then the TSCor is creating ice and the OSCor is spreading salt.
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An Alternative?

TSC seems to present itself as an alternative to medical/therapeutic care but somehow after it succeeds (if it does) the P.M is expected understand/realize that they need regular chiropractic care for the remainder of their life. OSC just starts out explaining that concept before accepting them for care. It appears most chiropractors never understand that ... Read more
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Oligarchy

definition:2. a government in which a small group exercise control esp. for selfish and corrupt purposes. Why are/did not historically more TSCors, (colleges and the profession) rise up and challenge the actions of the CCE to dictate to the profession the objective/practice of chiropractic.?
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