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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.

Q&A #24

Are spastic muscles a response of the ii of the body to “splint” the spine or are they an effect in the sense of a malfunction of the muscular sysytem  caused by the subluxation or by something else or both?  If they are the result of any of the above, how can we know which?  Further, if ... Read more
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The Power That Made the Body

The powe that made the body heals the body…..sometimes. If that power was God, healing would always occur and it would be complete, no limitations of matter.
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Laws

Innate intelligence is not a physical law like gravity. But then neither is it a spiritual law (a dictate by God)
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A Thought On Research

   If you are going to practice chiropractic by an ouside-in approach, particularly the one treating disease or its cause, then you must subject yourself to the scrutiny of that system’s evaluation process, namely the empirical approach. If, however, you choose to practice chiropractic by the ADIO approach and use a deductive method then you ... Read more
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Chiropractic Stars

Do the Ratledges, the Logans, and the Lobans merely fade into the background of chiropractic history in the bright light of B.J. Palmer or would they have shined as brilliant stars if B.J. had been a lesser light?
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Our Role Deductively

  Our deductive reasoning  proves that every individual’s body works better after having received a chiropractic adjustment. The question is how much better. That question we cannot answer for it depends upon the individual and every person is just that, an individual. Each person coming into the office has to decide for themselves whether the ... Read more
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ADIO Viewpoint

Non therapeutic objective straight chiropractic  relates to one aspect of an ADIO world and life viewpoint, health and one aspect of health, the location analysis and correction of vertebral subluxation. Nowhere does it address disease, its prevention or cause.
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Q & A # 23

If you are into healing, getting sick people well or relating to disease in any way, are you not assuming the responsibility of being able to determine limitations of matter and thus the need for diagnosis and referral?
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A Thought on Charity

Some chiropractors will think nothing of writing a check for $100 to a worthwhile charity. Yet they will not give four free adjustments to a needy person, or worse, will not even accept them as a practice member.
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Q&A # 22

If the 33 Principles form the foundation for chiropractic (and I believe they do) how did we  become a health profession and end up striving to “get sick people well” when there is no use of the word “sick”, not even any mention of  “health” or “wellness”, only “life” and “living things” more than a dozen times in the ... Read more
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