Blog

The treatment of disease is always a hit or miss situation. “Alternative medicine” (which some mistakenly think chiropractic is part of) is not merely two alternatives to the same destination (objective). If one route is better it should be taken. But in going down that road, you do not know whether it will be better ... Read more

If you stop learning the philosophy today, you stop teaching your practice members tomorrow.

   Our dogma is that chiropractors only correct vertebral subluxations to enable the innate intelligence to be more fully expressed. Our philosophy includes the principles, theories, science and concepts that give credibility to and explain our dogmatic objective. Our philosophy may change as our reasoning becomes more sound, as scientific discoveries impact it, and as we ... Read more

It isn’t just knowing the chiropractic philosophy that is important. It is being able to apply it to your thinking and experience in day to day life and in your practice that counts.

I cannot imagine the chiropractic profession  seperating into two professions. We (the straights) will not give up the name “chiropractic” because of  prior rights and respect for  the Palmer association with it.  They (the medipractors) will never call themselves something else because, while they want to be something else, they want the positive P.R. of ... Read more

If B.J. Palmer was not the autocratic, dictatorial, strong, unbending personality he was we would probably not have had the Howards and Janses of his day or the Wintersteins and Donohues of today.  On the other hand, if not for those character traits in B.J., would we have a profession today?

We have been enticed, or more correctly, allowed ourselves to be enticed, into mainstream healthcare acceptance by taking a limited outside-in approach to our profession. We have sold our birthright (correcting vertebral subluxations for better innate expression) for a bowl of pottage (treating musculoskeletal conditions). We did it for the same reason Esau did. We ... Read more

We seem to be anxious to criticize and challenge the practices of medicine but rarely do we ever question the philosophy of medicine. What’s wrong with the philosophy of medicine, or all outside-in approaches for that matter? Hopefully, we can come up with more than one thing.

We seem to be anxious to criticize and challenge the practices of medicine but rarely do we ever question the philosophy of medicine. What’s wrong with the philosophy of medicine, or all outside-in approaches for that matter? Hopefully, we can come up with more than one thing.

The chiropractic philosophy is the compass for our profession. The chiropractic objective is due north. A compass is worthless unless it points north.