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.
Chiropractors and Balancing the Spine
Thinking Straight | 8 Comments
|Chiropractors do not balance the spine. They balance (reconcile) the expression of the intelligence and the matter. The living body and only the living body takes care of the rest.
Read More Chiropractic and 7-UP
Thinking Straight | 20 Comments
|It’s sad that so few chiropractors who call themselves straight or BJ, or traditional chiropractors ever read Dynamic Chiropractic. The publisher presented an excellent article in the January 1, 2012 issue. He destroyed the fantasy that many of us have, particularly the seminar gurus and practice management consultants who claim we are turning the corner ... Read more
Read More Educated over Innate
Thinking Straight | 19 Comments
|The idea that there is a principle greater than us, that we cannot create a cell, or heal a body is logical. At the same time it is humbling and antagonistic to the ego and pride of the educated mind, so much so that man seems to have a natural inclination toward outside-in approaches that ... Read more
Read More Adaptation
Patient Education, Thinking Straight | 14 Comments
|Adapatation is of prime importance in chiropractic. The purpose of this profession is to enable the innate intelligence of the body to be expressed more fully by removing nerve interference at the vertebral level. The most obvious sign of that expression of intelligence through matter (life) is adaptation. Clearly, the body can also adapt better ... Read more
Read More Philosophical Rationalism
Thinking Straight, Thoughts | 28 Comments
|Philosophical rationalism maintains that reason alone is the basis for the determination of truth. (Descarte and Spinoza). Chiropractic on the other hand acknowledges the understanding of truth by two (perhaps three) means; rationalism and empiricism and perhaps faith( the Major Premise).
Read More Outside-in Causes (an audio)
Future of Chiropractic, Thinking Straight
|Outside-in causes In 1998 the FTC was challenging certain types of chiropractic advertising claims. In this 20 min. talk at New Beginnings, Dr. Joe Strauss addresses that issue. More importantly, he makes it applicable to our situation in 2012.
Read More Q&A #16 Regular Chiropractic Care
Thinking Straight | 15 Comments
|Would you be in favor of the government passing a law that would require everyone to have their spine checked regularly by a chiropractor? Why or Why not?
Read More Q&A #16 Regular Chiropractic Care
Thinking Straight | 15 Comments
|Would you be in favor of the government passing a law that would require everyone to have their spine checked regularly by a chiropractor? Why or Why not?
Read More The Adjustment and Energy
Thinking Straight | 30 Comments
|We are introducing energy into people when we make the adjustment (the adjustic thrust). But that is a side effect which may have good, bad or no apparent ramifications. While it may represent the basis for some healing arts or “chiropractic techniques”, it has nothing to do with the practice of chiropractic. Our intention is ... Read more
Read More Q&A# 47-The Cause of All DIS-EASE
Chiropractic Q&A, Thinking Straight
|When BJ says that chiropractors are “seeking to find specific for the cause of all dis-ease” (Green Book, Volume XIII), what do you think he meant by that statement?
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