If Chiropractic is condition centered as an administrator at one chiropractic college maintains and the patient comes in the office or the clinic with a condition but is not subluxated, what do you do? You cannot adjust them. If you send them home and refuse to care for them is that medical malpractice and would … Read more
Which of the 33 principles is either not in some form known by the average person or cannot logically or by common sense be demonstrated to them?
A reader wrote (years ago in a personal letter): “When faced with questions from lay people about why under certain circumstances healing sometimes fails to occur in spite of this wondrous innate intelligence we espouse, we fall back on the concept of limitations of matter. I believe it is not matter which is limiting , … Read more
A reader posted the following comment “Joe- It seems good reason to me that there should be no distinctive “types” of chiropractors at all. You either are practicing chiropractic, or you are not. Of course, when I make this statement in a public forum there is always one individual that makes the following statement, “why … Read more
Which one of the 33 [principles validates and/or supports the practice of traditional (getting sick people well) chiropractic? (in the absence of a response, I will assume there are none).
The Objective Chiropractor(OSC) addresses the vertebral subluxation and does not address the disease. The therapeutic chiropractor (ThC) addresses only the disease, sometimes using the adjustment. The Traditional Chiropractor (TC) addresses the vertebral subluxation as the cause of disease. Is this a fair assessment?
Some have suggested that there appears to be species or behavior intelligence. It is not universal intelligence because universal intelligence acts the same on all matter. It is not innate intelligence because , whatever it is , it often causes matter to act in a manner contrary to its own best interest and innate intelligence … Read more
A Reader asks: Is the ADIO concept uniquely chiropractic? No, not in my opinion. While the idea of chiropractic as ADIO was first given to us by BJ, chiropractic can be practiced from an ADIO viewpoint ( NTOSC) or from an outside-in perspective (therapeutic). Many other things beside chiropractic can be seen from an ADIO … Read more
When the innate intelligence of the body is faced with external invasive forces (EIFs), whether in the form of toxins, poisons, bacteria and viruses, or any other aspect of the environment, it will endeavor to do what is necessary to adapt the organism to those EIFs. Most of the time it will succeed even if subluxated. Often … Read more
How do we measure DIS-EASE, are their degrees of DIS-EASE?