Buoyed by the recent activities at the Washington hearings, many in the straight and think they are straight community are asking the following questions: 1. Is our education to prepare us for the practice of chiropractic (LACVS) or to prepare us to interact in an outside-in scientific/medical environment? 2. Have we really determined what is our … Read more
By virtue of our finite mind we cannot help but box in chiropractic. However, the more we learn about chiropractic the bigger our box becomes. If we ever truly understand the breadth of our philosophy we might actually climb outside the box. This blog is about getting people to put one foot on the bottom rung.
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Unless and until we entirely leave the therapeutic model and not try to address disease, its cause, or its prevention or in any way associate LACVS with it, we will be in no-man’s land. We will have no argument against the need for diagnosis. To say that we need to be able to rule out or … Read more
If the rights of the fetus take precedence over or are equal to the rights of the mother and the government should be charged with the responsibility of protecting those rights by legislation, then it is entirely possible that the government will one day decide what a pregnant woman can eat, drink, who can deliver … Read more
The Straight Chiropractic Academic Standards Association, Inc. (SCASA) was incorporated in the summer of 1977, just a few short months after the decision to start ADIO Institute of Straight Chiropractic had been made. The accrediting agency would require at least two straight schools, so that May at Sherman’s lyceum, plans had begun to open … Read more
Philosopher John Searle, politician Patrick Buchanan, and law professor Phillip Johnson have suggested that society is embroiled in a culture war. Chiropractic is one small battle in that war. We often use the word “paradigm” to mean a model. But the word means much more than just that. It is also “the conceptional framework that … Read more
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.
One way I know B.J. was much smarter than me: when he published an epigram, it was succinct and anybody reading it would say “that makes perfect sense!” I, on the other hand, post a thought on the blog and it ends up creating discussion and comments. Last week, I published the following: Old Chiropractic … Read more
The profession is quickly polarizing into two extreme groups and there does not seem to be any room for compromise as witnessed by the recent furor over the move to broaden the chiropractic law in some sates and the expansion of CCE requirements while at the same time, attempting to get rid of certain terms … Read more