In the July 2007 issue of the ACA News (okay, I admit, I occasionally read it), William Morgan, DC wrote an article entitled, The Collapse of the Railroads (What Business Are We Really In?). His article which laments the demise of the railroad industry suggests that the railroads failed because they saw themselves in the … Read more
There are many in our profession who believe that the philosophy of chiropractic is a chain that is holding us back from becoming part of the scientific community and mainstream health care. Their position is that as long as we hold to a vitalistic philosophy we will be considered a fringe profession, and we will … Read more
If 10% of the population were going to a chiropractor, every chiropractor would be seeing 584 people per week. v23n1
A reader questioned whether we are really completely correcting vertebral subluxations, that the subluxation may not be an on or off thing and that what we are doing is reducing the degree of interference in the nerve system. That is, that the individual is relatively more subluxation free after our care than before. He used … Read more
A thought on mixing versus educating and adjusting:If people understood chiropractic, chiropractors would have no time to do anything else. If people do not understand chiropractic, chiropractors have no time to do anything else.v22n4
The so-called laws of nature means different things to different people. The mechanist says they are random forces and, depending upon the matter, they elicit a certain response that over time may appear to be orderly but they believe is still random. One response of the matter causes us to describe the matter as living, … Read more
How long could we chiropractors encroach further and further into the practice of medicine before the medical profession cried “enough!” I guess we thought that since we were confining our actions to treating mostly musculoskeletal problems they would not notice. However, the continued and increasing emphasis on diagnosing medical conditions has finally caused them to … Read more
Isn’t it interesting how science is able to cut off debate. Al Gore says in An Inconvenient Truth that as far as science is concerned, the debate is over with regard to global warming and I guess it is, despite the fact that many good scientists reject or question global warming. When one side ends … Read more
I guess the recent success in Michigan has emboldened the merger proponents to make the big leap or perhaps big push, to merge two national organizations. While the “demand” was made by COCSA, it probably reflects the thinking of many of the profession. Some chiropractors use the lack of a unified profession as the reason … Read more
Sometimes we are given words and terms as part of our lexicon and consequently we don’t really give them a second thought as to whether they are sound, proper, or philosophically correct. One such term may be self-organization, referring to the body as being self-organizing. At first glance it would seem to convey a correct … Read more