A great percentage of Americans have never been to a chiropractor. That is sad! An even greater percentage of Americans do not know what chiropractic is. That is even sadder! Pivot Review 1998-2003
Vision and Leadership
The straight chiropractic community has always had a dearth of leaders. When B.J. was alive and doing the work of 20 people, it was not so noticeable. After his death it has become painfully clear that there is little vision among the so-called chiropractic leaders. There are definitely exceptions, some very visionary people. But, for … Read more
Do You Want Science or Do You Want Truth?
Our profession is fraught with pseudoscientists. “Pseudo” because they really do not understand the role of science. Science is merely a tool that, if used correctly, can help one come to a knowledge of the truth. If used incorrectly it can really make a mess. If used in conjunction with the tool of philosophy, one … Read more
Practice Building the Sisyphus Way
Sisyphus was the mythological Greek King of the city of Corinth. As the story goes, he displeased one of the gods and was forced to spend eternity rolling a large stone up a steep hill. The catch was, whenever he reached the top, the stone would roll down the hill and he would have to … Read more
THOUGHT
News Item; Wal-Mart the world’s largest private employer announces they will no longer cover chiropractic services as an employee insurance benefit. We have done such a great job convincing the insurance companies that we do the same things that medicine does, i.e., treat disease conditions and their cause, that they have decided we are no … Read more
The ADIO Viewpoint of Life – Part I
Characteristics of an ADIO Philosophy It is important to realize that everyone has a world and life viewpoint. Even the supposed absence of a viewpoint is a viewpoint. There are probably only two viewpoints: we in chiropractic call them the ADIO (above-down, inside-out) viewpoint and the outside-in viewpoint. It often seems like people have more … Read more
Weird Chiropractic
It’s good every once in a while for us to evaluate what we are doing and make sure we are being perceived correctly. Recently, one of my associates gave me an ad of a chiropractor in New Jersey. The ad was in a magazine he had picked up at a local bagel shop. Ordinarily, I … Read more
The ADIO Viewpoint of Life – Part I
Characteristics of an ADIO Philosophy It is important to realize that everyone has a world and life viewpoint. Even the supposed absence of a viewpoint is a viewpoint. There is probably only two viewpoints what we in chiropractic world call the ADIO Viewpoint and the outside-in viewpoint. It often seems like people have more than … Read more
From the Mailbox
A young chiropractor recently wrote to me expressing his concern and displeasure over a Pivot article about the relationship between the objective straight chiropractor and what we would call the traditional chiropractor, the “chiropractic gets sick people well” type, those who usually identify themselves as being subluxation-based. He felt that, while we have some differences, … Read more
THOUGHT
Innate intelligence is not a theological concept but it is an important concept to theology because it is the difference between biologcial life and human life, between a living organism and a living soul.v18n2