A Thought on Monitoring Innate Intelligence
If you don’t know whether a sign or symptom is good or bad to start with, how do you know if a change is for the better or worse? v14n3
Is Chiropractic A Health Profession?
[Excerpt from another soon-to-be-published book on Chiropractic Philosophy] The title presents an excellent question, one that has been the topic of considerable discussion among the straight community. First, we need to get the legal aspects out of the way. The laws of most states have defined chiropractic as a health profession. So it is. Further, … Read more
National Organizations and the Definitions?
Has anyone besides me noticed that there are no longer arguments among the profession as to what chiropractic is? I wish I could say it is because we are all in agreement. Perhaps, to some degree, it is because we have matured as a profession. Mostly, it is because the three major factions (represented by … Read more
Force Restoration vs. Matter Improvement
Over the years various chiropractic speakers have divided the profession into two groups. The earliest division, of course, was straights and mixers. What you did with your hands determined the group which you belonged. If you put them on the patient’s spine for the purpose of adjusting a vertebra, you were a straight. If you … Read more
Thoughts on the Chiropractic Objective
One of the greatest breakthroughs in the practice of chiropractic, during its 103-year history, has come about by the decision to define chiropractic by its objective. Up until the early seventies, there were numerous ways to define chiropractic and the arguments regarding what was and was not considered to be chiropractic were constant. With 50 … Read more
Lending Libraries
A while back a question was put to me by a young student on the internet. Actually, the question was two-fold. First, he wanted to know about office lending libraries, were they straight and were they worth the expense. The second aspect of the question related to educating patients about vaccinations so they could have … Read more
Reality Check
After one hundred years, there appears to be a very evident change in the thinking of those chiropractors who might be described as the traditional ones, the one-cause, one-cure chiropractors. There is a not-so-subtle change, if not in the rank and file, at least among the leadership in how they are describing chiropractic. It seems … Read more
THOUGHT
We think our need is to overcome the lifelong meducation of our practice members, but it is more than just medical brainwashing that we need to address. It is the outside-in thinking that permeates every aspect of their lives. Outside-in thinking in the area of health, personified by the medical community is just a small … Read more
Chiropractic as an Alternative to Medicine
To understand the problem with offering chiropractic you have to understand the differences in practice objectives among chiropractors. The traditional straight chiropractor believes as an alternative to medicine chiropractic is an alternative because to him medicine addresses disease by alleviating its symptoms or treating its effects and he (the traditional straight) addresses disease by correcting … Read more
Priorities in Life
With all the discussion about what kind of patients we want (e.g. regular, lifetime families), the fact remains that for most people health is not a priority in their life. They may claim that it is, inasmuch as most surveys list health as one of the three most important things in peoples’ lives. Yet it … Read more