We are now into the third year of the publishing of the Pivot Review. Many new subscribers have joined along the way. Perhaps they do not know exactly what the “Pivot” is. The word is a chiropractic term when it relates to the Axis vertebra, however, the Pivot has a second meaning, that is, a … Read more
Who should make the laws governing the practice of chiropractic? We all understand that while the legislature makes the laws, their responsibility is to pass legislation that represents or reflects the will of the majority as long as that will does not infringe upon common sense or the rights of the individual. We safeguard their … Read more
The intention within a segment of the mixers in our profession is to perform the chiropractic procedure only on those people who manifest a diagnosed medical condition which has been deemed amenable to chiropractic. Unfor tunately, they are attempting to legislate against chiroprac tors adjusting subluxations because the subluxation is itself a detriment to the … Read more
It is important to continually clarify the objective of chiropractic. The tremendous growth of the profession in the last 75 years has created considerable confusion on the part of the public. That is not difficult to understand. As technics change, people become confused about the objectives of a profession. Medicine, as recently as 200 years … Read more
Attempting to identify yourself as a straight chiropractor is becoming rather ludicrous. It’s ironic that the term was begun years ago by B.J. and resurrected again in the mid 70’s in order to clarify a chiropractor by his objectives. It seems that so many chiropractors with such diverse methods of practice are calling themselves straight … Read more
Many of the problems within our profession, namely, the dissension, the wide variations in practice, and even the lack of acceptance comes from a confusion between our objective and the results of that objective. The objective of chiropractic is to locate, analyze and correct vertebral subluxations in order to enable the innate intelligence of the … Read more
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, December 23, 1776. v2n6
Often we lose the perspective of what we are doing, that of correcting vertebral subluxations, in contrast to what the medical doctor is doing, that of treating disease. In presenting the straight chiropractic objective we acknowledge the necessity and the value of medicine. While it is true it does have value – that value is … Read more
Recently an editorial appeared in a chiropractic publication (a very good publication which I recommend to every D.C.) which took to task the “trend among straight chiropractors to not capitalize innate intelligence.” There, I did it again! The editorial quoted D.D. Palmer in the Chiropractor’s Adjuster saying “Innate Intelligence is, or should be personified, used … Read more
Chiropractors scream bloody murder when physical therapists try to obtain the right to “manipulate” the spine, saying the therapists are infringing upon the practice of chiropractic. Yet we have no qualms about attempting to infringe upon areas of medicine. When the medic cries “You are unqualified,” we say “They’re just upset because we are perhaps … Read more