Okay, here’s a test whether you think outside-in or not. Some time back an editorial in a chiropractic publication described the actions of a managed care organization that was paying chiropractors less than medical doctors for services involving the same CPT codes. The editorial was encouraging chiropractors to send money to a Legal Action Fund … Read more
There seems to be a concerted effort among some in our profession to bring our chiropractic philosophy into line with the “new science,” holistic healing and quantum mechanics. In doing so, many are inadvertently or purposefully abandoning our metaphysical underpinnings. Some of our problem begins with our post-Newtonian world view. Poor Isaac Newton gets blamed … Read more
have no idea what the strategic plan was on the part of those who would medicalize chiropractic to motivate them to take on the largest chiropractic college in the world. It would seem a smaller school with less political and financial clout would have been a better choice. If we are to assume that this … Read more
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
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
In modern-day straight chiropractic, the objective straight chiropractor has totally eliminated the problem of limitations of matter except with regard to whether the practice member can accept the introduction of the force. Once we abandoned the objective of getting sick people well and began to concentrate on the objective of correcting vertebral subluxations simply because … Read more
What does it mean to get well from a chiropractic standpoint? Does it relate at all to how you feel? For most people it definitely does. People even verbalize it on occasions with a statement like, “I don’t feel well today.” Yet we know that “well” does not relate to the presence or absence of … Read more
In modern-day straight chiropractic, the objective straight chiropractor has eliminated the problem of limitations of matter except with regard to whether the practice member can accept the introduction of the force. Once we abandoned the objective of getting sick people well and began to concentrate on the objective of correcting vertebral subluxations simply because they … Read more
The concept of an ADIO viewpoint is very nebulous to many chiropractors. If one sees chiropractic as just another therapeutic approach and not completely different than all the so-called healing arts, then it is understandable that the ADIO viewpoint would be elusive. Reading B.J. is not all that helpful. He never really saw the ADIO … Read more
The concept of an ADIO viewpoint is very nebulous to many chiropractors. If one sees chiropractic as just another therapeutic approach and not completely different than all the so-called healing arts, then it is understandable that the ADIO viewpoint would be elusive. Reading B.J. is not all that helpful. He never really saw the ADIO … Read more