A paradigm is more then a model. It assumes a way of looking at life. For example, the evolutionist has a naturalistic paradigm. His model assumes that God does not exist, did ot interject Himself into human history and that man has no purpose or rational end. He then goes about accumulating facts to support … Read more
The objective of straight chiropractic is simple and beautiful, to correct vertebral subluxation to enable the innate intelligence of the body to be more fully expressed. The philosophy of chiropractic is complex, as complex as life, but it is logical and can be understood using common sense. The vertebral subluxation, however, is another matter. Medical … Read more
Truth is the verbal coinage by which we exchange concepts of value and engender trust—Ravi Zacharias. During the past year this country has experienced a traumatic series of events surrounded by a disregard for truth and a fudging of words that has led to a situation in which the words have all but lost their … Read more
I was recently discussing the issue of objective straight chiropractic versus traditional straight chiropractic and conservative mixer with one of my friends who is not fond of the term objective straight. He thinks you are either straight or you are a conservative mixer. I jokingly told him that I made up the term because I … Read more
Where does the objective straight chiropractic philosophy begin and end? How can a chiropractor be sure that when he is explaining something to a practice member, he is within the boundaries of straight chiropractic? We have discussed this issue before but since it came up recently on the internet, I thought I would give it … Read more
In the past I have made clear my disdain for the term “subluxation-based chiropractic.” I have never liked it because I feel that any description with only “subluxation” in it is inadequate. The correction of subluxation is the means to an end. Unless you describe the means and the end, you have inadequately described your … Read more
Attacking medicine and its practices is a very important issue in chiropractic and entertains a long history. Many of D.D.’s earliest advertisements were attacks on medicine and the procedures of medical doctors. The objective straight chiropractor has moved away from this kind of activity in an effort to distance the profession from the idea that … Read more
As the practice of medicine and the practice of chiropractic become more similar, the profession is either going to lose its identity or be forced to more clearly define itself. Chiropractors are performing more and more medical procedures and medical doctors are incorporating more drugless procedures ordinarily associated with alternative approaches like therapeutic chiropractic. The … Read more
Those who have read my writings know that I am by nature an optimistic person. I try to be fair in showing the good and, in my opinion, the superior aspects of my manner of practice. I do not make it a practice to attack medical doctors or mixers. I may point out the philosophical … Read more
We all know that most people come into a chiropractic office with musculoskeletal problems rather than organic diseases. I wonder why, when people with medical conditions do come, we do not see the multitude of miracle cures that B.J. and old-time chiropractors write about. Chiropractic has positioned itself as a treatment for musculoskeletal conditions so … Read more