1. Diagnose and refer or 2. Give nutritional advice or 3. Believe “by hand only” is the determining factor or 4. Use only “conservative” physical therapeutics or 5. Believe subluxations are the cause of all disease or 6. Believe chiropractic gets sick people well or 7. Believe practicing HIO is the determining factor or 8. … Read more
What has come to be called by some as objective straight chiropractic presents a paradox to the rest of the chiropractic world that has caused a considerable amount of disdain and animosity. In the last fifteen years, the opposition to our approach has prevented thousands of students from going to the school of their choice … Read more
Chiropractors are still trying to compare chiropractic education with medical education despite the fact that it is like comparing apples with oranges. All our efforts do is strengthen the misconception that chiropractic is an alternative to medicine, and in most situations, we come off looking like a second-rate alternative. A recent article in Dynamic Chiropractor … Read more
Too many people in this world, in all walks of life appear not to have the slightest idea what they are doing in their work. Even sadder is the fact that many professionals are in the same situation, incompetent to do their job. We, as a profession, tend to be very critical of the medical … Read more
There is considerable confusion within the so-called straight chiropractic community over the issue of doing tests that are traditionally of a diagnostic nature and ordinarily performed by a medical doctor. There is no question that there is an historical basis for straight chiropractors doing procedures like taking blood pressure, looking into the eyes and ears … Read more
One of the great things about the “B.J. period” in chiropractic’s history was that there was no equivocation. What B.J. said was law. If you did not like it or agree with it, then you were not with him. While this caused a lot of people to despise B.J. and probably created much of the … Read more
There is an old saying: Being close is good enough in horseshoes and handgrenades. With a good wide receiver or catcher your pass or throw may be slightly off target and still be successful–most of the time. But there are other areas and activities that demand hitting the bullseye, being close is not satisfactory. … Read more
The chiropractic philosophy has changed little over the past 100 years. Certain aspects of it have not changed at all. We still acknowledge a universal intelligence and an innate intelligence. We still address our attention toward correcting vertebral subluxation as a cause of DIS-EASE. Contrary to the thinking of some, chiropractic never addressed its attention … Read more
I recently had the opportunity to view the video of the Great Debate held in Chicago between two members of the faculty of Sherman College and Joseph Keating, Ph.D. and Craig Nelson, D.C. The topic of the debate was whether a vitalistic philosophy hinders the advance of chiropractic science. The debate quickly evolved into vitalism … Read more
In the January, 1995 issue of one of the profession’s newspapers, the publisher wrote a very fine article on the terms “adjustment” and “manipulation.” He emphasized that definitions are important and that the “chiropractic physicians” are purposefully attempting to get us to use words like “manipulation,” “spinal manipulation,” “spinal manipulative therapy” and even the term … Read more