The last issue dealt almost entirely with moral courage as a characteristic. In this issue a few more characteristics will be addressed. 1. Integrity. This is a quality sorely lacking in most aspects of society today. Dishonesty appears to be an acceptable way of life. No one is shocked at the revelation of a crooked … Read more
Those within the chiropractic profession who call themselves chiropractic “scientists,” clinical chiropractors, or broad scope practitioners tend to look rather condescendingly at the chiropractic philosopher. Somehow they view those who have a strong philosophical base for their practice as ignorant, religious fanatics who worship B.J. Palmer, innate intelligence, or both. It is strange how they … Read more
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
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
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
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
A good deal of the problem with the extreme differences within the chiropractic profession today is rooted in the thinking of the chiropractor. Obviously what you think the objective of the chiropractor should be will affect your practice. The straight has a “vertebral subluxation correction objective,” the mixer has a “disease treatment objective.” But perhaps … Read more