The Rise and Fall of Pennsylvania College of Straight Chiropractic For many years I have had the desire to write a book about the experiment that was ADIO Institute of Straight Chiropractic. Retirement from active practice has given me the opportunity to sift through boxes of memorabilia and remember not only my colleagues but also students … Read more
In order to make chiropractic relevant we must: 1. Abandon oppositionalism (toward medicine). That mindset, which unfortunately, BJ gave us, has and continues to hurt us. I think BJ actually believed that chiropractic was so reasonable and made so much sense that the practice of medicine would just naturally fall by the wayside when people … Read more
Why is it that some of the so-called conservative aspect of the Republican Party tend to drift to the left (abandoning the principles of republicanism) without going too much past the center and becoming a Democrat. They are called RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). In chiropractic we have those who have drifted into various degrees … Read more
A system is greater than any individual who helped develop and is part of that system.The individual must subject himself or herself to that system and abide by its principles in order to make it valuable to them and to those they influence. The system must be acceptable by their method of perception, faith, rationalism … Read more
Chiropractic demonstrates that the solution to man’s problems are not, as medicine and other outside-in approaches maintain collective, but are personal and individual.
Chiropractic philosophy is not cocktail discussion any more than socialism/communism and free enterprise represent merely contrasting but friendly philosophical discourse. This is (only cold in name) war. They, the mixers, like the communists are trying to destroy us and what we are all about, our way of life. I’m not talking about political differences (in … Read more
The only difference between the mixer and the traditional chiropractor is the means or the tools by which each group desires to accomplish their identical objective, addressing disease or its supposed cause. The mixer wants to use every tool (including medical diagnosis, referral, therapies, and in the future-drugs), the traditional chiropractor wants to confine his … Read more
Accepting/recognizing authority changes people more than anything else. Accepting the authority of the innate intelligence of the body is the most important thing a chiropractor can do and explaining that authority to the practice member/public is a necessity.
For many years I have had the desire to write a book about the experiment that was ADIO Institute of Straight Chiropractic. Retirement from active practice has given me the opportunity to sift through boxes of memorabilia and remember not only my colleagues but also students who were young men and women to be admired. … Read more
So many are abandoning the correction of vertebral subluxation, that while many chiropractors say they are still into vertebral subluxation correction I think we now have to make it clear why we correct them. The CCE model claims to leave that up to the individual chiropractor to decide (although apparently an undiagnosed person without any … Read more