Many Chiropractors who maintain they are “straight” 1. Diagnose and refer or 2. Give nutritional Advice or 3. Believe “by hand only” is the determing 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 … Read more
The innate intelligence of the body has no limitatiuons. Its expression through matter does but we do not know where those limitations are and should not judge whether they have been passed or not. That is one reason why diagnosis and prognosis are not part of the practice of NTOSC.
The Straight Chiropractic Academic Standards Association, Inc. (SCASA) was incorporated in the summer of 1977, just a few short months after the decision to start ADIO Institute of Straight Chiropractic had been made. The accrediting agency would require at least two straight schools, so that May at Sherman’s lyceum, plans had begun to open … Read more
Dear Dr. Strauss If a practice member, for whatever reason decides to listen to the media regarding cervical manipulation and the reported …. but unsubstantiated…claims of vertebrobasilar episodes I feel responsible to respond to their questions and concerns. If as stated above “we will play another game-a non-therapeutic one.” Should I be responding? I know … Read more
Are spastic muscles a response of the ii of the body to “splint” the spine or are they an effect in the sense of a malfunction of the muscular sysytem caused by the subluxation or by something else or both? If they are the result of any of the above, how can we know which? Further, if … Read more
The powe that made the body heals the body…..sometimes. If that power was God, healing would always occur and it would be complete, no limitations of matter.
Innate intelligence is not a physical law like gravity. But then neither is it a spiritual law (a dictate by God)
If you are going to practice chiropractic by an ouside-in approach, particularly the one treating disease or its cause, then you must subject yourself to the scrutiny of that system’s evaluation process, namely the empirical approach. If, however, you choose to practice chiropractic by the ADIO approach and use a deductive method then you … Read more
Do the Ratledges, the Logans, and the Lobans merely fade into the background of chiropractic history in the bright light of B.J. Palmer or would they have shined as brilliant stars if B.J. had been a lesser light?
Our deductive reasoning proves that every individual’s body works better after having received a chiropractic adjustment. The question is how much better. That question we cannot answer for it depends upon the individual and every person is just that, an individual. Each person coming into the office has to decide for themselves whether the … Read more