Non therapeutic objective straight chiropractic relates to one aspect of an ADIO world and life viewpoint, health and one aspect of health, the location analysis and correction of vertebral subluxation. Nowhere does it address disease, its prevention or cause.
If you are into healing, getting sick people well or relating to disease in any way, are you not assuming the responsibility of being able to determine limitations of matter and thus the need for diagnosis and referral?
Some chiropractors will think nothing of writing a check for $100 to a worthwhile charity. Yet they will not give four free adjustments to a needy person, or worse, will not even accept them as a practice member.
If the 33 Principles form the foundation for chiropractic (and I believe they do) how did we become a health profession and end up striving to “get sick people well” when there is no use of the word “sick”, not even any mention of “health” or “wellness”, only “life” and “living things” more than a dozen times in the … Read more
Your organs are not smart, they’re not dumb either…just obedient. -Claude Lessard, D.C.
This blog has been in operation for just a little over a year. I have posted 900 times, have received 1,581 comments and we have had over 77,000 views. A big thank you to all who have kept me thinking and helped stave off my inevitable senility. Although some of you may feel that it … Read more
Reggie’s Epiphany In writing his biography Reggie shared with me how he came to understand the non-therapeutic aspect of chiropractic. This 15 min. segment is part of a talk that took place during his 80th birthday celebration in December 2005 at an FSCO Convention.
Dieting is an outside-in approach. Body building is an outside-in approach. Outside-in approaches are never meant to be health measures. That is why, at best, they only treat symptoms and are usually temporary. If an approach is not something that you do for life, then it is a quick fix. It is therapeutic – a treatment. Health measures are lifetime endeavors.
It is not the satisfied person who tells others. It is the enthusiastic, educated person who refers.
Uniting man the material and man the non-material (not man the spiritual) is the goal of the chiropractor. But there is no way to demonstrate that it can be done apart from the nerve system. If it could, the nerve system with all its weaknesses would be obsolete.