Old Chiropractic Tolerance- accepting/respecting therapeutic chiropractors even though their procedures and actions were unacceptable. New Chiropractic Tolerance-considering their procedures and actions as now acceptable. The new tolerance will lead to the destruction of our profession.
If we try to explain to MDs or even the general public what we do in the framewok of the medical paradigm (egs. get some sick people well by adjustments, or treat certain musculoskeletal problems), some will accept us for that. But we still have not impacted their paradigm. We have just allowed them to … Read more
A naturalistic world view promotes more than just Darwinism in the biological realm. It promotes an anti-authority viewpoint, no law but survival of the fittest. This allows science and the individual to enter into the foray of changing and “evolving” the species with just as much authority as anyone else. They can genetically engineer people … Read more
…but it seems to me that more upper cervical chiropractors are into treating medical conditions or their cause than are into correcting vertebral subluxation to enable the ii of the body to be more fully expressed. The percentage is probably no different than other “straight” chiropractors but because they purport to practice the purest form … Read more
Here’s a question that never seems to R.I.P: Does the innate intelligence of your body “decide” for you to die? Why or why not?
Here’s a question that never seems to R.I.P: Does the innate intelligence of your body “decide” for you to die? Why or why not?
The profession is quickly polarizing into two extreme groups and there does not seem to be any room for compromise as witnessed by the recent furor over the move to broaden the chiropractic law in some sates and the expansion of CCE requirements while at the same time, attempting to get rid of certain terms … Read more
This is a subject BJ never addressed if he felt it existed at all and a number of chiropractors have criticised my presentation of it and the ramifications on the mental impulse, safety pin cycle and normal complete cycle as well as a few other chiropractic philosophical issues like whether there is one or two … Read more
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. -C.S. Lewis
The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners has passed an informed consent regulation which, as I understand it, says that chiropractors must inform patients of the inherent risks of “serious bodily harm” in a chiropractic adjustment. Is there any inherent risk to an adjustment, understanding that an adjustment means to “make right?” Here’s the question: “When … Read more