The Pivot Review was a philosophical newsletter published from 1983 to 2010 by Dr. Joseph B. Strauss. Articles were occasionally aimed at timely topics and issues that may now be unfamiliar to the student or new practitioner. However, the principles applied to these issues are timeless. We hope you are stimulated, challenged, and inspired by this collection of over 600 articles.
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Chiropractic Practice
- Competency in Chiropractic
- Straight Chiropractic and the Spine
- The Spiritual Dimension
- Fee Systems
- Patients Taking Responsibility
- We Need To Improve our Approach
- A Re-examination of the Normal Complete Cycle
- Is Straight Chiropractic a Health Profession?
- What's Our USP?
- Iatrogenic Diseases
- Straight Chiropractic is Alive and Very Well, Thank You
- PVA is a Crock!
- The Six Visions of Chiropractic
- The Objective Straight Chiropractic Vision for Chiropractic
- Caring and Confronting
- Do You Know What You’re Doing?
- Reaching The Masses
- With a Symptom or For a Symptom
- New Approach in Practice Management?
- Chiropractic as an Alternative to Medicine
- Types of Chiropractic Practice Members
- Types of Chiropractic Practice Memebers
- Weekly Visits
- Weird Chiropractic
- Practice Building the Sisyphus Way
- In Practice You Must Be Practical
- Reaching the Unreached
- We Need to See More New Practice Members
- Giving People What They Want
- Underconfronting
- Our Shrinking Chiropractic Practice Box
- Once You Go to a Chiropractor They Keep You Coming Back Over and Over.
- Your Amazing Body
The Future of Chiropractic
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Freedom and Equality
- The Role of Chiropractic
- Flexibility-Inflexibility
- Where Have All the Volume Practices Gone?
- Commencement Address
- Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness – Under Authority
- What's Wrong with the Straight Chiropractic Movement
- Chiropractic Civil Disobedience
- A Personal Observation
- Growing Pains
- Why the South Lost the Civil War
- Chiropractic License Mills
- Peaceful Coexistence
- A Straight Position Paper is Needed
- The Silent Majority
- The Truth Shall Set You Free
- Professional Survival Values
- Words, Words, Words
- Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, Where We’re Going
- World Chiropractic Alliance: A Good Idea?
- Principle and Practice
- Thoughts on Improving our Profession
- Odd, Isn't It?
- Mercy, Wyndham, or ?
- Chiropractors in Hospitals
- Primary Health Care Provider
- The War is Over
- Why Live and Let Live Organization Will Not Work
- Meeting our Professional Mission or I Have a Dream
- Realistic Expectations
- The Brady Bill and Chiropractic
- DIS-EASE in Chiropractic
- Regaining Perspective
- Is Straight Chiropractic a Health Profession?
- Straight Chiropractic is Alive and Very Well, Thank You
- The Managed Care Vision for Chiropractic
- The Six Visions of Chiropractic
- The Objective Straight Chiropractic Vision for Chiropractic
- Education's Vision
- Stretching the Profession’s Vision
- Our Professional Mission
- Chiropractic Destiny
- National Organizations and the Definitions?
- Stretching the Profession’s Vision
- Acceptance and Chiropractic
- Subluxation-Based Nutrition – A Shaky Foundation
- A Subluxation-Free World
- Preserving Our Vitalistic Philosophy
- Reaching the Different World Views
- Unity
- Mega Shifts in Thinking
- Changing B.J.’s and D.D.’s
- Vision and Leadership
- Déjà vu All Over Again
- A Lighthouse or a Flashlight
- Freedom and Security
- Gatekeepers of Health?
- Chiropractic and Health Care
- Third Party Pay
- National Politics and Chiropractic
- Where's The Vision?
- Paradigm Shift
- Prophecy
- Non-Chiropractic Information
- Research-The Greatest Threat to the Future of Chiropractic
- Energized or Burned Out
- Are You Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
- The Medicare Mess
- Conflict of Philosophy-Part I The Future of Chiropractic
- The Tiering, Tottering and Tearing of Our Profession
Mixing-Straight Controversy
- Adjusting Animals
- The Georgia-Michigan "Surveys"
- Neurological-Orthopedic Tests
- Dogma or Principle
- Why We Do What We Do
- Straight Chiropractic
- On Making State Laws
- More on Michigan
- Statement of Purpose
- It Happened Again!
- Chiropractic's Options
- Can Two Walk Together Unless They be Agreed?
- Do Chiropractors Refer?
- Working Together
- Doctor or Technician
- Neurological Orthopedic Tests – Part II
- Confusion
- Mercy, Wyndham, or ?
- Primary Health Care Provider
- Why Live and Let Live Organization Will Not Work
- How Easily We Forget
- The Callousness of Medicine
- What’s So Bad About Mixing?
- P.T. and the D.C.
- Dialogue, Debate, and Dissolution
- Ambiguity in Chiropractic
- Diagnosis versus Monitoring Innate
- The Paradox of Straight Chiropractic
- Chiropractic as a Cure-All
Patient’s Education
- Patient Education – Is It Important Anymore?
- Caring in Chiropractic
- Preventing Subluxations
- Failed Expectations
- Results and Referrals
- A New Image
- Explaining the Patient's Options
- PATIENT EDUCATION
- Assuming Responsibility for One's Decisisions
- Therapeutic Chiropractic
- Let's Be Honest
- Let's Get Technical
- Children and Chiropractic
- Patients Taking Responsibility
- Vision Within the Chiropractic Media
- Reaching The Masses
- Priorities in Life
- Innate Forces
- “We Need To Meet People Where They Are”
- Nobody Really Likes New Practice Members
Philosophy
- Thought for the Month
- The Role of Fever- A Philosophical Explanation
- Vertebral Subluxation – A Deductive Approach
- Innate or Innates
- How Do You Listen to Innate
- Napoleon's Glands
- Anorexia Philosophica
- Actions Speak Louder than Words
- Epistemological Rehabilitiation
- ODD, ISN’T IT?
- INNATE OR innate
- Intrinsic Value
- Objectives and Results
- The Chiropractic Objective
- Criteria for Care
- CHARACTERISTICS OF A MEMBER OF THE PIVOT
- Deductive Reasoning – Philosophy and Practice
- CHARACTERISTICS OF A MEMBER OF THE PIVOT – PART II
- Organization
- Hegelian Logic and Chiropractic
- Vertebral Subluxation Complex
- Mental Impulses and Nerve Impulses
- Dis-ease
- Chiropractic and the Environmentalists
- Thought on Environment
- Practicing without the Philosophy
- CHIROPRACTIC AS A CURE ALL
- Chiropractic is Non-Prescriptive
- Odd, Isn't It?
- What is Chiropractic?
- Conservative Health Care
- A Philosophical Case History
- The Triune of Man
- A Philosophical Case History – An Answer
- Thoughts on our Major Premise
- Removing Interferences
- Objectives and Principles
- Simplistic Chiropractic
- Chiropractic Apologetics – Part II
- Terminology
- Specificity
- Objectives
- The Uniqueness of Straight Chiropractic
- Straight/Mixing Education
- Innately Directed
- Sports Chiropractic
- Confusion
- Educated Determinations
- Competency in Chiropractic
- Straight Chiropractic and the Spine
- Chiropractors in Hospitals
- CHIROPRACTORS GET SICK PEOPLE WELL – NOT!
- The Spiritual Dimension
- Philosophy or Education
- Checking our Slipping
- Straight Chiropractic
- Fee Systems
- Philosophy, Firewalks, Fanatics and Freaks
- Patients Taking Responsibility
- Making Up New Words and Phrases
- The Brady Bill and Chiropractic
- DIS-EASE in Chiropractic
- We Need To Improve our Approach
- If a Tree Falls in the Forest….
- Chiropractic and Nature
- The Body Heals Itself!?
- DIS-EASE in Chiropractic
- Chiropractic With(out) Compromise?
- Regaining Perspective
- Interpreting B.J.'s Writings
- How Easily We Forget
- The Callousness of Medicine
- What’s So Bad About Mixing?
- P.T. and the D.C.
- Iatrogenic Diseases
- Science and Philosophy
- PVA is a Crock!
- The following is an excerpt from a soon to be published philosophy book by Joe Strauss. This chapter is about the four great lies that are told to us as chiropractors and this excerpt is lie number two
- Semantics are Important
- Dialogue, Debate, and Dissolution
- Human Potential
- Missing The Mark
- Ambiguity in Chiropractic
- Diagnosis versus Monitoring Innate
- Do You Know What You’re Doing?
- Chiropractic Education verses Medical Education
- The Paradox of Straight Chiropractic
- Many chiropractors who maintain that they are “straight:”
- Revisionist History
- With a Symptom or For a Symptom
- Priorities in Life
- Chiropractic as an Alternative to Medicine
- Reality Check
- Lending Libraries
- Thoughts on the Chiropractic Objective
- Force Restoration vs. Matter Improvement
- Is Chiropractic A Health Profession?
- Is Chiropractic a Health Profession?
- Chiropractic Commentary
- Ad Hominum Arguments and Straw Man Arguments
- Manipulative Medicine
- A Philosophical Question
- Diagnosis and Chiropractic
- Illegitimate Chiropractic
- Further Thoughts on Preventing Subluxations
- Are Chiropractors Practicing Medicine?
- A Philosophical Question
- Language of Accommodation
- Getting Sick People Well
- Reality Check
- The Conflict is Clarifying
- Medical Bashing
- Subluxation Based Chiropractic
- The ADIO Philosophy
- Were Our Forefathers Straight Chiropractors?
- The Meaning of Words
- The Elusive Subluxation
- Paradigms
- Faith, Empiricism or Reason
- The following is an excerpt from a NOT soon to be published commentary on The Green Books.
- Chiropractic is Different
- This is a commentary on Volume 34, “Evolution or Revolution” Chapter 4
- Terminology
- Mental Impulses
- Dead Doctors Don't Lie and Live Doctors Don't Tell the Truth
- Dissing B.J.
- Medicine’s Strategic Victory
- The Principle of the Innate Intelligence
- 300,000 Dead 4 Million Injured ~Hospitals are Killing Us
- Which Candidate is Pro Chiropractic?
- Intolerance
- It’s Not My Problem
- Medical Bashing
- True Science
- It’s Not My Problem
- True Science
- A Walk in the Woods
- Living Innately
- Technique and Straight Chiropractic
- Honesty, Integrity and Semantics
- “Inhibitions Starve History”
- Technique and Straight Chiropractic
- Locate, Analyze and . . .
- “An Unchanging Principle in a Changing World”
- Dealing With the Environment
- Locate, Analyze and …
- Unity
- Changing B.J.’s and D.D.’s Chiropractic
- The Vertebral Subluxation
- Neither Fish Nor Fowl
- The Vertebral Subluxation
- Mega-shifts in Thinking
- Intellectual Chiropractic
- Intellectual Chiropractic
- The Sacred Trust
- Thoughts on Research
- Authority and Reason in Practice or Because I Said So
- From the Mailbox
- The ADIO Viewpoint of Life – Introduction
- The Adio Viewpoint of Life ~ Introduction
- Limitations of Matter
- Getting Well
- Limitations of Matter
- The ADIO Viewpoint of Life – Part I
- Do You Want Science or Do You Want Truth?
- Houston We’ve Got a Problem
- Closet Mechanists
- ADIO Viewpoint Part II
- Revisiting Our Objective
- Tolerating the Intolerant
- Clinical Research
- It’s Time We Face the Facts
- Massage Therapy
- Mechanism vs Vitalism
- Recently on the F.A.C.E. Message Board
- F.A.C.E. Position Paper – Insurance
- What the Heck is “Centrist” Chiropractic?
- Principled Chiropractic
- THOUGHT
- Checking our Slipping
- Science and Philosophy
- Progressive Chiropractic
- Mentoring
- Self-Organization
- Taking in Context
- What’s Wrong with Just Correcting Vertebral Subluxations?
- Two Questions
- A Word of Encouragement (Hopefully)
- The State of the Philosophy
- What’s So Bad About Discussing Symptoms?
- What is Objective Straight Chiropractic?
- Vaccination and Non-Therapeutic
- Validating Chiropractic
- Changing People
- Intelligent Design and Chiropractic
- A Rose By Any Other Name
- Making Chiropractic Something It is Not
- The Scope of Practice Partnership
- Innate Intelligence Caused Vertebral
- Philosophical and Theological Distinctions
- The Curse of Chiropractic
- Theology and Chiropractic Part 2
- Theology and Chiropractic Part 3
- Proving Chiropractic Scientifically
- What is Self-Organization?
- Merger Part II
- It Was Only a Matter of Time
- The Laws of Nature
- From the Mailbag
- Chiropractic Philosophy: Chain, Anchor or Rudder
- Railroads and Chiropractic
- Adaptation and Evolution
- Common Sense and Chiropractic
- Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Philosopher?
- Anthropopathisms in Chiropractic
- Syncretistic Chiropractic
- Pascal’s Wager and Chiropractic
- Diagnosis
- A View From the Sky Box
- God Preserve Us from the Environmentalists
- Really, We Are Turning the Corner
- A Difference Between Medicine and Chiropractic
- Science and Philosophy
- We Have Fumbled the Ball
- Natural, Supernatural and Metaphysical
- The Right to Health
- Point–Counter Point
- R.I.P.-the 100th Monkey is Dead
- Are You Still Enjoying Practice?
- Death of the Grownup
- I’m Confused
- Is There Something Inadequate About Our Service?
- The Lines are More Blurred Than Ever
- Innate Intelligence
- An Aphilosophical Profession?
- Are Subluxations Bad?
- Mailbox Question
- Vitalism and Health Care
- A Question for "Chiropractic Diagnosticians"
- A Question for "Chiropractic Diagnosticians"
- A Chiropractic World View
- Educating the Public
- Lies, D*#! Lies and Statistics
- Has Mechanism Infiltrated Chiropractic?
- Principles in Chiropractic
- Outside-in vs. ADIO
- The Adjustment
- The 100th Monkey Effect
- The Environment
- Odd Isn't It?
- Metaphysical and Supernatural
- ADIO v. OIBU v.?
- Chiropractic Education
- Acting on Principle
- What is the reason for chiropractic's success?
- ADIO World and Life Viewpoint
- Compromise
- Disease v. DIS-EASE
- Charges and Responses
- Another Reggie quote6-17-95 (okay, I save everything)
- Straight Education
- ADIO v. OIBU
- Fighting disease
- Wish I'd Said That
- Cause of Disease
- The Inadequacy of Science
- Wish I'd Said That II
- Chiropractic and Drug Prescriptions
- Chiropractic and Purpose
- Conflict of Philosophy–Introduction
- Objective Straight Chiropractic
- Can I do Anything More for My Problem?
- How Important is Vertebral Subluxation?
- Inconsistent Thinking
- Our World and Life Viewpoint
- A Thot on Prescribing
- The Philosophy of Science
- Alternative Health Care
- Wish I'd Said That III
- Chiropractic is Mainstream
- A Thought on WALVs
- Conflicts in Philosophy
- Educating Practice Members
- The Adjustment
- A Thought
- Unity
- Professional Education
- Settling for Less
- A Thot
- Recognizing the Metaphysical
- Wish I Said That
- Educated/Innate Intelligence
- How Important is the Vertebral Subluxation?
- Conflict of Philosophy Part II
- Chiropractic Is An Alternative
- Wish I Said That
- Universal and Divine Laws
- Medicine V Chiropractic
- Smorgasbord Chiropractic
- Wish I’d Said That
- Chiropractors as Technicians
- A Thought
- A Question
- Argument from Ignorance and the Mental Impulse
- ADIO vs Outside-In
- *Important* What Should We Do? *Important*
- Verbal Cleansing, Political Correctness and Changing our Understanding
- Ayn Rand and Chiropractic
- The Chicken or the Egg?
- Non-Therapeutic or Therapeutic?
- A Sense of Organization
- A Thought on Negativism
- Wish I'd Said That-Growth
- Traditional Chiropractic
- Stem Cell Research and Outside-in Thinking
- Thinking Deductively
- On the subject of deduction….
- Purposeful Action
- Wish I'd Said That
- The Boring from Within spoken of by BJ
- Innate or Instinct?
- An Historical Perspective in Straight Chiropractic
- What is Objective Straight Chiropractic?
- What is Traditional Straight Chiropractic?
- Objective Straight Chiropractic Terminology
- Referral
- Medicine and Objective Straight Chiropractic
- Diagnosis
- Cause of Disease
- X-Ray
- Insurance
- Neurological/Orthopedic Tests
- Are Vertebral Subluxations Always Bad?
- Chiropractic and its Role in the Health-Care Profession
- A New Model for the Mental Impulse
- 3,000 Miles in Search of Philosophy
- Wish I'd Said That
- Practice Member Education.
- Our Chiropractic Treasure
- We Are Not Second Class Citizens
- External Invasive Forces
- An Observation in Understanding Our Philosophy
- Just a thought
- Understanding Subluxation
- Thought
- Our unique role as chiropractors.
- The cause of disease