Many upper cervical practitioners believed (and some still do) that only HIO was chiropractic, because vertebral subluxations did not exist below Axis and anyone who was adjusting below the second cervical was practicing the “adjustment” of misalignments at best, compensations at worst. What do you think and why?
The government (in the form of the EPA) will not allow towns threatened by mosquito borne West Nile Virus to use pesticides near lake areas because it will possibly affect the local’s hormonal systems. Although in further tests by them and others this theory was proved unfounded. However, the government (in the form of the FDA) … Read more
If the environment was perfect would people still subluxate? If it was and they did, what would/could be the result?
This principle is entitled “organic matter” and it states that the material of the body of a “living thing” is organized matter. First is not any matter living or not with a C-H-O bond considered organic matter ? Second, is not all matter that expresses intelligence, innate or universal, organized matter?
The theory of Empiricism :all true knowledge is derived from observation and experience. Is that a true statement ? Why or why not?
Is a dead body less organized than a living one? Why or why not?
Can chiropractic philosophy exist is a darwinian evolutionary Model? Why or why not?
Do we need the terms principled chiropractors, straight chiropractors, OSCor, non-therapeutic chiropractors? Actually we need chiropractors. But perhaps we need some of these terms until everyone knows what we do. What do you think?
Is the clotting mechanism an innate function or merely a mechanistic, chemical reaction. Explain why?
There are a number of good arguments for HIO but I recently heard an old one that leaves me perplexed. The argument is that the more you allow the body to do for itself like correct subluxations below Axis the stronger it becomes. Conversely, the more you do for it, like correct those subluxations, the … Read more