Patient Education

Learning Our Lexicon

The deeper the thought the greater the vocabulary needed to express that thought. The more primitive your language, the more primitive your thinking. Some people’s vocabulary and hence their thinking is confined to four letter words. The last great language for thought and expression was in the fifth century B.C. with the development of the … Read more

Public Opinion

One thing we can thank Obama for is a better understanding that public opinion means nothing. I guess his hope is that we will change and become a totally Marxist country and as a result public opinion will then remember him as a great president. (Do most communist countries’ public opinion think of Marx as … Read more

Validation

Validate is defined as, “to establish something as valid.” Does research validate our chiropractic philosophy or is the philosophy validated by the logic of its deductive reasoning and the authority of the 33 principles? If we need scientific research for ourselves or others in order to validate chiropractic, is it possible to do that and … Read more

Changing the World

“changing the world” seems to be the objective of many and varied groups today. Religious and pseudo-religious groups emphasize that the changes are necessary in the individual and in doing that they can affect a change in the world as a whole (even if that individual change comes by threat of death). The environmentalists believe … Read more

Agathos And Kalos

The ancient Greeks created two words for that which we might describe as beauty, something that is good and valuable. Agathos was the first term that was created. It meant good or beautiful of intrinsic value. It referred to the inner beauty or value of a person or object. The word kalos was later created … Read more