We are all born with an innate intelligence that is 100%, making us all equal in that way with regard to biological life (the expression of innate intelligence through matter). We (human beings) all have the liberty (freedom) to choose how we express that biological life and whether we want to pursue temporary (OIBU) happiness … Read more
The only form of chiropractic that can be accepted based upon clinical/rational results is objective straight chiropractic, in part, because of the limitations of its claims. If just one person in all of history got well with or without chiropractic care, that proves the basic tenet of objective chiropractic (that the innate intelligence of the body does the healing). … Read more
A problem with practice member education for non-English speaking people is that we tend to explain chiropractic in a mechanistic model like a hard bone on a soft nerve, using anatomy and physiology concepts, and fail to explain the 4th component/criteria of the vertebral subluxation. That will no more make them lifetime PMs than it … Read more
The purpose of words is to communicate thoughts and ideas. Part of the big idea or one of the big ideas of objective straight chiropractic is that it is not medicine. Chiropractic is unique. Further, as objective straight chiropractors, we endeavor to distance ourselves from the medical/therapeutic model as much as possible. It is the … Read more
Traditional Straight Chiropractic is a term coined to differentiate two groups of chiropractors who both claim to be straight and who both model their type of practice in some way after the philosophy developed by B.J. Palmer. Objective Straight Chiropractic takes the position that throughout the vast and diversified writings of B.J., the overall theme … Read more
(4th Friday Philosophy-a week late) “Informed Consent” is an important and necessary aspect of objective straight chiropractic care, however, we understand the term in a different way than most. Medically speaking, “informed consent” means that even if I do everything correctly, there are some possible negative results, i.e., “Do you understand there are possible negative … Read more
As the Delaware River winds its way through the mountains along the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border, it forms a gap aptly called the Delaware Water Gap. At a certain point on Interstate 80, one can see the vague profile of a Native American face cut into the mountain by the forces of nature. My kids would look for … Read more
RE:PRACTICE MEMBERS, When the rate of forgetting exceeds the rate of learning, you have lost them.
Because you cannot necessarily measure the difference between being subluxated and being unsubluxated does not decrease that difference. The only question we must ask and answer: “Is that difference significant?” Perhaps we have not scientifically established that yet or that we ever will. But do you want to take the chance that it is?
A response is the action of the innate intelligence of the body in continuing the adaptive process. Example: A “working muscle” according to Advanced Muscle Palpation is a response as opposed to a spastic muscle which may be a reaction, a response or both (at different times). A reaction is the result of matter not … Read more