As a profession, we do not want medical doctors adjusting vertebral subluxations but we want to treat disease.Why is it medicine can be so adamant that a displaced (herniated) disc can impinge upon the cord and spinal nerves and cause all kinds of problems affecting the function of the nerve system? They are so confident … Read more
Recently I had an opportunity to talk to a group of about 100 students at a chiropractic college, one that is not known for being straight, either traditional or objective. This particular group was a class whose instructor was gracious enough to give me two hours of her class time. Because the class had … Read more
The problem is not that our profession is unable to agree on a definition of chiropractic. The problem is that we have failed to define the practice of medicine or to accept how medicine defines itself. Most chiropractors define medicine as “anything I choose not to do.”
[Excerpt from another soon-to-be-published book on Chiropractic Philosophy] The title presents an excellent question, one that has been the topic of considerable discussion among the straight community. First, we need to get the legal aspects out of the way. The laws of most states have defined chiropractic as a health profession. So it is. Further, … Read more
The other attack on straight chiropractic is that, “It is dangerous because they do not diagnose.” This straw-man attack has been going on for years. The scientists set up the false argument that philosophical chiropractors accept patients to cure all of the diseases and that they do not diagnose and refer out cases, hence they … Read more
Over the years various chiropractic speakers have divided the profession into two groups. The earliest division, of course, was straights and mixers. What you did with your hands determined the group which you belonged. If you put them on the patient’s spine for the purpose of adjusting a vertebra, you were a straight. If you … Read more
One of the greatest breakthroughs in the practice of chiropractic, during its 103-year history, has come about by the decision to define chiropractic by its objective. Up until the early seventies, there were numerous ways to define chiropractic and the arguments regarding what was and was not considered to be chiropractic were constant. With 50 … Read more
In Volume III, No. 3 we published an article concerning the difficulty that the straights have in communicating their philosophy to the mixer element in the profession. We somewhat humorously (at least to us) implied that this inability was because mixers do not understand the English language, have a hearing disorder or are brain damaged. … Read more
“The principles of philosophy cannot be put in words like other studies. Acquaintance with them must come after a long period of instruction and close companionship, then suddenly like a blaze kindled by a leaping spark, knowledge is generated in the soul and sustains itself there.” Plato Dec.3, 2010 December 2010
Must we study and spend hours on the disease of these organs or tissues, all to be discarded when we adjust the cause? Must we study these branches just to “talk intelligently to the patient?” Must we include urinalysis just to continue to travel in dead men’s shoes and follow dead men’s customs? Must we … Read more