Pivot Review Archives

Wish I Said That

The government wants to pass laws controlling what we eat, supplements, our water, etc. How come they think it’s okay to control our digestive system but we should not pass laws regarding a woman’s reproductive system? Rush Limbaugh  June 30, 2010

A Thot

The pendulum of my granfather clock is moving in response to the gravitational pull on the weights. An intelligence designed the clock so that the universal forces are adapted for constructive purposes. It also necessitates an intelligence to keep it going (raising the weight every week).   June 30, 2010

Settling for Less

It is amazing how little we are satisfied with in chiropractic. I once showed a video to a group of straight chiropractic students. The first part was a panel discussion on chiropractic by a group of mixers. It was an absolutely poor explanation of chiropractic. The second part was a better explanation of chiropractic. It … Read more

Professional Education

A professional education should have more applicable and practical teaching than superfluos. Is chiropractic professional on that basis? Much of our education is never used..even for mixers. Conversely much of medicine is professional. When we brag that our students learn more neurology, anatomy, and physiology than an md, the question is are we getting unnecessary … Read more

Unity

All chiropractors recognize that there are certain procedures that are not part of the practice of chiropractic. The problem is that only one group of is in agreement as to what they are. The straight chiropractor says that every procedure other than the location, analysis, and correction of vertebral subluxation is not part of the … Read more

A Thought

People should be empowered (but free) to make their own decisions concerning their life, health, and well-being. Our responsibility is to give them sufficient information in order to make intelligent decisions.  May 28,2010

Educating Practice Members

Many people will stop their thought processes rather than go on because going on necessitates shifting from rational thought to faith or from empiricism to reason and they are not accustomed to, comfortable with, or desire to think outside their comfort zone. As a result they never give a concept or a subject “further thought”. … Read more

Conflicts in Philosophy

Chiropractic maintains that we cannot know with any certainity those things that science in general and medicine in particular claim we can know (normal b.p., heartrate, etc.) . Conversely, we maintain that we can know with certainity those things that science claims we cannot know (absolutes, innate/universal intelligence, etc.).   April 30, 2010