LifeLines Category: Chiropractic Philosophy
Balancing the Mechanism and Vitalism in Life
There has always been a discussion between the mechanistic and vitalistic views in the domain of psychology. In the mechanistic view, processes occur in a specific and determined sequence. The vitalis...
The Barriers We Create
Every day on my morning commute, I look out the window of my car and I’m struck by two emotions: terror and wonder. It terrifies me to think that the only thing separating me, hurdling 80 mph down the...
Both, And: An Explained Model
Within our chiropractic community, there is a great deal of talk about tapping into the abundance of the universe. We refer to the law of abundance as it relates to bringing our ideal patients into ou...
The Relationship between Core Stability and Chiropractic
Core Stability has been a popular phrase that is used by a multitude of professions for decades. Though many of these professions teach the importance of a stable core, there has been a discrepancy in...
Living in Glass Boxes
What exactly does it mean to be human? Is it because we have a soul? Is it because we are able to critically think and problem-solve? Or maybe it is because we can understand abstract concepts? Althou...
Emotions and the Subluxation
One of my first experiences with chiropractic came at age 12 when I sought care for scoliosis that was diagnosed during a school physical. This happened amid a change from my local public elementary s...
‘Subluxation’ in chiropractic research: The Great Semantic Debate
Most people within the chiropractic profession are aware of a divide that exists among us between those who are mechanists seeking to expand evidence-based practice and those who are vitalists seeking...
The crisis of mental health
There is no doubt that research in chiropractic has exploded over the last decade, from technique-specific benefits such as chiropractic biophysics and upper-cervical-specific techniques, to the scien...