Dr. Reggie Gold DC – The Third Paradigm
3 possible paradigms of chiropractic thinking
Dr. Reggie Gold DC – The Third Paradigm
Paradigm 1: holds that chiropractic cures all disease.
This paradigm is evident in an advertisement which B.J. and D.D. Palmer ran in the Davenport Times in 1902, which proclaimed, "You have no right to be sick when chiropractic cures all disease.
"The power that made the body heals the body." - While it is true that the only power that heals the body is the power that made it, sometimes even that is not enough. Some people are beyond healing.
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Chiropractic gets sick people well" => “Chiropractic sometimes gets sick people well” - but still only offer chiropractic care to sick people and deny it to those who are not yet sick by clinical or laboratory symptoms.
Paradigm 2: only some sick people get better when their vertebral subluxations are corrected.
Majority of chiropractors.
Because of the nature of their disease, or the advanced stages of it, others require medical intervention or adjunctive therapy.
All treatment or referral decisions <= are dependent upon diagnosis. Diagnosis is the one great area of weakness in this practice paradigm.
How is it possible for chiropractors to think they are competent to diagnose for purposes of referral. When they :-
Receive much less diagnostic training than MD's (medical doctors);
Denied by law the use of all diagnostic methods that invade the body chemically or surgically;
Generally learn diagnosis out of textbooks without ever seeing cases of the diseases they purport to identify
Nothing is more dangerous than incompetent diagnosis.
Instead of practicing chiropractic, the Paradigm 2 chiropractor does a medical diagnostic exam, followed by a medical report of findings in which the DC claims to have identified the cause of the problem.
And with such blithe & dangerous comments as, "We do not treat the symptom, we correct the cause," the DC proceeds to offer treatment, which delays medical care for what may be a life-threatening medical emergency.
While thousands of people go to chiropractors every day, millions more stay subluxated because they have no symptoms.
Paradigm 1 is stupid, and Paradigm 2 is dangerous.
Paradigm 3: people with vertebral subluxations would be better off without them.
A paradigm that thousands of chiropractors practice on their families, yet neglect to offer the public.
Vertebral subluxation => change in Function
Vertebral subluxation is a cause of disharmony to this beautiful thing we call Life.
Nervous System = coordinating system whereby the countless billions of body cells interact in harmony to express mind, body, spirit, emotion, artistic talent, speed, stamina, coordination, and family relations.
It has no disease treatment at all.
Non-therapeutic in its intent and practice.
The presence or absence of disease is irrelevant.
Symptoms are the last stages of malfunction, not the first.
Chiropractic holds that a vertebral subluxation, by its very existence,
inhibits the body's ability to fully express its inherent potential.
Paradigms 1 and 2 are about backaches; Paradigm 3 is about life.
We can choose to conform to the errors of the past, or we can step proudly to the forefront and lead the way into the future.
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