Re: Re: Can anti-VSC & pro-VSC come together?

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, I believe I have a good understanding of chiropractic philosophy. Our philosophy should be a guiding belief which leads us to correct scientific inquiry. Many DCs have failed to do this, in my opinion. They either throw out the philosophy and try to just be scientific OR they fully embrace the philosophy and ignore science. Both extremes are a problem. Science without an underlying guiding philosophy is like a ship without a rudder - you're floating, but don't know where you'll end up. Philosophy without the application of science is like a rudder without a ship - you have an idea where you want to go, but are unable to even float.I see many of the pro-VSC chiropractors hanging on to philosophical theory and dogma and failing to apply science to their care.On the other hand, I see the anti-VSC chiropractors throwing out the philosophy and dogma and trying to be scientific, but heading down the wrong road because they aren't asking the right questions. It's maddening either way!Looking at all the different techniques and groups in chiropractic, I think CBP has done the best job in chiropractic at joining the science with the philosophy. They are very scientific, but they also are very philosophically-based. They take a concept like VSC and define it in real, measurable terms that match with current science and biomechanics. In fact, I remember Don on didn't even like the whole VSC concept. He thought it was too complex and redundant. He thought subluxation should be defined simply as any vertebral misalignment away from normal. All the "-ologies" would then emanate from the misaligned vertebrae. Of course, coming up with a very good scientific definition of subluxation which is easily understood and accepted by other scientists in the field of spinal biomechanics, was NOT good enough for the chiropractic profession. on's simple definition of subluxation was not accepted by the profession. Too much dogma, not enough science. The problem of defining and agreeing on what a subluxation is and what it looks like and how it is fixed, is the #1 reason our profession is struggling, IMHO. I can't blame the anti-VSC camp for wanting to just throw the whole concept out the window and focus on treating back pain. Very frustrating! Jamey Dyson, DC, CCWP

Dr. Dyson, Your interest in seeing a Chiropractic paradigm of "intelectual" unity vis a vis proVSC and antiVSC is most commendable.

When I entered chiropractic school in 1972 (40 years ago), among the required texts was:

"TEXT-BOOK OF THE SCIENCE, ART, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CHIROPRACTIC FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTIONERS" by D.D. Palmer -The One Who Discovered The Basic Principle Of Chiropractic, Developed Its Philosopy, Originated And Founded The Science And Art Of Correcting Abnormal Functions By Hand Adjusting, Using The Vertebral Processes As Levers

FOUNDED ON TONE

Portland, Oregon

Portland Printing House Company

[1910]

In the Preface to the Facsimile, D.D. Palmer's grandson, D. Palmer, writes:

"Of all the great truths pertaining to the welfare of humanity, none is more radiant with lasting promise than Palmer's Philosopy. It is my fervent wish that this edition will help to UNIFY and STRENGHEN our profession, as well as perpetuate my grandfather's brilliant and original study of the cause and mystery of disease."

"I believe this book will be a treasured and INSPIRING memory, reminding us of the marvelous heritage that lies within our hands."

January, 1966 D. Palmer

(emphasis mine)

The heading at the top of page 8 of this text reads: "The Science, Art, and Philosophy of Chiropractic"

The 1st paragraph under that heading reads: "Science is knowledge reduced to law and embodied in a system. Art relates to something to be done. Science teaches us to know and art to do. The philosophy of a science is the undertanding of its principles."

Answer for yourself, doctors of chiropractic (collegues),what are the principles of chiropractic?

Yours for the thot. john partmann, dc

January, 1966

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Hey Guys, All of that thought is good ... it is not that the concept should be thrown out, it is that focusing on getting people healthy is the object. Our 'way' with chronic disease does more to dispell disease-oriented physiology than pharmaceuticals and surgical approaches. The philosphy is OUR philosophy and isn't intended to be 'thrown' at the public, just used amongst ourselves for our own personal definitions. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, our business and contribution to the public is facillitation of their health, not managment of their disease; our contribution is facillitation toward a pain-free existence, not managment of their disease. THAT is all the philosophy the public is intested in. Sunny Sunny Kierstyn, RN DC Fibromyalgia Care Center of Oregon 2677 Willakenzie Road, 7CEugene, Oregon, 97401541- 654-0850; Fx; 541- 654-0834www.drsunnykierstyn.com CC: oregondcs To: docpartmanndc@...From: drjdyson1@...Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:02:51 -0700Subject: Re: Re: Can anti-VSC & pro-VSC come together?

, I believe I have a good understanding of chiropractic philosophy. Our philosophy should be a guiding belief which leads us to correct scientific inquiry. Many DCs have failed to do this, in my opinion. They either throw out the philosophy and try to just be scientific OR they fully embrace the philosophy and ignore science. Both extremes are a problem. Science without an underlying guiding philosophy is like a ship without a rudder - you're floating, but don't know where you'll end up. Philosophy without the application of science is like a rudder without a ship - you have an idea where you want to go, but are unable to even float.I see many of the pro-VSC chiropractors hanging on to philosophical theory and dogma and failing to apply science to their care.On the other hand, I see the anti-VSC chiropractors throwing out the philosophy and dogma and trying to be scientific, but heading down the wrong road because they aren't asking the right questions. It's maddening either way!Looking at all the different techniques and groups in chiropractic, I think CBP has done the best job in chiropractic at joining the science with the philosophy. They are very scientific, but they also are very philosophically-based. They take a concept like VSC and define it in real, measurable terms that match with current science and biomechanics. In fact, I remember Don on didn't even like the whole VSC concept. He thought it was too complex and redundant. He thought subluxation should be defined simply as any vertebral misalignment away from normal. All the "-ologies" would then emanate from the misaligned vertebrae. Of course, coming up with a very good scientific definition of subluxation which is easily understood and accepted by other scientists in the field of spinal biomechanics, was NOT good enough for the chiropractic profession. on's simple definition of subluxation was not accepted by the profession. Too much dogma, not enough science. The problem of defining and agreeing on what a subluxation is and what it looks like and how it is fixed, is the #1 reason our profession is struggling, IMHO. I can't blame the anti-VSC camp for wanting to just throw the whole concept out the window and focus on treating back pain. Very frustrating! Jamey Dyson, DC, CCWP

Dr. Dyson, Your interest in seeing a Chiropractic paradigm of "intelectual" unity vis a vis proVSC and antiVSC is most commendable.

When I entered chiropractic school in 1972 (40 years ago), among the required texts was:

"TEXT-BOOK OF THE SCIENCE, ART, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CHIROPRACTIC FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTIONERS" by D.D. Palmer -The One Who Discovered The Basic Principle Of Chiropractic, Developed Its Philosopy, Originated And Founded The Science And Art Of Correcting Abnormal Functions By Hand Adjusting, Using The Vertebral Processes As Levers

FOUNDED ON TONE

Portland, Oregon

Portland Printing House Company

[1910]

In the Preface to the Facsimile, D.D. Palmer's grandson, D. Palmer, writes:

"Of all the great truths pertaining to the welfare of humanity, none is more radiant with lasting promise than Palmer's Philosopy. It is my fervent wish that this edition will help to UNIFY and STRENGHEN our profession, as well as perpetuate my grandfather's brilliant and original study of the cause and mystery of disease."

"I believe this book will be a treasured and INSPIRING memory, reminding us of the marvelous heritage that lies within our hands."

January, 1966 D. Palmer

(emphasis mine)

The heading at the top of page 8 of this text reads: "The Science, Art, and Philosophy of Chiropractic"

The 1st paragraph under that heading reads: "Science is knowledge reduced to law and embodied in a system. Art relates to something to be done. Science teaches us to know and art to do. The philosophy of a science is the undertanding of its principles."

Answer for yourself, doctors of chiropractic (collegues),what are the principles of chiropractic?

Yours for the thot. john partmann, dc

January, 1966

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Thank you, Dr. Dyson, for your sincerity, or depth of feeling, about your practice, and in turn the profession. Finally, it's our affection for patients, for all of humanity, for all sentient creatures, that allows Tone to become manifest and available. Much of what the founders wrote about Tone is still unavailable to science. For example, "Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic. Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body." (DD Palmer) Science is catching-up. Quantum Physics now informs us that one's perceived reality is a potentiality dependent upon one's consciousness. That potentiality is a non-material ethereality - "spirit," if you will - that animates and manifests materiality. Although Einstein agreed that the theory worked perfectly, he wasn't happy that it denied a reality of things when they were not being observed: "(I can't accept quantum mechanics because) "I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it." This was his way of saying that there is a larger consciousness than just the individual's, as critical as the individual consciousness is to his/her well-being. This is consistent with DD saying, "That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe." Today, science still denies that larger intelligence, or spirit, underlying materiality.Everything in life is either progressing in the moment or regressing; there is no lasting stasis, only an approaching toward or a distancing from an equilibrium of more perfect manifestation. If we let today's science alone define the state of reality, we are regressing from the innate intelligence which fills the universe. Consider Dr. Les Feinberg's Neuromodulation. He is showing science that the patient's larger consciousness (innate) can be accessed for the patient's self-healing; that universal intelligence can recognize a more perfect material manifestation, even though the individual patient is not conscious of the source of it's imperfection. What is that allows this self-healing? Is it Dr. Feinberg's touch of muscle testing? Is it the diagnostic questions asked of the patient? Is it the intentionality of a powerful healer, without reproducibility by others? Clearly, it is none of these elements alone. Dare we say that it is the successful application of the arc of benevolence of innate intelligence upon the individual?Consider also the ancient human discipline, the "Human Science," of yoga and meditation. They have a different language than Drs. Palmer. Instead of Tone, they speak of The Flow. It is within each individual's human potential to be aware of their own unique DNA-empowered tone via sensate self consciousness. Student of human transformation, ph , observes, "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." (Hero's Journey) Innate is within each of us, waiting to be discovered for our self-healing; we need only to focus deeply enough to find it. It is in the pulse of our heart in our fingertips, vibrating within the DNA in every cell of our body, within our ears attuning us to it's pulsing, within the vibration of our voice synching with the larger Flow. While Tone suggests a vibration, The Flow sets that vibration in motion, a dynamic to be experienced moment-to-moment. Inhale deeply and hold that breath for ten seconds, then inhale again and create internal tension as if in valsalva for another five seconds, then exhale very slowly through the nostrils. Can you hear The Flow? Can you feel it coursing through your body? The mind must be able to be focused to experience it; and the body must be free of it's inner rigidities in order for Nature's healing to become manifest. Both the training of the mind and the loosening of one's inner rigidities takes time and practice of deep relaxation and simple movements around postures softly aligned in gravity. It also requires manual therapies that can sense these inner rigidities and soften them so that Nature's universal healing powers may vibrate them.Here are two examples of chiropractic's potentials, one passive and one active, that give direction to the chiropractic interface between philosophy and application. If we limit ourselves to an anti- or pro-VSC analysis, we fall victim to what is already scientifically known. It's not in the present light of collective knowledge that the profession is today being called by it's visionary founders and contemporary sages, but to the emerging light beyond the campfire of scientific illumination alone. Science will follow where that light manifests. Finally, it is your sincerity to be a source of well-being to everyone that will lead the profession into a bright future. Who will become the next example of such spirit manifesting reality within and about us? Cheers, Sears, DC, IAYT1218 NW 21st AvePortland, Oregon 97209

, I believe I have a good understanding of chiropractic philosophy. Our philosophy should be a guiding belief which leads us to correct scientific inquiry. Many DCs have failed to do this, in my opinion. They either throw out the philosophy and try to just be scientific OR they fully embrace the philosophy and ignore science. Both extremes are a problem. Science without an underlying guiding philosophy is like a ship without a rudder - you're floating, but don't know where you'll end up. Philosophy without the application of science is like a rudder without a ship - you have an idea where you want to go, but are unable to even float.I see many of the pro-VSC chiropractors hanging on to philosophical theory and dogma and failing to apply science to their care.On the other hand, I see the anti-VSC chiropractors throwing out the philosophy and dogma

and trying to be scientific, but heading down the wrong road because they aren't asking the right questions. It's maddening either way!Looking at all the different techniques and groups in chiropractic, I think CBP has done the best job in chiropractic at joining the science with the philosophy. They are very scientific, but they also are very philosophically-based. They take a concept like VSC and define it in real, measurable terms that match with current science and biomechanics. In fact, I remember Don on didn't even like the whole VSC concept. He thought it was too complex and redundant. He thought subluxation should be defined simply as any vertebral misalignment away from normal. All the "-ologies" would then emanate from the misaligned vertebrae. Of course, coming up with a very good scientific definition of subluxation which is easily understood and accepted by other

scientists in the field of spinal biomechanics, was NOT good enough for the chiropractic profession. on's simple definition of subluxation was not accepted by the profession. Too much dogma, not enough science. The problem of defining and agreeing on what a subluxation is and what it looks like and how it is fixed, is the #1 reason our profession is struggling, IMHO. I can't blame the anti-VSC camp for wanting to just throw the whole concept out the window and focus on treating back pain. Very frustrating! Jamey Dyson, DC, CCWP

Dr. Dyson, Your interest in seeing a Chiropractic paradigm of "intelectual" unity vis a vis proVSC and antiVSC is most commendable.

When I entered chiropractic school in 1972 (40 years ago), among the required texts was:

"TEXT-BOOK OF THE SCIENCE, ART, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CHIROPRACTIC FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTIONERS" by D.D. Palmer -The One Who Discovered The Basic Principle Of Chiropractic, Developed Its Philosopy, Originated And Founded The Science And Art Of Correcting Abnormal Functions By Hand Adjusting, Using The Vertebral Processes As Levers

FOUNDED ON TONE

Portland, Oregon

Portland Printing House Company

[1910]

In the Preface to the Facsimile, D.D. Palmer's grandson, D. Palmer, writes:

"Of all the great truths pertaining to the welfare of humanity, none is more radiant with lasting promise than Palmer's Philosopy. It is my fervent wish that this edition will help to UNIFY and STRENGHEN our profession, as well as perpetuate my grandfather's brilliant and original study of the cause and mystery of disease."

"I believe this book will be a treasured and INSPIRING memory, reminding us of the marvelous heritage that lies within our hands."

January, 1966 D. Palmer

(emphasis mine)

The heading at the top of page 8 of this text reads: "The Science, Art, and Philosophy of Chiropractic"

The 1st paragraph under that heading reads: "Science is knowledge reduced to law and embodied in a system. Art relates to something to be done. Science teaches us to know and art to do. The philosophy of a science is the undertanding of its principles."

Answer for yourself, doctors of chiropractic (collegues),what are the principles of chiropractic?

Yours for the thot. john partmann, dc

January, 1966

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Sunny, Good enough!, john partmann, dc

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Thanks for the mention of NMT, . NMT is an opportunity for chiropractors to fulfill their potential as healers and perfectly congruent with D.D. and B.J. Palmer’s theory of chiropractic as a tool to optimize the dialog between mind and body. The seminar is well structured and documented. For those who are ready to explore this powerful new approach to healing, the road to skillful and effective application of NMT in your practice is well laid out. I’ll be honest. Not everyone will find that their intellect and disposition are well suited to this study. We D.C.s are trained to believe in a mechanistic model of practice and I have had some attend our seminars and find it interesting but not go on to build and apply these skills. But, for those of you who want reach past current professional barriers into a whole new arena of service, NMT is something to consider. I want to remind you that the next NMT Univeral Care Level A seminar is in Portland at the Red Lion Convention Center on June 29 to July 1. This may be the last opportunity to take the first level NMT seminar before this winter, depending on the outcome of efforts to enroll August and September seminars in India and Italy. Maybe it would be help to understand just how amazing the NMT protocol is if I shared what has been going on recently for me and NMT seminars. It's been a great month for NMT seminars. I was invited to give an NMT Universal Care seminar at the Institutes for Achievement of Human Potential (www.iahp.org ). IAHP was created by physical therapist Glen Doman and educational psychologist Carl Delacato nearly 60 years ago. Located on a beautiful 11 acre wooded campus in the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia, the grounds are covered with beautiful gardens, lawns, and trees over 100 years old with beautiful stone buildings from the late 1800s. IAHP was lead for many years by Glen, now 93, who still lectures at their programs. His daughter Janet has headed the Institutes in recent years and with her brother and an incredibly gifted and committed staff produce miracles and fulfill the Institutes' mission to develop the potential of brain injured children. These are children who have sustained neurological injury. Some of them have genetic disorders that compromise development, some from anoxia during delivery as a result of cord strangulation or other causes, some from infection such as meningitis. These are what were and are still considered " throw away " kids; so compromised that doctors often recommend warehousing them in care facilities until they die with no attempt to educate or help develop them. These kids are neurologically blind or deaf. They have little motor control and don't walk or crawl. They are totally shut in to themselves by their injuries. To the outside world they are typically seen as almost inanimate. The brilliance of the Doman method is that he recognized that the mind and spirit of these kids was still intact and that what they needed was an effective protocol to capitalize on the neuroplasticity of the human brain and its ability to grow and rewire itself to compensate for injury by moving function to alternative areas of the brain. Under the care and training of the Institutes incredible staff and the ongoing home care, training, and education these kids learn to crawl and walk. Neurologically blind and deaf kids learn to see and hear and the innovative educational methods Doman developed give these kids reading skills at the high school and college level even earlier than conventional teaching methods have neurotypical kids reading Doctor Seuss. It is something that has to be seen to be believed, but I have worked with IAHP kids for years and seen this for myself. One hallmark of the Institutes is that they have never held to conventional wisdom and have guided kids and their families away from dangerous pharmaceuticals and other medical procedures while combining the best of allopathic and complementary health care. Real world performance and results, and the safety of their kids is the only criteria. Doman's core work is integrated with nutritional support, organic foods, detoxification, and the best of emerging techniques, often from the chiropractic world. Applied Kinesiology has been of great help and the much credit is given to Walter Schmitt, D.C. for the work he has shared with them. Doman's wisdom was to create a program that not only trains the kids but trains the parents and tasks them with achievement goals and a curriculum that although demanding truly develops the human potential of children whose bodies would have atrophied and whose minds would continue to have been locked in behind the barrier of their neurological injuries.The NMT connection to the Institutes goes back to the beginning of NMT when Li Wang, M.D. came to the first NMT seminar in Portland in 2002. Dr. Wang is a brilliant physician from China who has worked at the Institutes for many years and works with their facilities in the U.S., Italy, China, Japan, and Brazil. Dr. Wang leads their program for physiological excellence. One of the big issues with the kids that come to the institutes is that nearly all suffer from immunological issues, no doubt correlated to their neurological injuries, including food and environmental allergies, infection, toxic flora, and leaky gut. Dr. Wang has searched the world over for safe and effective ways to solve these problems that tax already compromised nervous systems and limit the efficacy of the Institute's unique training and education programs. Dr. Wang has used NMT as a key component of the care she provides and with great results. Food and environmental allergies, chemical hypersensitivities, muscle weakness, imbalance, and pain, infections, and other issues resolve quickly and durably with NMT and then these injured children can better utilize the Institutes programs to develop their full potential.At the seminar we had many of the Institutes medical physicians, therapists, and children's advocates, chiropractors associated with the Institutes, as well as parents of the children. It was a terrific crowd of intelligent and highly motivated people who followed the NMT curriculum well and will be reinforcing their NMT training with study and practice at home to be able to produce the kind of incredible results they saw at the seminar. Incredible results there were. One example is a young boy, six years old and born with Chromosome 22 Syndrome. You probably have not heard of it. There are only about 700 cases worldwide. This condition is the result of a deletion on chromosome 22. These children don't develop muscle control, strength, or muscle mass and are typically condemned to a life of being bedridden and degenerating until infection or other misfortune takes them. With the Institutes training and the commitment of his parents who work with him daily, he walks, feeds himself, is gaining speech, and reads at advanced high school level. One problem he has is that he is anaphylactic to 32 major foods, all of which test positive on serum allergy tests. This makes it an additional challenge for his mother to give him adequate nutrition. She showed us pictures of the child minutes after just a bite of yellow beet in which his face, lips, and eyes were badly swollen from anaphylaxis. Not only that but his behavior, sleep, bowel control, and mental processing deteriorates. His mother brought him to the first day of the seminar in Philadelphia. I treated him once with the NMT Allergy and Adverse Inflammation Pathway. The functional measurements I checked with the NMT protocol showed him to be highly reactive to many foods and environmentals. I applied the AAIP and immediately tested him functionally for reactivity to carrot, potato, and rice that his mother had brought and which previously produced anaphylaxis. Assured by post NMT session testing metrics which showed him to be near the bottom of our NMT reactivity scales, and the fact that his mom had brought his meds in case there was a reaction, I did actual exposure testing by smell and skin testing and he showed no reactivity. His mom gave him all three foods and although she watched him like a hawk for the next 15 minutes, there was absolutely no reaction. On his return to the seminar on the third day I rechecked him and he tested at the bottom of the NMT evaluation scales. His mother brought with her full serving size portions of yellow beets, rice, and several other " deadly " foods. The boy wolfed them down with gusto. He had absolutely no response. Another NMT subject was a neurosurgeon who had very severe psoriasis of long duration who described that he always has tremendous itching and burning of his legs. Immediately after one NMT session utilizing three NMT pathways he had 10% decrease in itching and within two days and no further NMT work his itching was decreased by 50%. He will follow up with remote NMT session to fully resolve this maddening condition.One of the Institutes' physical excellence program trainers in attendance at the seminar was injured two years ago in a horse riding accident. She is a short woman was mounting a tall horse when it abruptly charged off as she was trying to swing her leg over the saddle. Her right hip was badly sprained. She has had two years of every type of therapy imaginable with no change. I demonstrated an NMT " quick fix " and in 90 seconds decreased her pain from seven or eight out of ten to two. The next day she was at a three and I did a complete NMT Sensory-Motor Pathway with the introduction of functional challenges and elements to address the emotional component of her injury and she was completely pain free with full restoration of range of motion. Several days later only a tiny residual of the pain remained and she is now able to run and do other activities that had been impossible for two years.Another child I worked with at the Institutes had arrived with his family from the Ukraine. When Dr. Wang informed them that the originator of NMT was going to be at the Institutes for the week, they were eager to have me see the child. Within hours of arrival, I evaluated the brain injured boy. He had been a student of the Institutes program and had achieved great success. The parents showed me pictures of him running and jumping on a trampoline, which he would do for hours at a time. His chart showed a reading list with books like Gliek's " Genius " and other advanced high school and college level reading. The parents had discontinued the Institutes program for a year and a half and during that time a neurological infection and some other misfortunes had produced shocking deterioration. The child could not stand, crawl, or control his head movements, and he was having 20 or more seizures per day. He was able to sleep only for short durations. My initial NMT evaluation demonstrated occult infection, allergies, and functional neurological imbalances. I did two sessions for the child using the NMT Allergy and Adverse Inflammation Pathway, the Immune System Optimization Pathway to train the body to eliminate self-targeting immune cells, the Infectious Agent and Toxic Flora Pathway to resolve his leaky gut, and the Neurological Balance and Reorganization Pathway to reallocate neurological resources and eliminate inappropriate facilitation and inhibition of neurological processing in various brain areas. His father just emailed me with the stunning news that in the following four days he had two days with one seizure, two days with no seizures, and had slept through the night until ten o'clock in the morning. Truly miraculous results with NMT. He will follow up with remote NMT sessions to complete his recovery.Another Institutes child was a young boy who had come with his parents from Paraguay. He had suffered meningitis and his body was quite rigid. He had food allergies and gut problems. His face and back were covered with eczema. I worked with NMT pathways to address occult infection, allergy, and neuroimmune regulation and when I saw him two days later the eczema was gone and his face was clear.I worked with all the members on one family whose nine year old son had Down's Syndrome. Although he has learned to read well and has good speaking and musical skills after years of work with the Institutes staff and daily training periods with his amazingly dedicated parents, the boy has food sensitivities and attention problems. After only two NMT sessions his father reports his alertness is improved and he is self-starting activities in a way that he hasn't before. The father himself has been anaphylactic to shrimp for many years. After one NMT Allergy and Adverse Inflammation Pathway he ate shrimp with no reaction whatsoever. The boy's mother, like so many mothers of these brain injured kids is never able to really rest. When they sleep it is not deep as every night they have to be vigilant, and these parents as couples seldom or never get a weekend to themselves. This mom had complaints of anxiety, stress, hypersensitivity to sounds and physical touch - totally stressed out - and her neck and shoulders were always in a state of pain and tension. I demonstrated the NMT Affective States Pathway with her at the seminar, our NMT approach to pathophysiologically anchored emotions. She experienced an immediate resolution of her neck and shoulder girdle pain and tension. Her husband emailed me a few days after the seminar to tell me that she is much more relaxed and at ease and her physical complaints are well resolved. We will do remote NMT to more completely and durably resolve her problems, not a PTSD, but an " ongoing traumatic stress disorder " . Both mom and dad participated in the full seminar and now as they continue to study and practice their NMT skills will be able to help each other and their child; an investment that will pay dividends for the rest of their lives.Ask any medical allergist and they will tell you that curing anaphylactic allergy is impossible. You can suppress symptoms with steroids and other medications. You can try to avoid the allergic trigger, but the idea of curing anaphylactic allergies is a dangerous fantasy. Four different patients - just in this past week at the Institutes - were rendered non-reactive to previous food triggers of anaphylaxis. Another example, one of the Institutes' trainer advocates of brain injured kids has been anaphylactic to all peppers since childhood. At the seminar I demonstrated the NMT Allergy and Adverse Inflammation Pathway with her and immediately after the session tested her for safety and then had her eat bell peppers. With her Epi-Pen clutched in her hand she waited for an anaphylactic reaction that never came. Throughout the following week I encouraged her to eat peppers every day and by the end of the week she was convinced that she had been cured. By the way, about a year ago this same woman was diagnosed with acute and violent onset of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis with swelling of the throat, pain, and fatigue. She was medically diagnosed by physical examination and laboratory studies and medication was prescribed, which she refused. She contacted me and she began a program of remote NMT work. No other treatment of any kind was done. Within months her labs returned to normal, she was symptom free, and has remained symptom free with normal labs since. Not only is NMT making the impossible possible, but nearly as predictable as the sunrise. I am now at close to 80 cases in which I have brought subjects on stage at NMT seminars and applied the NMT Allergy and Adverse Inflammation Pathway and in not a single case has there been an anaphylactic reaction. I've had follow up reports from some of them for up to a year and a half post NMT telling me that their symptoms have never returned. As the week at the Institutes drew to a close I reluctantly left for the next weekend seminar in New Jersey. Dr. Wang made homemade dim sum lunch for me and I had the pleasure of enjoying that with several of the Institutes staff and management. We discussed coming back this Fall for two more seminars at the Institutes. This recognition of NMT and the decision to make NMT a keystone piece of the Institutes program will do much to advance the mission of the Institutes for Achievement of Human Potential, and it will do much to bring the miracle of NMT to the attention of health care practitioners who either have not heard of NMT or know so little about it that they can't distinguish it from the rest of the pack of complementary medicine approaches. I look forward to working with the Institutes as they continue to grow and evolve their innovative approach to help brain injured people recover and truly achieve their full human potential.Two cases I worked with in demonstrations at the New Jersey seminar should be mentioned. The first is a chiropractor and long time NMT practitioner in his mid 50s. He is quite fit and athletic. In November 2011 he was walking across pavement to his office carrying three cases of equipment. There was black ice and he fell with a crash onto his left rib cage, the weight of the heavy baggage pulling him even harder toward the concrete. Stunned, he collected himself and got up and within minutes was in a lot of pain. He doesn't recall hitting his head. It has been seven or eight months now and no amount of chiropractic care or other help has made a difference. Complaints include strong and constant pain and stiffness in the low back, dorsal, cervical, rib cage, and shoulder girdles, and headaches. On evaluation, all divisions of the rotator cuff, lower trapezius, latissimus dorsi, and pectorals were weak bilaterally at 2-3/5. I did one pathway, the NMT Sensory-Motor Pathway. I used the special NMT neuromuscular postural and functional challenges to the indicated areas to produce clear mind-body awareness of the dysfunction. Immediately on concluding the demonstration virtually all symptoms were gone and his spinal range of motion had returned to near normal. All previously weak muscle groups tested at full 5/5 strength with no pain. The rhetorical question I posed is, if this man's injury persisted because of trauma induced neuromuscular confusion, how much manipulation, poking and prodding, how much ultrasound or other physiotherapy, how much stretchy tape stuck to his skin, and how much scarping him with painful fascia release tools would it take to correct his problem. LOTS! Clearly, " you can't get there from here " is sometimes the answer. What a shame that so many chiropractors, physical therapists, osteopaths, massage therapists, and body workers see every case as an issue of meat and bones. We can demonstrate that in every case of mechanical injury there is an informational component that the NMT model can address better than anything else we are aware of. Does that mean there is no place for mechanical therapies? No, of course not, but it does mean that the best of mechanical therapies are completely inadequate to address the issue of trauma induced neurological disorganization in the way that NMT can resolve in a matter of minutes.Finally, I demonstrated the NMT Affective States Pathway, our primary tool for addressing emotion related mind-body dysfunction. The subject was a young woman who had left an emotionally abusive relationship. She learned recently that he had committed suicide. In spite of the certain knowledge that she had done the right thing by leaving the relationship and knowing intellectually that his instability and emotional problems had been his undoing, she was devastated by depression, fatigue, guilt, grief, and anxiety. She was really miserable. As we went through the ASP protocol with her, she felt the emotional pain well up and then disappear. By the time we finished she was relaxed, could think about and speak about what happened in a peaceful way and she felt like she had her life back. What emotional therapy could produce such profound and instantaneous relief? I hope some of my Oregon colleagues will consider the coming NMT Universal Care Level A seminar in Portland and opening the door to new possibilities to help your patients heal. S. Feinberg, D.C. From: oregondcs [mailto:oregondcs ] On Behalf Of SearsSent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:16 AMTo: Jamey DysonCc: Partmann; oregondcs Subject: Re: Re: Can anti-VSC & pro-VSC come together? Thank you, Dr. Dyson, for your sincerity, or depth of feeling, about your practice, and in turn the profession. Finally, it's our affection for patients, for all of humanity, for all sentient creatures, that allows Tone to become manifest and available. Much of what the founders wrote about Tone is still unavailable to science. For example, " Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic. Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body. " (DD Palmer) Science is catching-up. Quantum Physics now informs us that one's perceived reality is a potentiality dependent upon one's consciousness. That potentiality is a non-material ethereality - " spirit, " if you will - that animates and manifests materiality. Although Einstein agreed that the theory worked perfect ly, he wasn't happy that it denied a reality of things when they were not being observed: " (I can't accept quantum mechanics because) " I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it. " This was his way of saying that there is a larger consciousness than just the individual's, as critical as the individual consciousness is to his/her well-being. This is consistent with DD saying, " That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe. " Today, science still denies that larger intelligence, or spirit, underlying materiality. Everything in life is either progressing in the moment or regressing; there is no lasting stasis, only an approaching toward or a distancing from an equilibrium of more perfect manifestation. If we let today's science alone define the state of reality, we are regressing from the innate intelligence which fills the universe. Consi der Dr. Les Feinberg's Neuromodulation. He is showing science that the patient's larger consciousness (innate) can be accessed for the patient's self-healing; that universal intelligence can recognize a more perfect material manifestation, even though the individual patient is not conscious of the source of it's imperfection. What is that allows this self-healing? Is it Dr. Feinberg's touch of muscle testing? Is it the diagnostic questions asked of the patient? Is it the intentionality of a powerful healer, without reproducibility by others? Clearly, it is none of these elements alone. Dare we say that it is the successful application of the arc of benevolence of innate intelligence upon the individual? Consider also the ancient human discipline, the " Human Science, " of yoga and meditation. They have a different language than Drs. Palmer. Instead of Tone, they speak of The Flow. It is within each individual's human potential to be aware of their own unique DNA-empowered tone via sensate self consciousness. Student of human transformation, ph , observes, " The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. " (Hero's Journey) Innate is within each of us, waiting to be discovered for our self-healing; we need only to focus deeply enough to find it. It is in the pulse of our heart in our fingertips, vibrating within the DNA in every cell of our body, within our ears attuning us to it's pulsing, within the vibration of our voice synching with the larger Flow. While Tone suggests a vibration, The Flow sets that vibration in motion, a dynamic to be experienced moment-to-moment. Inhale deeply and hold that breath for ten seconds, then inhale again and create internal tension as if in valsalva for another five seconds, then exhale very slowly through the nostrils. & nb sp;Can you hear The Flow? Can you feel it coursing through your body? The mind must be able to be focused to experience it; and the body must be free of it's inner rigidities in order for Nature's healing to become manifest. Both the training of the mind and the loosening of one's inner rigidities takes time and practice of deep relaxation and simple movements around postures softly aligned in gravity. It also requires manual therapies that can sense these inner rigidities and soften them so that Nature's universal healing powers may vibrate them. Here are two examples of chiropractic's potentials, one passive and one active, that give direction to the chiropractic interface between philosophy and application. If we limit ourselves to an anti- or pro-VSC analysis, we fall victim to what is already scientifically known. It's not in the present light of collective knowledge that the profession is today being called b y it's visionary founders and contemporary sages, but to the emerging light beyond the campfire of scientific illumination alone. Science will follow where that light manifests. Finally, it is your sincerity to be a source of well-being to everyone that will lead the profession into a bright future. Who will become the next example of such spirit manifesting reality within and about us? Cheers, Sears, DC, IAYT1218 NW 21st AvePortland, Oregon 97209 , I believe I have a good understanding of chiropractic philosophy. Our philosophy should be a guiding belief which leads us to correct scientific inquiry. Many DCs have failed to do this, in my opinion. They either throw out the philosophy and try to just be scientific OR they fully embrace the philosophy and ignore science. Both extremes are a problem. Science without an underlying guiding philosophy is like a ship without a rudder - you're floating, but don't know where you'll end up. Philosophy without the application of science is like a rudder without a ship - you have an idea where you want to go, but are unable to even float. I see many of the pro-VSC chiropractors hanging on to philosophical theory and dogma and failing to apply science to their care.On the other hand, I see the anti-VSC chiropractors throwing out the philosophy and dogma and trying to be scientific, but heading down the wrong road because they aren't asking the right questions. It's maddening either way! Looking at all the different techniques and groups in chiropractic, I think CBP has done the best job in chiropractic at joining the science with the philosophy. They are very scientific, but they also are very philosophically-based. They take a concept like VSC and define it in real, measurable terms that match with current science and biomechanics. In fact, I remember Don on didn't even like the whole VSC concept. He thought it was too complex and redundant. He thought subluxation should be defined simply as any vertebral misalignment away from normal. All the " -ologies " would then emanate from the misaligned vertebrae. Of course, coming up with a very good scientific definition of subluxation which is easily understood and accepted by o ther scientists in the field of spinal biomechanics, was NOT good enough for the chiropractic profession. on's simple definition of subluxation was not accepted by the profession. Too much dogma, not enough science. The problem of defining and agreeing on what a subluxation is and what it looks like and how it is fixed, is the #1 reason our profession is struggling, IMHO. I can't blame the anti-VSC camp for wanting to just throw the whole concept out the window and focus on treating back pain. Very frustrating! Jamey Dyson, DC, CCWP Dr. Dyson, Your interest in seeing a Chiropractic paradigm of " intelectual " unity vis a vis proVSC and antiVSC is most commendable.When I entered chiropractic school in 1972 (40 years ago), among the required texts was: " TEXT-BOOK OF THE SCIENCE, ART, AND PHILOSOPHY OF CHIROPRACTIC FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTIONERS " by D.D. Palmer -The One Who Discovered The Basic Principle Of Chiropractic, Developed Its Philosopy, Originated And Founded The Science And Art Of Correcting Abnormal Functions By Hand Adjusting, Using The Vertebral Processes As LeversFOUNDED ON TONEPortland, OregonPortland Printing House Company[1910]In the Preface to the Facsimile, D.D. Palmer's grandson, D. Palmer, writes: " Of all the great truths pertaining to the welfare of humanity, none is more radiant with lasting promise than Palmer's Philosopy. It is my fervent wish that this edition will help to UNIFY and STRENGHEN our profession, as well as perpetuate my grandfather's brilliant and original study of the cause and mystery of disease. " " I believe this book will be a treasured and INSPIRING memory, reminding us of the marvelous heritage that lies within our hands. " January, 1966 D. Palmer(emphasis mine)The heading at the top of page 8 of this text reads: " The Science, Art, and Philosophy of Chiropractic " The 1st paragraph under that heading reads: " Science is knowledge reduced to law and embodied in a system. Art relates to something to be done. Science teaches us to know and art to do. The philosophy of a science is the undertanding of its principles. " Answer for yourself, doctors of chiropractic (collegues),what are the principles of chiropractic?Yours for the thot. john partmann, dcJanuary, 1966