You make the call, SPECIFIC or nothing?

We have recently received many emails that asked the same question of “Why are there ones out there who claim to be Specific in their talk, yet we know are very different in their practice?” So we wanted to openly answer the question to clear up any confusion. We share in the same sentiment, as many of you have expressed, that this becomes real annoying to the ones who truly are walking the Specific line.

Let us explain that when people are trying to be ‘popular’ they tend to say one thing yet truly do another. We all see this first hand with the political race currently. When it comes to taking the time and researching a fact, then you finally become knowledgeable of the fact, and still do things differently for personal gain or for ‘popularity’ gain, then you are doing nothing but adding to the separation of the cause. One doctor recently wrote in an article “…If the Neurocalograph readings were taken both before and after every adjustment in BJ's clinic, doesn't it make sense that we should be doing the same thing today?”  YES this does make sense, and it would be nice if the author of this excerpt was actually doing that.  However, this particular doctor, like so many others are using BJP’s research as pure blaspheme.   Is it not interesting that doctors such as this, quote BJP in saying that one should be using NEUROCALOGRAPH instrumentation for pre and post adjustment checks with patients (as BJP referred to them as patients not clients) yet this particular doctor uses different than the NEUROCALOGRAPH instrumentation in his own practice? He uses infrared!  Which is NOT the thermocouple NEUROCALOGRAPH which BJP used and is still available today.

Then he continues to state that “…BJP researched for 20 years to enable us to do what we do today..” which clearly by the research shows that BJP has already done it, so why reinvent the wheel, right? Yet ones out there today are doing just that.  There are ones that proclaim to be doing this technique or that new procedure. Changing the way x-rays are marked ( or not marked ), changing the ways the doctor setup is, change, change, change. These are the people that claim “THEY” are so direct and in contact with BJP and the lineage that “THEY” know what BJP would have done if alive today. These that make these erroneous false claims are nothing more than pure pettifoggers.

What really is ironic is they use BJP again and state “Chiropractic is Specific or it is nothing.” Which brings it all home in one sentence, because if ‘THEY’ are not being SPECIFIC in utilizing the SAME instrumentation, at the bare minimum, that BJP used when he was Specific, they how can they claim that ‘THEY’ are specific?? So if they are not doing this then what else can they be by the clarity of the quoted sentence?

This falls so true to many out there, they really want to be SPECIFIC and want to ‘claim’ on paper or in a conversation that they are ‘unified’ yet by doing exactly opposite in their practice of the words of BJP, then they are only SEPERATING the profession and maintaining this separation by pure self admonition. This is not what the research shows, nor is the way BJP stated in his words for it to be, and if it takes us to show that these people talk one way and walk another, then so be it. The old saying stands true, and that is the Truth Hurts sometimes.

We must not look for the ‘popular’ vote, we must look for the PURE vote. As purity will withstand the elements of time, popularity will come and go. We have seen that with so many ‘technique bandwagons’ over the years. This year it is the “orange bandwagon” , next year it is the ‘purple bandwagon,’ and still the next will be the ‘tangerine bandwagon.’  Why not get on and stay on the PURE BANDWAGON of principled TIC, just do as HE DID, EXACTLY AS HE DID SO YOU CAN GET THE EXACT SAME RESULTS HE DID. PERIOD! Do not reinvent the profession. Do not try and restructure Chiropractic to be one sided or another. Look inside YOU and bring out the true essence of what it takes to be a person of character and integrity. Stand up for TIC, not worried what your fellow comrade will say or think of you. Use the NEUROCALOGRAPH thermocouple instrument just as BJP did, don’t talk about it and praise it then go and use another instrument, thinking and telling yourself it is the same, when you KNOW it is not.  That shows to the world a lack of character, and truly insults your intelligence.  You should not have your character tarnished for anyone.  It should not be about what doctor x or doctor y is doing, but should be about how YOU and innate can come together and understand how to correctly detect  and re-align the bone to remove the vertebral Subluxation by hands only. This IS the only true collaboration that we NEED to have to become unified back into TIC.  Do NOT quote BJP in one statement and do something else in your own practice and think it will go overlooked. Stand for one thing, and that is the principle. Period.

However, if you choose to quote BJP then you need to be doing EXACTLY as he did WITHOUT VARIATION, not your own personal version of what he did. That is what is considered a pseudo-chiropractor, and we already have too many of those in the profession today.  Be strong in your thoughts as to what YOU choose to do, then act upon that and stay with it. If it does not fall within the guidelines of what BJP did then have enough integrity to not use BJP as a crutch to help YOU in YOUR mind THINK you are doing good because you are doing a version of what BJP did. Step out on your own and away from BJP, or then again maybe you can’t.

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Comments

[Gooch]

That is so true BJ. It is not only specific chiropractors that get annoyed but potential patients. This morning we had a 3 year old who was brought in by her mom. The three year old has PDD. The mom was being grilled by her mother inlaw saying how do you know he doesnt put upper cervical in front of his name just to get patients. Maybe he does'nt know how to do it. Well we made sure that this mom was sent home with a print out of pre and post graphs and a print out of the xray itself. This way not only can her husband and other family clearly see what took place but to know that the right thing was done.
We should be calling these so called specific chiropractors out on the mat and not be afraid to expose them. All technique heads in upper cervical should really be checking who is stating that they are certified doctors and who truly arent and ask them to remove that information from their websites or other advertising. Then we can clean up part of that mess. I know that it is no easy task because upper cervical is getting a lot of press and people want to jump in on the popularity of it, however it will be critical to the potential slander and bad press the procedure might get when the doctors truly are not doing what they are supposed to. Doctors remeber potential patients are smart consumers and they are looking you up all over the internet before they even call you. I guess it all comes down to integrity. Some got it and some don't!

Keep up the great work BJ.