131 - The Philosophy of Chiropractic: Why Patients Need to Understand Their Care

Yeah, because it's like...

And this is one thing that I definitely talk about with my coaching clients, especially the build ones that, you know, if you're a young doc that's just kind of come out of uni and you're like, I don't know how to be a chiropractor.

You need to first be clear between here before you can be clear here with doing what we're doing.

And yeah, I just, I was thinking about it today, you know, where maybe you guys don't get this one in the States, but like we get, you know, these memes in Australia where it's like me, how do I pay my taxes? Public school, shut up and play the recorder.

You know, like you used to get taught so much useless stuff in high school and primary school that just doesn't apply to life.

And

then I don't want to say that you get taught a bunch of useless stuff in chiropractic school, but I did have to sit through a bunch of vertebra anatomy units at Murdoch which was great if I wanted to learn how field mice regulate their body temperature and that kind of stuff.

And I was thinking about it today and I was like, why is there no meaningful business unit? Why is there not more art, more like hands-on, this is how we adjust? Why was there one watered-down philosophy unit in first year and...

you know, the science that we did was, and the program that I went through was pretty sciencey, pretty evidence-based.

There wasn't really any chiropractic science.

Do you know what I mean?

Evidence of what? Yeah.

Evidence of what? Like there was nothing from,

you know, some of the lead researchers now, like we were discussing like Heidi Harvick and, you know, you just have just had a phenomenal paper put through with a bunch of researchers.

There's nothing like that hitting university.

Right.

That is interesting too, because so much of what we are having to take in the chiropractic education, if it was taught with the lens of philosophy, when you're learning the neurology or you're learning the biology, there was an element where the professor taught how from a philosophical lens, when we look at the intelligence that is present in the biology of That would be a way where we could marry in not just this very almost like segmented approach to learning through chiropractic school.

Instead, this philosophy could be wove through the art, the philosophy could be wove through the science.

And the philosophy, I dare say, even can be wove through your business because there is an element of our philosophy that is all about how life unfolds and your business is part of your life.

And so I don't know, to me, the philosophy is like the blanket that should cover it all.

And when you open up.

I think, to trying to grasp, because I think that's the hard part, is you have to wrestle with the philosophy.

And part of the challenge of it is it's taking these ideas, whether we're talking about the 33 principles or going back to some of like, you know, Didi's writings and BJ's writings, and you wrestle with what did they mean when they used this word choice here, right? Like, what does that mean? And, you know, in the...

the principles, I think they're so deep that it's tough sometimes to, you can't just look at them from a surface level and, and get a lot from them, which is why I think people avoid it is because you do have to do some wrestling with it.