Lecture 4 Flashcards
How many principles does chiropractic have?
33
Describe the chirpopractic principles
Chiropractic is based on professed truths that serve as the foundation for the systems and actions of the profession.
There is a fundamental truth that flows throughout them all.
Principle
a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain
of reasoning
A Priori
a fundamental principle of Chiropractic is a statement of the quality or actions of intelligence in matter which will include any and all circumstances that may arise in study
UNIVERSAL
*Exists at every level of reality
*Without boundary or limitation
* Everywhere!
*There is no place that it is not.
Intelligence
The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new situations.
* The skilled use of reason.
*The property of an organized system that is assumed to create the specific relationships within that system and/or cause the organized actions of that system.
Organization
Definitions of organize:
1. To cause to develop an organic structure
2. To form into a coherent unity or functioning whole
3. To arrange elements into a whole of interdependent parts
What assembles the specific parts and creates the specific relationships between them.
Intelligence
specific parts (structures) moving is specific relationships with each other.
organization
That which is organized
Matter
Matter
noun
1. that which makes up something, esp a physical object; material
2. substance that occupies space and has mass, as distinguished from substance that is mental, spiritual, etc.
3. substance of a specified type
Properties
- Essential motions to the identity of a “thing”
- Matter is given its identity/expression by its motions
Keep in a certain state, position or activity
Maintaining
Existence (3) RPW
- Being real: the state of being real, actual, or current, rather than imagined, invented or obsolete
- Presence in place or situation, the presence or occurrence of something in a particular place or situation
*Way of living: a way of living, especially a life of severe hardship
Existence Explained
The universe is not random its in a state of harmony.
All of the parts interact harmoniously
There are laws that regulate the universe - there is in fact an intelligence maintaining the universe in existence.
There is a law of cause and effect.
What do Systematic reviews of health care interventions most often focus on?
RCTS`
What warrants consideration of observational evidence?
used when randomized controlled trials are infeasible or raise ethical concerns, lack generalizability, or prove insufficient data
What study limitations are there?
reduced risk of selection, detection, performance and attrition
Observational Evidence domains (5)
- Study limitations
- Directness
- Consistency
- Precision
- Reporting bias
What types of reporitng bias’ are there?
publication
selective outcome reporting,
selective analysis reporting
Additional domains of dose-response association
plausible confounding that would decrease the observed effect, and strength of association (magnitude effect).
Describe Proof
*Proof exists in your own mind only.
* Proof of anything exists in what you hold
to be logical.
* Those that believe in Universal Intelligence look at the evidence and say of course there’s a Universal Intelligence.
* All the non believers look at the same evidence and say of course there isn’t.
* Both are taking it on faith.
* If it was provable then there would be an issue. The whole concept is on intangibility, of something that is infinite.
Is universal intelligence god?
Is the major premise trying to define God?
- Chiropractic makes the statement that the universe exists in such a way that displays intelligence, and because of this intelligence, the universe continues to exist because of it.
- You don’t need to be religious to believe in this statement. This comes from a position of rspect and not one of worship.
- This non-religious point of Chiropractic was further dissected by Dr. B.J. Palmer
- Chiropractic is a Philosophy, Science, and Art of things Natural:
- “The words ‘things natural’ are designedly used to exclude and eliminate any intervention of a supernatural or divine character. In other words, to exclude miracles in the strict sense of the word; to distinguish Chiropractic from religion or any healing of a miraculous kind.”
Explain Atom
All physical matter of the universe is comprised of atoms.
* Every atom has a nucleus which is positively charged.
* Orbiting around it are electrons which are negatively charged.
* The number of electrons differentiates one substance from another.
* Atoms are units of energy.
