The Goal of ABC™
ABC™ was developed from the goal of helping more people
by finding out what Chiropractic and other bio-structural
(bio = life) correction therapies can do if they worked
exactly right but could not do because they had missed several
key points. It is obvious
that treating the body structure to get people well works.
Many (most) people improve and some even get all the way to
well. But, why don’t these correction methods consistently
deliver the results they can now only offer the promise of
(the results I want to get for my patients)?
To understand the goal one must know the basic assumption;
what any scientist worth his salt (or hers) knows – there
is a reason things do not work properly when they do not and
that the reason can be found. If it is in the physical universe
it has a physical mechanics upon which it works. What is not
working within those principles can be discovered and worked
with.
Another thing is that the basic cause of outpoints (some
point which isn’t working properly) are simple. Claiming
a complicated cause or solution means you probably do not
have the basic cause of what is out (not correct or not working)
or why it is out. To investigate you must have the exact right
question or you might be this close âá and miss
it because you are looking in the wrong place. You will probably
stop too soon without finding the simple cause that is right
there to be seen. Or go off in another direction because you
cannot find what you know must be there.
Chiropractic’s basic has been: A bone is out of position
pinching on a nerve. The basic in Osteopathy is similar as
are the basics in other biostructural correction therapies
or methods. It is always a structure, usually a bone, is out
of position pinching or pushing on some soft tissue. Various
ways are offered to reposition the bone stopping the soft
tissue from being affected or repositioning the soft tissue
(push the bone, work the muscle, sooth the nerve, cut it off,
etc.).
Why does the bone go out of position? Is the question asked
by many. It is not a useful question. Various causes of bones
being out of position are offered. Many are valid but the
reason that particular question is not useful is that it does
not lead to a simple correction that works consistently.
Another question asked is: What is holding the bones out
of place? That question also does not lead to a solution.
It is not muscles. If it were then injecting the muscle with
something that stops it from contracting should lead to a
correction. It does not do so. Shoot the person or their muscles
with a drug that numbs them and stops the muscle(s) from working
occasionally gives temporary relief but it demonstrably does
not result in correction of a person's body mechanics.
It is a basic fact well accepted in engineering, physics
and the other physical sciences that the right question will
lead to a resolution because the question that asks for the
right answer has the answer in it.
Try this one: Why doesn’t the body correct the position
of bones that are moved out of position by moving them back
into position? Now that’s a question that leads somewhere
useful. (There is a specific mechanical answer and it has
been found.) As far as I can tell that question has not been
asked because people figured that the body could do anything.
That is another thought that can be demonstrated not true.
Can a body correct a broken bone all by itself?
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