{"id":29501,"date":"2022-02-28T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.institutechiro.com\/?p=29501"},"modified":"2023-09-28T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:50:02","slug":"virgil-strang-dc-fica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.institutechiro.com\/virgil-strang-dc-fica\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil Strang, DC, FICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n      \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n              <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.institutechiro.com\/login\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n                  <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n                    <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29501\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.institutechiro.com\/login\/?action=forgot_password\">Forgot Password<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,285,314,278],"tags":[276,344],"comments_count":"0","content_native":[{"type":"core\/heading","render":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Palmer Philosophy Instructor and Author<\/h2>","content":"Palmer Philosophy Instructor and Author","data":[],"style":{"align":"left","parent_style":{},"header":"h2","fontSize":"27px"}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>Dr. Strang entered Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1948 and graduated in 1951. He then became part of the faculty at Palmer and taught anatomy. In 1965 Dr. Strang was asked by Dr. Galen Price to work with him traveling and representing the college in Philosophy. Dr. Strang was Director of Admissions (1963-67), Director of Professional Ethics (1967), and Dean of Philosophy (from 1979 until his appointment as interim president in 1994). He was the 7th President of Palmer College of Chiropractic from 1994 until his death in 1998.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"Dr. Strang entered Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1948 and graduated in 1951. He then became part of the faculty at Palmer and taught anatomy. In 1965 Dr. Strang was asked by Dr. Galen Price to work with him traveling and representing the college in Philosophy. Dr. Strang was Director of Admissions (1963-67), Director of Professional Ethics (1967), and Dean of Philosophy (from 1979 until his appointment as interim president in 1994). He was the 7th President of Palmer College of Chiropractic from 1994 until his death in 1998."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/image","render":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1075097-3761862.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/virgilstrang-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>","content":"https:\/\/wordpress-1075097-3761862.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/virgilstrang-209x300.jpg","data":{"src":"https:\/\/wordpress-1075097-3761862.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/virgilstrang-209x300.jpg"},"style":{"width":209,"height":300,"align":"left","parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>Dr. Strang had a private practice in Illinois for 47 years, starting in 1951.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"Dr. Strang had a private practice in Illinois for 47 years, starting in 1951."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>He was named a distinguished Fellow of the International Chiropractors Association (FICA) in 1974. Dr. Strang received the Doctor of Chiropractic Humanities degree in 1981. He served as ICA Vice President (1985). He received fellowships from the Palmer Academy of Chiropractic and the Palmer West Academy of Chiropractic, while chiropractic fraternities Delta Sigma Chi and Pi Kappa Chi made him an honorary member. (<a href=\"https:\/\/dynamicchiropractic.com\/article\/37515-a-moment-of-silence-for-virgil-strang-dc\">Memorial to Strang<\/a>)<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"He was named a distinguished Fellow of the International Chiropractors Association (FICA) in 1974. Dr. Strang received the Doctor of Chiropractic Humanities degree in 1981. He served as ICA Vice President (1985). He received fellowships from the Palmer Academy of Chiropractic and the Palmer West Academy of Chiropractic, while chiropractic fraternities Delta Sigma Chi and Pi Kappa Chi made him an honorary member. (<a href=\"https:\/\/dynamicchiropractic.com\/article\/37515-a-moment-of-silence-for-virgil-strang-dc\">Memorial to Strang<\/a>)"}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>Dr. Strang authored a short biographical paper on the life of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.institutechiro.com\/pdfviewer\/david-daniel-palmer-the-educator\/\">David Daniel Palmer<\/a>.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"Dr. Strang authored a short biographical paper on the life of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.institutechiro.com\/pdfviewer\/david-daniel-palmer-the-educator\/\">David Daniel Palmer<\/a>."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/heading","render":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strang Quotes<\/h2>","content":"Strang Quotes","data":[],"style":{"align":"left","parent_style":{},"header":"h2","fontSize":"27px"}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>"}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{},"fontSize":"20px"}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>From the very beginning days of chiropractic, there was the realization within the profession that the mechanistic philosophy of the allopaths was obviously missing something; their philosophy simply was unable to account for the fact that all of life seems to possess an organizing, purposeful force. In an attempt to remedy the situation, D. D. Palmer used the exquisite phrases \u201cUniversal Intelligence\u201d and \u201cInnate Intelligence\u201d to speak of the organizing force that pervades everything from the vast galaxies to the simple squamous cells of the epithelium.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"From the very beginning days of chiropractic, there was the realization within the profession that the mechanistic philosophy of the allopaths was obviously missing something; their philosophy simply was unable to account for the fact that all of life seems to possess an organizing, purposeful force. In an attempt to remedy the situation, D. D. Palmer used the exquisite phrases \u201cUniversal Intelligence\u201d and \u201cInnate Intelligence\u201d to speak of the organizing force that pervades everything from the vast galaxies to the simple squamous cells of the epithelium."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>One must remember that D. D. Palmer was writing at a time when important mechanisms of neurology, homeostasis and genetics were still to be discovered. It was the age before scientific thinking was turned on its ear by the development of the concepts of energy and field in electro-magnetism, light, gravitation and the atom. As we will see shortly, there are today solid parallels in science which can allow us to assume with more confidence than ever that there is an overall organization in living matter which can be (and should be) accounted for by chiropractic philosophy. Instead of saying we know that&nbsp; \u201csomething\u201d is there, but don\u2019t ask us to explain it (e.g., \u201cWe have no way of knowing whether innate resides in the brain, in the body or outside of the body \u2026 \u201d 15 ) , we now can offer an explanation that has a better fit with what science is revealing in the laboratory.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"One must remember that D. D. Palmer was writing at a time when important mechanisms of neurology, homeostasis and genetics were still to be discovered. It was the age before scientific thinking was turned on its ear by the development of the concepts of energy and field in electro-magnetism, light, gravitation and the atom. As we will see shortly, there are today solid parallels in science which can allow us to assume with more confidence than ever that there is an overall organization in living matter which can be (and should be) accounted for by chiropractic philosophy. Instead of saying we know that&nbsp; \u201csomething\u201d is there, but don\u2019t ask us to explain it (e.g., \u201cWe have no way of knowing whether innate resides in the brain, in the body or outside of the body \u2026 \u201d 15 ) , we now can offer an explanation that has a better fit with what science is revealing in the laboratory."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>The interesting thing about scientific research is that as it has unfolded over the past 100 years, the findings have invariably supported the major premises of chiropractic. Scientific research has done one thing in the 20th century for chiropractic philosophy: it has enabled us to now present a stronger case for the presence of intelligence (an organizing force) in both the universe and the human organism. (Principles p. 33)<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"The interesting thing about scientific research is that as it has unfolded over the past 100 years, the findings have invariably supported the major premises of chiropractic. Scientific research has done one thing in the 20th century for chiropractic philosophy: it has enabled us to now present a stronger case for the presence of intelligence (an organizing force) in both the universe and the human organism. (Principles p. 33)"}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Subluxation<\/strong><\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Subluxation<\/strong><\/p>"}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{},"fontSize":"20px"}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>It is not the purpose of this philosophy book to choose one theory of subluxation over another. The truth is, all of the major theories of subluxation have their strengths and weaknesses! The problem with any theory is that it cannot account for all the varying conditions which can surround and engage the thing or event that it is attempting to explain. A theory is static while the actuality is dynamic. But still, we do need theories. A theory is an explanation of how an unknown works. If a theory becomes proven to the satisfaction of all concerned experts, then it is elevated to the status of a law.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"It is not the purpose of this philosophy book to choose one theory of subluxation over another. The truth is, all of the major theories of subluxation have their strengths and weaknesses! The problem with any theory is that it cannot account for all the varying conditions which can surround and engage the thing or event that it is attempting to explain. A theory is static while the actuality is dynamic. But still, we do need theories. A theory is an explanation of how an unknown works. If a theory becomes proven to the satisfaction of all concerned experts, then it is elevated to the status of a law."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>Many times chiropractic students express the desire to do away with \u201call of the conflicting theories\u201d of chiropractic and simply, via research, \u201cprove which one is really correct.\u201d Well, there are problems with this approach. First of all, under the right circumstances, each of the major subluxation theories is probably correct. Each presents a portion of the whole picture; several theories are needed in order to see the subluxation in all its living forms. When we speak of the subluxation we must remember that it occurs in a dynamic spine in a dynamic and complex body. The variables are astronomical.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"Many times chiropractic students express the desire to do away with \u201call of the conflicting theories\u201d of chiropractic and simply, via research, \u201cprove which one is really correct.\u201d Well, there are problems with this approach. First of all, under the right circumstances, each of the major subluxation theories is probably correct. Each presents a portion of the whole picture; several theories are needed in order to see the subluxation in all its living forms. When we speak of the subluxation we must remember that it occurs in a dynamic spine in a dynamic and complex body. The variables are astronomical."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>To say that subluxations occur only by way of swollen discs, or proprioceptive insult, or rotational narrowing of the IVF, or whatever, is to needlessly weaken the considerable case for the subluxation.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"To say that subluxations occur only by way of swollen discs, or proprioceptive insult, or rotational narrowing of the IVF, or whatever, is to needlessly weaken the considerable case for the subluxation."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>Secondly, students (who are understandably anxious to erase all uncertainty before entering practice) must remember that conflicting theories abound in all the hard sciences and health arts. Physiologists have disagreed for some time over the events responsible for the first heart sound. That disagreement has not kept M.D.\u2019s from treating a discordant \u201cIub!\u201d when they hear it. Similarly there are four theories of hearing. Page 843 of Krusen\u2019s Handbook of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation discusses the \u201cplace theory,\u201d \u201cfrequency theory,\u201d \u201cvolley theory,\u201d and \u201ctraveling wave theory.\u201d 20 The author notes, \u201cthe fact that four different explanations persist indicates the complexity of the process. The rehabilitator can use this perspective in approaching hearing impairment.\u201d The same notion could be applied to subluxation theories. Their very plurality bespeaks the myriad nature of the subluxation. Likewise, the chiropractor can use this perspective in approaching neuroarticular impairment.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"Secondly, students (who are understandably anxious to erase all uncertainty before entering practice) must remember that conflicting theories abound in all the hard sciences and health arts. Physiologists have disagreed for some time over the events responsible for the first heart sound. That disagreement has not kept M.D.\u2019s from treating a discordant \u201cIub!\u201d when they hear it. Similarly there are four theories of hearing. Page 843 of Krusen\u2019s Handbook of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation discusses the \u201cplace theory,\u201d \u201cfrequency theory,\u201d \u201cvolley theory,\u201d and \u201ctraveling wave theory.\u201d 20 The author notes, \u201cthe fact that four different explanations persist indicates the complexity of the process. The rehabilitator can use this perspective in approaching hearing impairment.\u201d The same notion could be applied to subluxation theories. Their very plurality bespeaks the myriad nature of the subluxation. Likewise, the chiropractor can use this perspective in approaching neuroarticular impairment."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>The chiropractic approach to patient care focuses on the subluxation. Clinically the subluxation requires the chiropractor to always be aware of two factors: the neurological and the biomechanical. There are nine leading models of the neurological dysfunction associated with the subluxation. Presented in no preferential order, they are:<br>Nerve Compression Hypothesis<br>Proprioceptive Insult Hypothesis<br>Somatosympathetic Reflex Hypothesis<br>Somato-somatic Reflex Hypothesis<br>Viscerosomatic Reflex Hypothesis<br>Somatopsychic Hypothesis<br>Neurodystrophic Hypothesis<br>Dentate Ligament-Cord Distortion Hypothesis<br>Psychogenic Hypothesis (Principles p. 104)<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"The chiropractic approach to patient care focuses on the subluxation. Clinically the subluxation requires the chiropractor to always be aware of two factors: the neurological and the biomechanical. There are nine leading models of the neurological dysfunction associated with the subluxation. Presented in no preferential order, they are:<br>Nerve Compression Hypothesis<br>Proprioceptive Insult Hypothesis<br>Somatosympathetic Reflex Hypothesis<br>Somato-somatic Reflex Hypothesis<br>Viscerosomatic Reflex Hypothesis<br>Somatopsychic Hypothesis<br>Neurodystrophic Hypothesis<br>Dentate Ligament-Cord Distortion Hypothesis<br>Psychogenic Hypothesis (Principles p. 104)"}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>A Thought on Homeostasis<\/strong><\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>A Thought on Homeostasis<\/strong><\/p>"}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{},"fontSize":"20px"}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>We know that homeostasis involves negative feedback. We even know some of the mechanisms entailed. But this knowledge does not really touch the deeper mystery of how the body \u201cthinks\u201d physiologically: sensory information must be endlessly integrated and efferent activity determined.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"We know that homeostasis involves negative feedback. We even know some of the mechanisms entailed. But this knowledge does not really touch the deeper mystery of how the body \u201cthinks\u201d physiologically: sensory information must be endlessly integrated and efferent activity determined."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>The stringing together of mechanisms cannot be expected to capture the overall reality of organic, dynamic activity. Classic mechanistic thinking is rooted in the notion that the parts explain the whole. This is true of mechanistic processes such as gearing or even electronic computing. But as Aristotle observed, nature is a world of purpose.1 In such a world, mechanisms are merely the instruments through which superimposing purposes work their wills.<br>It is this marvelous, innate (inborn), purposeful nature which is the predominant, practical reality behind the mechanisms of homeostasis.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"The stringing together of mechanisms cannot be expected to capture the overall reality of organic, dynamic activity. Classic mechanistic thinking is rooted in the notion that the parts explain the whole. This is true of mechanistic processes such as gearing or even electronic computing. But as Aristotle observed, nature is a world of purpose.1 In such a world, mechanisms are merely the instruments through which superimposing purposes work their wills.<br>It is this marvelous, innate (inborn), purposeful nature which is the predominant, practical reality behind the mechanisms of homeostasis."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":null,"dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>1. E.L. Allen, From Plato to Nietzsche (New York: Fawcett, 1966), p. 31. (Principles p. 166)<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"1. E.L. Allen, From Plato to Nietzsche (New York: Fawcett, 1966), p. 31. 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