Principles of Chiropractic - Midterm Exam - Practice Questions - Fall 2023

Deductive reasoning is different from inductive reasoning in that deductive reasoning:

Control of healthcare by insurance industry in early 1900’s was a major obstacles that restricted chiro’s early growth.

The 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study reported a “iatrogenic death rate” of approximately (annually):

All physiological and biological processes cannot be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry alone.

Strauss’s text: if a principle is true in the perceptible realm, then it is true in the imperceptible realm.

The “Wilk Law Suit” filed against the A.M.A et al, resulted in the defendants of:

Realizes the significance of the “non-material” and the innate intelligence of the human body.

The intent of early osteopathic technique did not include the following objective:

Gnosis is superior knowledge that is above mere assimilation of facts and refers to right brain knowledge.

Underscores the importance of chiropractic care in maintaining the well-being of the entire individual.

Maintenance/Exisitence

Federal Accreditation of Chiropractic Colleges was the final outcome of the Will vs. AMA lawsuit.

Disease is a state of the body

“Head knowledge” is the “left” or “nous” of the brain and the term “kardia” means “heart knowlege” or right brain.

The human body is to some degree a self-healing, self-regulating organism.

Subluxation

Disease is defined as a dysfunction, incoordination, lacking health, transmission, coordination and well being

The most serious challenge to orthodox medicine was homeopathy; patients preferred it over medicine because:

Matter

Innate intelligence is related to intelligence at the atomic level and functions in accord with bio and physio processes

Supports the empirical process of thought and perception.

B.J. Palmer’s vitalistic perception of the human body was a manifestation & proof of an existence of intelligence within

Faith is a viable from of perception in philosophy & is equally applicable to concepts of empiricism or rationalization.

A vitalistic construct

“Bone-setting” became identified and stereotyped in the early 1900s as:

Nerve Impulse

General Adaption Syndrome (G.A.S) always produces a particular triad syndrome. Which is not included in that triad?

Universal intelligence would be associated with organization at the atomic level.

Federal Accreditation (CCE, 1974) was directly responsible for chiropractic licensure in all states.

Abnormal spinal alignment and its effect on circulation or body fluids

An organ taken out of a dead person may be kept alive for hours because it is still manifesting organ intelligence.

The “Flexner Report” (1914) reported on medical education in the U.S. (and Canada) summarized that:

Fundamental criticisms of the practice of orthodox medicine by non-allopathic practitioners include all but one of these

Is the basis of mechanistic perception

Living organisms manifest the properties and action of matter and energy

The process of biology, physiology and life are completely explicable by the use of chemistry, physics, and math alone.

The effects of spinal structure and the associated neurological consequences.

Life is the result of physical matter only.

Physical elements assemble and then express consciousness

Rationalization is the most common form of perception utilized in chiropractic philosophy.

Life is an expression/manifestation through matter

Innate Intelligence relates to all the following except:

Strauss suggests that a chiropractors “adjusting technique” determines the philosophical basis of their practice.

A manual procedure that uses controlled force, leverage, direction, amplitude and velocity directed at a specific joint

The vitalistic ability of living things to maintain constancy of their internal makeup and balance is the definition of:

Innate intelligence and universal intelligence are similar in that they both organize matter at the atomic level.

Which of the following was insignificant to chiropractic’s initial or early development?

Universal intelligence would best be defined in chiropractic as:

The term “Chiropractic” was coined by Samuel Weed from two Greek/Latin terms, cheer (hand) and praxis (practice).

Innate Intelligence

Homeopathy’s past history is significant to today’s chiropractic profession in that: