These programs must be maintained with primary emphasis on spinal biomechanical and neuro-muscular considerations, as well as those conditions related. These programs must continue to focus on diagnostic skills in order for us to retain our rights as portals of entry to the health system. These programs must also emphasize those basic truths, which gave chiropractic its birth, its impetus, its heritage, and its distinction. They must clearly delineate the chiropractic objective from the medical objective. These fundamental and profound conceptual differences are at the crux of chiropractic's uniqueness.
Spinal manipulation is as old as man, but has always attempted to rid man from symptomatic distress.
Some of today's manipulative technologies, accompanied with stimulative and inhibitory adjunctive procedures, continue to focus on symptomatology, and this is not chiropractic. In stark contrast to this, the traditional chiropractic objective is removal of neurological interference, namely, the subluxation, for the purpose of allowing the body to fully express its inherent, inborn and innate capability of self-healing and expression. The choice is clear either that of a drugless therapeutic physician or that of a principled chiropractor.