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Although the chiropractic profession continues to grow rapidly around the world, clear understanding of the profession's scientific, philosophical, and technical foundations may have been lost. This relates particularly to the profession's fundamental principle of tone. There may be many reasons for this loss, including that the explanation of chiropractic given by its founder Daniel David Palmer was not clear.
As Palmer described chiropractic as a system, his explanation can be framed, simplified, and clarified using systems theory, systems, sciences, and systems thinking. Such use of a transdisciplinary systems perspective enables the Palmerian system's elements, the interrelationships between them, its boundaries, and its unique emergent properties to be clearly identified, explained, and understood. In this way, knowledge of the original foundations, character, and purpose of the profession can be recovered and used in the actualization of its true potential as a valuable system for the preservation of health.
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