The Flow Chart Is Your Clinical Compass: Here’s How to Use It.

The KST Edge | Week 4 Issue 4

Let me ask you something.

If I handed you a brand-new patient right now, someone with a complicated history, multiple complaints, and a look on their face that says “I’ve tried everything,” what would you do?

If your stomach just dropped a little, that’s your Educated mind panicking. It’s running through differential diagnoses, scanning textbook chapters, trying to remember protocols. It’s asking, “What do I think is wrong?”

Now take a breath.

Because if you have your KST flow chart, you already have the answer to that panic. And the answer isn’t a diagnosis. It’s a question: “Body, what do you need?”

That’s what the flow chart is. It’s not a cheat sheet. It’s not a decision tree for your Educated mind to work through logically. It’s a clinical compass, a systematized way of asking Innate Intelligence what’s going on, in what order, and what to do about it.

Stephenson’s Principle #23 says the function of Innate is to adapt environmental forces and matter for use in the body, so that all parts work in coordinated action for mutual benefit. The flow chart lets you access that function. It lets you tap into the body’s own coordinating intelligence rather than imposing yours.

Let’s walk through the architecture:

When you open the flow chart, you’ll see it branches into major categories. Think of these as the big questions Innate might answer:

Something to adjust, This is where most students expect to live. Vertebrae, extremities, cranials. But notice: it’s only one branch. If adjusting were the only answer, the flow chart would be one page with a spine diagram.

Something to take: vitamins, minerals, herbs, homeopathy, essential oils, adaptogens, enzymes, probiotics, and more. Innate might be saying the body needs input before it needs a correction.

Something to apply, Ice, heat, castor oil, grounding, sunshine, kinesio tape, CBD, laser, and yes, even a hug. The body’s needs aren’t always structural.

Something to strengthen, Muscles, upper and lower body, balance, resolve, faith, vision, mind, even finances. Innate doesn’t separate the physical from the rest of life. Neither should we.

Something to stretch, And not just muscles. Your vision. Your goals. Your faith. Your patience. When the body says “stretch,” it might not mean hamstrings.

And then there are the deeper layers: DAMNS B, we’ll do a full deep dive on this one, allergies, infections, toxicity, deficiencies, and what I call the “Other Stuff,” Wrong Original Thoughts, heart walls, psychotic reversal, quantum level issues, stacking. The flow chart goes everywhere the body might need you to go.

Here’s what I want you to understand: the breadth of this chart IS the edge. Most techniques teach you one thing: how to adjust the spine. KST teaches you to be a complete chiropractor. When a patient walks in and Innate says the priority isn’t a vertebra, it’s dehydration, or an emotional pattern, or an allergy, or a toxin, you’re not lost. You’re equipped.

Your Educated mind will resist this at first. It’ll say, “I’m not trained for all that.” But you are. The flow chart IS the training. And Innate is the guide. You don’t have to know everything, you just have to be willing to ask and trust the answer.

Over the coming weeks, we’re going to unpack this chart piece by piece. Hydration. Nutrition. DAMNS B. Emotional patterns. Allergies. Infections. Toxicity. All of it. By the time we’re done, you won’t just own the flow chart, you’ll live it.

This week’s challenge: Pull out your flow chart, both pages, and just look at it. Don’t study it. Don’t try to memorize it. Just notice how broad it is. Notice how many categories exist beyond “something to adjust.” Let it sink in that this is your clinical compass, and you’ve barely begun to explore it.

Next week, we go deep into one of the most important philosophy conversations we’ll have all year: where subluxations actually come from. Hint: it’s not “sleeping wrong.”

You are invited to the FREE KST Webinar

May 1st 2026 • 1 PM Eastern Time

What will you discover?

• Specific adjusting of each area of the priorities charts, including SEDDVED. Tips, tricks, and pitfalls.

• Demonstration and use of simple tools you can recommend in your office to help patients heal faster

• Arthrostim techniques, manual adjusting techniques, and integration of your individual techniques, you come to the seminar with.

• Using the KST flow charts to reduce frustration and end the seeming black hole of endless priorities

• Communication throughout the seminar on how to talk to patients about what you do and why you do it.

• Neuroprocessing and the practical application of it in your practice. It is an intrinsic phrase-based challenge work with KST and not NET

• Homework for patients for a variety of issues that keep them thinking of you through their week

• Strength and balance work

• Monetizing your services

• And MUCH more!

Trust Innate. Find the Edge.

Dr. Kevin Ross

KST Academic Director