Chiropractic Healthiness

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"Conservative estimates place the number of Americans with epilepsy at two percent of the population-at least four million people.  Of these, a minimum of one million have seizures which are not controlled with standard medical approaches…" –Donna J. Andrews, PhD http://www.andrewsreiter.org/work.html OPEN LETTER (misc.kids.pregnancy, misc.health.alternative, sci.med, alt.support.epilepsy) Donna J. Andrews, PhD Andrews-Reiter Epilepsy Research Foundation, Inc. http://www.andrewsreiter.org/ Donna, I write regarding epilepsy PREVENTION… Did you know that standard medical delivery positions (semisitting and dorsal) place the woman on her sacrum – on her back/buttocks – thereby closing the birth canal up to 30%? Did you know that fetal skulls are routinely senselessly distorted – fetal brains pinched – sometimes fatally – because MDs place women on their sacra at delivery? Did you know that MDs routinely pull ("gently") on babies’ heads sticking out vaginas/birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%? Did you know that in 10 to 15% of births, MDs reach INSIDE vaginas – with forceps and/or vacuum extractors – and drag babies by their skulls through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%? Did you know that MDs sometimes pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords! As you might imagine, MDs are lying, attempting to cover-up this massive obstetric crime. See The cruelest lies: DON’T punish MDs (or MBs) http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=WwaP7.27887%24WC1.2921230%… ead2.prod.itd.earthlink.net Donna, you say epilepsy is a "behavior disorder" "triggered" by the environment – by "stressful situations" – with BRAIN DAMAGE lowering the threshold for tolerance. http://www.andrewsreiter.org/work.html Many cases of epilepsy may be due to an egregious MD childbirth behavior disorder – routine closure of birth canals up to 30%! MDs may be causing brain damage which causes epilepsy by lowering stress thresholds. Regardless though whether stopping MDs from closing birth canals up to 30% is ever demonstrated to prevent epilepsy, I hope the Andrews-Reiter Epilepsy Research Foundation, Inc. will join me in working to stop MDs from closing birth canals up to 30%. Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo POSTSCRIPT Donna, you once suggested that epilepsy patients must move away from epilepsy triggers… "[W]e may find there are some triggers that the patient must move away from…" http://www.indiana.edu/~pietsch/zoeseizure.html What if damage to the neck at childbirth creates epilepsy triggers which epilepsy patients *can’t* move away from?

subluxation was administered to 15 patients, and all reported positive outcomes as a result of chiropractic care…It is suggested that chiropractic care be further investigated regarding its role in the overall health care management of pediatric epileptic patients." [Pistolese RA. Epilepsy and seizure disorders: a review of literature relative to chiropractic care of children. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2001 Mar-Apr;24(3):199-205] Can it be that musculoskeletal sprains/strains sustained at birth become epilepsy triggers which adversely affect diaphragmatic breathing via the phrenic nerve? I ask because of your statement, "[W]hat we want as a first line of defense when a seizure starts is a deep diaphragmatic breath, so effective in aborting a seizure." –Donna J. Andrews, PhD quoted at… http://www.indiana.edu/~pietsch/zoeseizure.html Maybe subluxated patients lose some spontaneous diaphragmatic breath control because the cervical spine has been damaged at birth? Remember:  During development the diaphragm is displaced inferiorly, dragging the phrenic nerve along with it – from its origin at C3-C5. http://www.amawa.com.au/wamss/exams/Early%20Embryonic%20Development.doc Another source gives the origin of the phrenic nerve as C2-C4. [Ganong Wf. Review of Medical Physiology. 11th ed. Los Altos, CA: Lange p. 106] Again quoting Pistolese [2001]:  "Upper cervical care to correct vertebral subluxation was administered to 15 patients, and all reported positive outcomes as a result of chiropractic care…It is suggested that chiropractic care be further investigated regarding its role in the overall health care management of pediatric epileptic patients." [Pistolese RA. Epilepsy and seizure disorders: a review of literature relative to chiropractic care of children. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2001 Mar-Apr;24(3):199-205] Whether SPINAL chiropractic adjusting is ever scientifically demonstrated to relieve epilepsy suffering – I recommend immediate application of the NON-SPINAL chiropractic adjustment discussed above – stopping MDs from closing birth canals up to 30% gruesomely manipulating most babies’ spines at birth. NOTE:  General neurosurgeon Robert A. Fink, MD recently scoffed (on alt.support.epilepsy) at the notion that spinal chiropractic adjusting might relieve epilepsy suffering… "…The abnormal electrical discharges which cause seizures start in the *brain*.  The abnormal impulses thus generated are passed down the spinal cord and peripheral nerves to muscles, and then (in motor seizures), the muscles contract. "Look at it this way.  If lightning strikes the power station (brain), all of the houses supplied by the wires coming from the power station (spinal cord and peripheral nerves) will be affected.  The problem, however does not come from the wires, it comes from the power station." http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=hmuu3usomku5ejvh88i9brrroh… 4%404ax.com Gastaldo remarks:  MDs *are* spraining/straining tiny NECKS at birth which MAY create abnormal electrical disharges which adversely affect diaphragmatic breathing and trigger epilepsy. MDs are ALSO striking BRAINS with "lightening" – forcing fetal skulls through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%… Dr. Fink not only does NOTHING to stop the obvious crime – he encourages a related crime! See Episiotomy: Fink promoting cerebral palsy myth? http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=dKOS6.579%24Lx.176500%40pa… snr1.gtei.net One last matter… Chen et al. [2001] studied 100 patients with traumatic brachial plexus palsy – specifically the relationship between C-5 preganglionic root lesion and the functional integrity of the ipsilateral phrenic nerve….phrenic nerves were normal in 80 cases, partially injured in 7, and severely injured in 13…found C-5 preganglionic root lesions in 13 (100%) patients with severely injured, 5 (71.4%) with partially injured, and 24 (30%) with normal phrenic nerves." Chen et al. concluded, "This correlation suggests phrenic nerve conduction study is a useful tool in the diagnosis of C-5 preganglionic root lesions in patients with traumatic brachial plexopathy."  [Chen ZY, Xu JG, Shen LY, Gu YD. Phrenic nerve conduction study in patients with traumatic brachial plexus palsy. Muscle Nerve 2001 Oct;24(10):1388-90.] To all MD-obstetricians reading:  From the perspective of brachial plexus NERVE damage:  If you must pull on babies’ heads – and sometimes you must – FIRST get the woman off her sacrum – off her butt/back.  From the perspective of BRAIN damage (due to fetal skull distortion):  Get her off her butt/back before the head starts into the outlet – before you start whipping the uterus with oxytocin or Cytotec. Thanks for reading, Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo Copied to:  Stuart Warner, DC and Theresa Warner, DC via

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<snip> > Donna, > I write regarding epilepsy PREVENTION… > Did you know that standard medical delivery positions (semisitting > and dorsal) place the woman on her sacrum – on her back/buttocks – > thereby closing the birth canal up to 30%? > Sincerely,

<snip> > Todd

That’s interesting….. when I delivered my legs were up in stirrups and spread wide open, which I thought was the *standard* delivery position???  Maybe this semisitting stuff is a new trend for more natural deliveries?  On all the "birthing" shows on Discovery Health, the women are in that position also. Or maybe you’re not quoting US practices? At the size of my child, if my birth canal were any tighter, he wouldn’t have made it through.  And he has *no* health problems whatsoever! Sherry

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