Chiropractic Healthiness

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Obstetric "podpeople" can turn back into townspeople just by stopping their > (sometimes fatal) bizarre birth behaviors… > Attention ELIZABETH REID!  I *saw* that movie!  Thanks for acknowledging > that I have a good message.  By all means, use apparent sanity to succeed > where I have failed.  See the very end of this post… > PREGNANT WOMEN:  Opening your birth canal up to 30% "extra" is as simple as > rolling onto your side!  Beware though:  If you roll onto your side – some > MDs and CNMwives will try to roll you onto your back – or into semisitting – > thereby CLOSING your birth canal up to 30%!  See the quote from Simkin et > al. [2000] below – and talk to your MD or CNMwife about this NOW – BEFORE > your delivery. > So I run down the usenet highway shouting, > REMEMBER:  Obstetric "podpeople" are quite real – and they can turn back > into townspeople just by ending their (sometimes fatal) bizarre birth > practices.

 Todd…..My daughter is expecting a child in July.  Will most OB/GYN’s who are very traditional (on your back position) allow another position for birth or does one need to go "shopping" for the right doc? Cher

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Obstetric "podpeople" can turn back into townspeople just by stopping their (sometimes fatal) bizarre birth behaviors… Attention ELIZABETH REID!  I *saw* that movie!  Thanks for acknowledging that I have a good message.  By all means, use apparent sanity to succeed where I have failed.  See the very end of this post… PREGNANT WOMEN:  Opening your birth canal up to 30% "extra" is as simple as rolling onto your side!  Beware though:  If you roll onto your side – some MDs and CNMwives will try to roll you onto your back – or into semisitting – thereby CLOSING your birth canal up to 30%!  See the quote from Simkin et al. [2000] below – and talk to your MD or CNMwife about this NOW – BEFORE your delivery. OPEN LETTER (misc.kids.pregnancy, misc.health.alternative, sci.med) Brad Evenson National Post Brad, I’m posting this to the usenet to make a public record that I’ve contacted you – and to alert people to your Feb. 27, 2002 article, "Pediatricians warn against chiropractors…" http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020227/18134…

evidence that chiropractic methods should be used on children for any reason." Spinal manipulation is a prominent chiropractic method and a big part of spinal manipulation is knowing when NOT to manipulate the spine. I mention this because MD-obstetricians are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and engaging in *gruesome* manipulation of most babies’ spines at birth. Here’s how the most prolific spinal manipulators (MD-obstetricians) operate… By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, MD-obstetricians close birth canals up to 30% then routinely pull ("gently") on babies’ heads sticking out vaginas. In 10 to 15% of births, MD-obstetricians reach INSIDE vaginas to pull – with forceps and vacuum extractors. Sometimes they pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords! The grisly biomechanics of semisitting and dorsal delivery have long been published in the medical literature!  See the postscript. With MD-obstetricians so obviously engaging in massive amounts of senseless (sometimes paralyzing; sometimes fatal) manipulation of children, will you ask MD-pediatricians at the Canadian Pediatric Society why they aren’t warning against spinal manipulation by MD-obstetricians? Will you ask the chiropractic trade unions why *they* aren’t warning against spinal manipulation by MD-obstetricians? See Chiropractors infuriated in Quebec! http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&sel… .4042%24D4.278658%40newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net If the MD-pediatricians stonewall you – maybe you could write an article and publicly warn MD-obstetricians that if they must pull on babies’ heads (sometimes they must) they must first get women off their backs/buttocks – off their sacra? Perhaps you could tell pregnant women that opening the birth canal the up to 30% "extra" is as simple as rolling onto one’s side? Make sure you pregnant women them that MD-obstetricians and midwives will try to roll them back – or place them semisitting – thereby closing their birth canals up to 30%. Thanks, Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo POSTSCRIPT Brad, I almost forgot to mention the routine grisly spectacle of MD-obstetricians routinely causing uterii to PUSH on babies’ spines – with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.  Incredibly, MD-obstetricians often chemically "whip" the uterus to make it push HARDER – by administering oxytocin or Cytotec – with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%! For your convenience Brad, here are some relevant quotes from the medical literature… MDs knew about what I am talking about way back in 1913… "[M]oving backward of the tip of the sacrum…enlarges the available space not merely directly in proportion to the distance backward, but more nearly by the square of that distance." [Emmons, AB. A study of the variations in the female pelvis, based on observations made on 217 specimens of the American Indian squaw. Biometrika 1913; 9:34-47.] And the following was added to Williams Obstetrics at my request (though the authors left in their text – in the same paragraph (!) the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to their text)… "It should be noted…that the increase in the diameter of the pelvic outlet occurs **only** if the sacrum is allowed to rotate posteriorly, that is, only if the sacrum is not forced anteriorly by the weight of the maternal pelvis against the delivery table or bed." [Cunningham, MacDonald, Leveno, Gant and Gilstrap, Williams Obstetrics Appleton-Lange 1993:285, **italics in original] Here is the reference for my 30% figure… "[T]he outlet increases with moulding by approximately 20-30 per cent." [Russell JGB. Moulding of the pelvic outlet. J Obstet Gynaec Brit Cwlth 1969;76:817-20.  NOTE:  In 1973, Ohlsen verified Russell's 20% figure on Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 intrapartum x-rays.  See: http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html] NOTE:  JGB Russell demonstrated a MINOR (transverse) sacroiliac motion then pretended his minor sacroiliac motion was more important that the MAJOR (sagittal) sacral tip motion demonstrated radiographically by Borell and Fernstrom.  For details, see http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html. Also noteworthy:  Russell promoted placing women semisitting – even as he reported the "20-30 per cent" figure – yet the authors of Williams Obstetrics attributed to *Russell* the simple biomechanic fact (quoted above) that *I* called to their attention!  At the very least, they should have quoted the original author of Williams Obstetrics who DEMONSTRATED the simple biomechanics clinically – way back in 1911! Finally this: Some babies are REALLY getting hammered! According to the 21st (2001) edition of Williams Obstetrics: "In obstructed labor caused by a narrowing of the…pelvic outlet, the prognosis for vaginal delivery often depends on the length of the posterior sagittal diameter of the pelvic outlet (p. 56)…The posterior triangle [of the pelvic outlet]…is limited at its apex by the tip of the last sacral vertebra (not the coccyx) (p. 437)…With increasing narrowing of the pubic arch, the occiput cannot emerge directly beneath the symphysis pubis but is forced increasingly farther down…the ischiopubic rami.  In extreme cases, the head must rotate around a line joining the ischial tuberosities [!] (p. 438)…" Stated another way, if the mother has a narrow pubic arch, the baby’s head doesn’t go into the arch very far – which greatly increases the influence of sacro-iliac motion. Again quoting Emmons [1913]: "[M]oving backward of the tip of the sacrum…enlarges the available space not merely directly in proportion to the distance backward, but more nearly by the square of that distance." Some babies are REALLY getting hammered. Brad – and everyone else reading – please help stop MDs from closing birth canals up to 30%. After we stop MD-obstetricians and CNMwives from closing birth canals up to 30% -we can begin work on my passion – stopping The (related) Great Squat Robbery. MDs have used The Great Squat Robbery as the reason MDs routinely close birth canals up to 30%.  (See Gardosi’s 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" – where nobody squatted.) "[S]quatting was a regular behavior used until the end of the Middle Ages, and after this period a progressive decrease occurs…" [Am J Phys Anthropol 2001 May;115(1):50-6] I replied: The Great Squat Robbery that started in the Middle Ages starts anew in elementary schools every year! See C