Todd Gastaldo
January 16th 05, 06:30 PM
Pregnant women in India: India's OBs are very likely imitating the West's
obstetricians - routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and keeping birth
canals closed when babies get stuck. See quote below.
You do not have to squat to allow your birth canal to open the "extra" up to
30%. See the end of this post.
SQUATTING, NEURO-THEOLOGY AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
"[T]he World Health Organisation recently incorporat[ed] spiritual
well-being as the fourth facet of health, in addition to the physical,
mental and social well-being... [A] new field of neuro-theology...tries to
amalgamate science with philosophy and examines spirituality as more than a
mystical sense."
http://vigyanprasar.com/news/newsdet.asp?newsdate=7/6/2004&newsno=1
OPEN LETTER (archived for global access: see below)
Prof. Dr. Ashok Panagariya,
Department of Neurology
Sawai Man Singh Medical College
Jaipur 302004
INDIA
Ashok,
You were quoted in the article about "neuro-theology" cited above.
The chiropractic notion of Innate might perhaps be described as
"neuro-theology."
Dr. DD Palmer, founder of chiropractic hypothesized that health is the
result of nerve irritation by a spiritual force he named Innate.
Dr. Palmer said of this spiritual force (Innate):
"[S]o far I would not change...[the name Innate] except to replace it with
the name of...the Christian's God, the Hebrew's Helohim, the Mahometan's
Allah..." [1910:493]
If one assumes Innate/God is irritating the nervous system to cause health,
then if a patient is sick there is some noxious mechanical/chemical/psychic
irritant present: Chiropractic diagnosis is application of neurophysiology
to identify the noxious irritant (mech/chem/psychic) and chiropractic
treatment is the most conservative means of removing it.
See the definition of chiropractic in Dorland's Illustrated Medical
Dictionary [1988, 1994, 2000 (27th, 28th and 29th editions].
I don't know if Dr. Palmer's Innate concept actually qualifies as
neuro-theology, but I thought you might be interested to know about it.
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
PS I was pleased to see you and your fellow medical doctors in India writing
about chiropractic manipulation. [Panagariya A, Kumawat BL, Singh R, Sukhani
P. J Assoc Physicians India. 2004 Jul;52:556: Total unilateral medullary
syndrome--a rare complication of chiropractic manipulation.]
Don't forget OBSTETRIC manipulation. It is performed by the most prolific
spinal manipulators - obstetricians - it is usually gruesome - and
neurologic sequelae are far more frequent.
The West has the world's obstetricians using semisitting and dorsal delivery
thereby routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and keeping birth canals
closed when babies get stuck.
With birth canals closed up to 30%, the West's obstetricians are pulling
with hands, forceps and vacuums.
Sometimes the West's obstetricians pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out
of tiny spinal cords
Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" have their spines
gruesomely wrenched.
ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed the "extra"
up to 30%.
The West's OBs also perform surgical batteries - slicing vaginas/abdomens en
masse (episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals maximally - even as
they close birth canals up to 30%.
See Pediatricians: What about DURING birth?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3142
I call Western-style obstetricians "the West's" OBs to accord with your
statement,
"We are paying a heavy price for going on a fast track imitating the West
and forgetting our values..."
http://vigyanprasar.com/news/newsdet.asp?newsdate=7/6/2004&newsno=1
Imitating the West can be fatal for some babies.
The West is not only robbing babies of room in the birth canal, it is
robbing children of their innate ability to rest on their feet for prolonged
periods.
RELEVANT QUOTES FROM LAST CENTURY...
"Dr. Markoe did not picture the original obstetric chair - namely,
squatting."
[Holmes, RW discussing Markoe JW. Posture in obstetrics. JAMA;
(Oct7)1916;67(15):1066]
"What is the really natural way that a woman should be delivered? Like the
natives of Africa, squatting down as if defaecating..."
[Joy NH. The squatting attitude in labour. BMJ (Jul2)1921:30]
In 1944, psychiatrist EA Strecker, MD indirectly suggested there may be
psychiatric ramifications of our culture-wide loss of a fundamental human
range of motion...
"Are we not a crossroads in the path of our civilization when it would be
well for us to emulate that tribe of Amazon River natives who, from time to
time, interrupt their customary routine of activities and squat on the
ground? Neither persuasion nor threat serves to move them until an alloted
time has elapsed. They declare they are waiting for their 'souls to catch
up with their bodies...'" [E.A. Strecker, MD. 1944 Presidential Address
before the American Psychiatric Association. Am J Psychiatry. 1944;101:1-8]
PROBLEM: Western culture ROBS the comfortable prolonged flat-footed
squatting ability.
As elderly adults, many Westerners can't easily rise from a chair as their
elderly counterparts in squatting cultures maintain the ability to rise from
a full squat. (I understand that Medicare is paying for motors in "ejection"
chairs if prescribed by a physician.)
As we stop The Great Birth Robbery - we might might want to
look into stopping The Great Squat Robbery. (British OB Jason Gardosi
once in effect blamed the former on the latter.)
See Two robberies: educators can stop them
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3047
See also: The Great Squat Robbery and UCI's Harry B. Skinner, MD, PhD
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3146
In 1999, Ambica Gulat wrote of childbirth in hospitals in India...
"Unfortunately, hospitals in countries like India continue to make a woman
lie down."
http://www.lifepositive.com/Body/natural-childbirth/childbirth-india.asp
Unfortunately, hospitals in countries like the US just make matters worse -
they close the birth canal the "extra" up to 30% WITH MORE FORCE - using
semisitting delivery...
PREGNANT WOMEN: You do NOT have to squat. It is easy to offer your baby
the "extra" up to 30% of
outlet area by simply rolling onto your side as you push your baby out.
JUST BEWARE: Some OBs and CNMwives let you "try" alternative delivery
positions - but move you back to semisitting or dorsal (close your birth
canal) for
the actual delivery.
ALSO BEWARE: It is STANDARD PRACTICE for OBs to keep birth canals closed
when babies get stuck - i.e. - OBs are pulling with forceps and vacuums -
with
birth canals senselessly closed...
LADIES: Talk to your OB or CNMwife about this today.
WHITE ELEPHANT FACT: Pregnant women should not have to ASK obstetricians
for the "extra" up to 30%.
Hopefully neurologists in India who are looking at rare complications of
chiropractic manipulation will also focus attention on the far more
frequent - and always gruesome - obstetric manipulation - and work to stop
it...
Thanks for reading.
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
This post will be archived for global access in the Google usenet archive.
Search http://groups.google.com for "Squatting, neuro-theology and the World
Health Organization"
obstetricians - routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and keeping birth
canals closed when babies get stuck. See quote below.
You do not have to squat to allow your birth canal to open the "extra" up to
30%. See the end of this post.
SQUATTING, NEURO-THEOLOGY AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
"[T]he World Health Organisation recently incorporat[ed] spiritual
well-being as the fourth facet of health, in addition to the physical,
mental and social well-being... [A] new field of neuro-theology...tries to
amalgamate science with philosophy and examines spirituality as more than a
mystical sense."
http://vigyanprasar.com/news/newsdet.asp?newsdate=7/6/2004&newsno=1
OPEN LETTER (archived for global access: see below)
Prof. Dr. Ashok Panagariya,
Department of Neurology
Sawai Man Singh Medical College
Jaipur 302004
INDIA
Ashok,
You were quoted in the article about "neuro-theology" cited above.
The chiropractic notion of Innate might perhaps be described as
"neuro-theology."
Dr. DD Palmer, founder of chiropractic hypothesized that health is the
result of nerve irritation by a spiritual force he named Innate.
Dr. Palmer said of this spiritual force (Innate):
"[S]o far I would not change...[the name Innate] except to replace it with
the name of...the Christian's God, the Hebrew's Helohim, the Mahometan's
Allah..." [1910:493]
If one assumes Innate/God is irritating the nervous system to cause health,
then if a patient is sick there is some noxious mechanical/chemical/psychic
irritant present: Chiropractic diagnosis is application of neurophysiology
to identify the noxious irritant (mech/chem/psychic) and chiropractic
treatment is the most conservative means of removing it.
See the definition of chiropractic in Dorland's Illustrated Medical
Dictionary [1988, 1994, 2000 (27th, 28th and 29th editions].
I don't know if Dr. Palmer's Innate concept actually qualifies as
neuro-theology, but I thought you might be interested to know about it.
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
PS I was pleased to see you and your fellow medical doctors in India writing
about chiropractic manipulation. [Panagariya A, Kumawat BL, Singh R, Sukhani
P. J Assoc Physicians India. 2004 Jul;52:556: Total unilateral medullary
syndrome--a rare complication of chiropractic manipulation.]
Don't forget OBSTETRIC manipulation. It is performed by the most prolific
spinal manipulators - obstetricians - it is usually gruesome - and
neurologic sequelae are far more frequent.
The West has the world's obstetricians using semisitting and dorsal delivery
thereby routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and keeping birth canals
closed when babies get stuck.
With birth canals closed up to 30%, the West's obstetricians are pulling
with hands, forceps and vacuums.
Sometimes the West's obstetricians pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out
of tiny spinal cords
Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" have their spines
gruesomely wrenched.
ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed the "extra"
up to 30%.
The West's OBs also perform surgical batteries - slicing vaginas/abdomens en
masse (episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals maximally - even as
they close birth canals up to 30%.
See Pediatricians: What about DURING birth?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3142
I call Western-style obstetricians "the West's" OBs to accord with your
statement,
"We are paying a heavy price for going on a fast track imitating the West
and forgetting our values..."
http://vigyanprasar.com/news/newsdet.asp?newsdate=7/6/2004&newsno=1
Imitating the West can be fatal for some babies.
The West is not only robbing babies of room in the birth canal, it is
robbing children of their innate ability to rest on their feet for prolonged
periods.
RELEVANT QUOTES FROM LAST CENTURY...
"Dr. Markoe did not picture the original obstetric chair - namely,
squatting."
[Holmes, RW discussing Markoe JW. Posture in obstetrics. JAMA;
(Oct7)1916;67(15):1066]
"What is the really natural way that a woman should be delivered? Like the
natives of Africa, squatting down as if defaecating..."
[Joy NH. The squatting attitude in labour. BMJ (Jul2)1921:30]
In 1944, psychiatrist EA Strecker, MD indirectly suggested there may be
psychiatric ramifications of our culture-wide loss of a fundamental human
range of motion...
"Are we not a crossroads in the path of our civilization when it would be
well for us to emulate that tribe of Amazon River natives who, from time to
time, interrupt their customary routine of activities and squat on the
ground? Neither persuasion nor threat serves to move them until an alloted
time has elapsed. They declare they are waiting for their 'souls to catch
up with their bodies...'" [E.A. Strecker, MD. 1944 Presidential Address
before the American Psychiatric Association. Am J Psychiatry. 1944;101:1-8]
PROBLEM: Western culture ROBS the comfortable prolonged flat-footed
squatting ability.
As elderly adults, many Westerners can't easily rise from a chair as their
elderly counterparts in squatting cultures maintain the ability to rise from
a full squat. (I understand that Medicare is paying for motors in "ejection"
chairs if prescribed by a physician.)
As we stop The Great Birth Robbery - we might might want to
look into stopping The Great Squat Robbery. (British OB Jason Gardosi
once in effect blamed the former on the latter.)
See Two robberies: educators can stop them
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3047
See also: The Great Squat Robbery and UCI's Harry B. Skinner, MD, PhD
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3146
In 1999, Ambica Gulat wrote of childbirth in hospitals in India...
"Unfortunately, hospitals in countries like India continue to make a woman
lie down."
http://www.lifepositive.com/Body/natural-childbirth/childbirth-india.asp
Unfortunately, hospitals in countries like the US just make matters worse -
they close the birth canal the "extra" up to 30% WITH MORE FORCE - using
semisitting delivery...
PREGNANT WOMEN: You do NOT have to squat. It is easy to offer your baby
the "extra" up to 30% of
outlet area by simply rolling onto your side as you push your baby out.
JUST BEWARE: Some OBs and CNMwives let you "try" alternative delivery
positions - but move you back to semisitting or dorsal (close your birth
canal) for
the actual delivery.
ALSO BEWARE: It is STANDARD PRACTICE for OBs to keep birth canals closed
when babies get stuck - i.e. - OBs are pulling with forceps and vacuums -
with
birth canals senselessly closed...
LADIES: Talk to your OB or CNMwife about this today.
WHITE ELEPHANT FACT: Pregnant women should not have to ASK obstetricians
for the "extra" up to 30%.
Hopefully neurologists in India who are looking at rare complications of
chiropractic manipulation will also focus attention on the far more
frequent - and always gruesome - obstetric manipulation - and work to stop
it...
Thanks for reading.
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
This post will be archived for global access in the Google usenet archive.
Search http://groups.google.com for "Squatting, neuro-theology and the World
Health Organization"