Todd Gastaldo
July 17th 03, 10:05 PM
First things first...
PREGNANT WOMEN: MDs are closing birth canals up to 30%. It's EASY to
allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%!
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! BUT - see WARNING,
WARNING, WARNING, in PS2 below...
Onward...
MOST BIRTH SPINAL MANIPULATION IS CONTRAINDICATED
Perhaps the MOST important lesson student doctors of chiropractic learn is
when NOT to manipulate the spine, as in,
"[Chiropractic spinal manipulation]...IF NOT CONTRAINDICATED, results in
greater short-term improvement than acupuncture or medication ."
--Prof. Dr. Reinhold "Ray" Muller, PhD and Lynton G.F. Giles, MSc., DC(C),
PhD (WAust) [Spine. 2003 Jul 15;28(14):1490-1502, PubMed abstract, emphasis
added.]
OPEN LETTER (archived for global access***)
Prof. Dr. Reinhold "Ray" Muller, PhD
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
James Cook University
Townsville
QLD 4811
AUSTRALIA
phone 0061-747-225710, fax 0061-747-715032,
e-mail: ;
http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/sphtm/phtm/staff/muller.htm
Lynton G.F. Giles, MSc., DC(C), PhD (WAust)
Director
Spinal Pain Unit
Townsville General Hospital <--OLD ADDRESS (see below)
Townsville
QLD
AUSTRALIA
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7178/261/a
Ray and Lynton,
MD (and MB)-obstetricians - the most prolific spinal manipulators - are
senselessly closing birth canals and GRUESOMELY manipulating most babies'
spines at birth.
ALL birth spinal manipulation is contraindicated when the birth canal is
closed. (And I do mean closed. To a breech baby with a trapped after-coming
head - to a baby suffering severe shoulder dystocia - the birth canal is
indeed closed. Incredibly, MD-obstetricians are KEEPING birth canals closed
when shoulders get stuck - even as they claim otherwise. See McRoberts
maneuver, mentioned toward the very end of this post.)
After Lynton's Spinal Pain Unit was moved out of the hospital, he wrote:
"The advantage of having a multidisciplinary team in a hospital
setting......that patients may be easily referred to specialists within
the hospital..."
http://www.badback.com.au/previous_articles_archived.asp?artid=46
ARRRGGGHHHH! MOST BABIES ARE THOUGHTLESSLY REFERRED TO SPECIALISTS WITHIN
HOSPITALS WHO ARE GRUESOMELY MANIPULATING MOST BABIES' SPINES!
Until hospital specialists called MD-obstetricians stop closing birth
canals, every hospital should have a Spinal Pain Unit - to PREVENT spinal
pain.
Lynton's Spinal Pain Unit should be moved back into a hospital.
CHIROPRACTIC PREVENTION
Dr. DD Palmer, Founder of chiropractic predicted:
""In the near future Chiropractic will be as much valued for its
preventative qualities as it now is for adjusting and relieving the cause
of ailments...Obstetrics is the art of midwifery...If the accoucheur is a
Chiropractor,
he can adjust...thereby preventing disease." [1910:638,789]
NON-spinal (educational/preventative) chiropractic adjustments - DD's
specialty - are all that is required...
I've asked American chiropractors for help in stopping MD-obstetricians from
closing birth canals...
See Chiro orthopedists and global UNREST - and babies...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=uyjQa.474%24Mc.20615%40newsread1.prod.itd.ear thlink.net
I hope Australian chiropractors will also help.
Thanks for reading,
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
PS1 NOTE: The "hospital advantage" quote from Lynton came from an article
archived by the Team at www.badback.com.au. That's where I learned that
Lynton's Spinal Pain Unit studies "chiropractic" spinal manipulation -
whatever that may be.
Regarding PREVENTION...
The Team at www.badback.com.au say:
"From PREVENTION to healing, or managing chronic back problems, we're here
to assist any way we can..."
--www.badback.com.au (emphasis added)
Team www.badback.com.au: Please help stop MDs from closing birth canals and
gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines at birth.
Copied to the Team at www.badback.com.au ("marketing personnel plus our
Physiotherapist - Emma West, and Naturopath - Greg Blain") via
PS2 PREGNANT WOMEN! It's EASY to open your birth canal an "extra" up to
30%!
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! PLEASE talk to your MD
about this NOW...
WARNING
WARNING
WARNING
WARNING: Some MDs will let women "try" side-lying and
other
"alternative" delivery positions - but they will move women back to
semisitting -
close their birth canals (!) at
the very worst possible moment (as the baby is coming out)...
See GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT - my invited poster presentation at a recent
obstetric congress co-sponsored by the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists/ACOG. (NOTE: GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT is on the web: Search
"GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT
Paciornik"...)
GRUESOME SPINAL MANIPULATION BY MDs (and MBs)...
MDs routinely pull "gently"/gruesomely on babies' heads sticking out
vaginas/birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
(ALL spinal manipulation of fetuses is gruesome with the birth canal closed
up to 30%.)
UNNECESSARY EPIDURALS...
MDs routinely cause uteri to PUSH with birth canals senselessly closed up to
30% and in many births MDs chemically whip uteri to push harder/VIOLENTLY -
with oxytocin and Cytotec - with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%!
No wonder some women literally BEG for epidurals!
UNNECESSARY FORCEPS/VACUUM EXTRACTIONS...
In 10 to 15% of births
MDs reach INSIDE vaginas - with forceps/vacuum extractors - and drag babies
out through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%!
Sometimes MDs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords!
HINDBRAIN HERNIATION...
MDs may occasionally be pulling the brain/cerebellum into the upper cervical
canal...
See Gastaldo's fibromyalgia hypothesis (Chiari/birth trauma)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=1K0Ka.10657
%24C83.1056213%40newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net
TRACTION OF BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD - TRACTION BIRTH TRAUMA IS COMMON!
"...type 1 Arnold-Chiari malformation
in six cases. A constellation of these abnormalities are best explained by
traction of brain and spinal cord of the subjects exerted during breech
delivery and further support the primary role of birth trauma in the genesis
of 'idiopathic hypopituitarism.'"
--Fujita K, Matsuo N, Mori O, Koda N, Mukai E, Okabe Y, Shirakawa N, Tamai
S, Itagane Y, Hibi I. [Eur J Pediatr. 1992 Apr;151(4):266-70.
PubMed abstract Comment in:
Eur J Pediatr. 1993 Feb;152(2):175.]
CHIARI SKULL SURGERY: FIBROMYALGICS STILL HOPING?
"We're very hopeful that this will be the first real, viable treatment for
many people," said Rae Gleason, director of the National Fibromyalgia
Research Association (NFRA) in Salem, Oregon. The NFRA is funding a $150,000
study to determine the percentage of fibromyalgia patients who have a Chiari
malformation or spinal cord compression.
--Spine, skull surgery may help many with CFIDS
By David Hoh
http://www.cfids.org/archives/1999/1999-3-article03.asp
SIDS...
It has been suggested in the medical literature that a small or distorted
posterior cranial fossa might be required for the Chiari malformation:
"These results support the opinion, which claims the
existence of underdevelopment of the occipital bone and posterior fossa in
patients with Chiari type I malformation."
[Karagoz F, Izgi N, Kapijcijoglu Sencer S.
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2002 Feb;144(2):165-71]
"[R]elationship between the skull base and...Chiari type I malformation
(CMI),*****key role in a small size of posterior cranial
fossa..."[Krupina NE, Beloded VM. [Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova.
2002;102(8):3-7. PubMed abstract]
It occurs to me that MDs "spraining" brain support structures at birth PLUS
iatrogenic positional plagiocephaly (to prevent SIDS^^^) - may cause a
smaller or distorted posterior cranial fossa (or a smaller brain case
overall) - and result in some cases of fibromyalgia (assuming some
fibromyalgia is related to Chiari)...
^^^See American Academy of Pediatrics/AAP quote below...
Of course, MDs "spraining" brain support structures - and mothers causing
positional plagiocephaly spontaneously - could also have been causing a
smaller or
distorted posterior cranial fossa (or a smaller brain case overall) all
along - and
some cases of fibromyalgia (assuming some fibromyalgia is related to
Chiari) all along...
Does anyone know whether positional plagiocephaly causes a smaller or
distorted posterior cranial fossa (or a smaller brain case overall)?
I'll cc: who writes: "In children with
positional head deformity (posterior plagiocephaly), the
occiput is flattened with corresponding facial asymmetry. The incidence of
positional head deformity increased dramatically between 1992 and 1999, and
now occurs in one of every 60 live births. One proposed cause of the
increased incidence of positional head deformity is the initiative to place
infants on their backs during sleep to prevent sudden infant death syndrome.
With early detection and intervention, most positional head deformities can
be treated conservatively with physical therapy or a head orthosis
("helmet").[Biggs W. Am Fam Physician. 2003 May 1;67(9):1953-6. PubMed
abstract]
^^^Quoting the American Academy of Pediatrics/AAP:
FLAT SKULL "ALMOST ALWAYS A BENIGN CONDITION"
"There is some suggestion that the incidence of babies developing a flat
spot on their occiputs may have increased since the incidence of prone
sleeping
has decreased. This is almost always a benign condition, which will
disappear within several months after the baby has begun to sit up..."
http://www.aap.org/new/sids/question.htm
TRACTION OF BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD - PRIMARY ROLE OF BIRTH TRAUMA...
Presidential Symposium: 'Role of the brainstem in migraine' September
13-16, 2003 XI Congress of the International Headache Society, Pallazo dei
Congressi, Rome, Italy
http://www.ihc2003.com
"...type 1 Arnold-Chiari malformation
in six cases. A constellation of these abnormalities are best explained by
traction of brain and spinal cord of the subjects exerted during breech
delivery and further support the primary role of birth trauma in the genesis
of 'idiopathic hypopituitarism.'"
--Fujita K, Matsuo N, Mori O, Koda N, Mukai E, Okabe Y, Shirakawa N, Tamai
S, Itagane Y, Hibi I. [Eur J Pediatr. 1992 Apr;151(4):266-70.
PubMed abstract Comment in:
Eur J Pediatr. 1993 Feb;152(2):175.]
What if distortion of the skull for several months makes it more difficult
for the brain to recover (retract fully into the brain case) following birth
trauma?
[i][i]
>>CAUTION ADVISED...John Oro, M.D., and Diane Mueller, N.D., who run the
University of Missouri Chiari Clinic, say fibromyalgia patients should be
cautious about assuming they may have Chiari malformation...First, Oro and
Mueller say, people who believe they may have Chiari malformation should
undergo a basic neurologic exam from a neurologist or neurosurgeon
experienced at diagnosing Chiari...If someone indeed has Chiari
malformation, this exam, and an MRI of the brain and brainstem, will reveal
it..."I think the lay public has become a little misled," says Mueller, a
nurse practitioner. "They're sure we're going to have a cure for
fibromyalgia."<<
--Fibromyalgia and Chiari Malformation
By Jeff Durbin
http://www.muhealth.org/~arthritis/articles/june01/chiari.html
Copied to: Jeff Durbin
"The fact that you've survived a surgery probably changes your physiology."
--John Oro, MD
The fact that a baby survives a TRAUMATIC TRACTION BIRTH probably changes
her/his physiology!
Copied to: John Oro, MD
Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
130 A P Green, DC330.00
One Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212 E-Mail:
Also via: Diane Mueller, ND, RN, C-FNP via
UNNECESSARY CESAREAN SECTIONS...
MDs close birth canals - CAUSE "cephalopelvic disproportion" - then perform
major abdominal surgeries called c-sections BEcause of "cephalopelvic
disproportion!
UNNECESSARY EPISIOTOMIES...
MDs routinely slash vaginas (euphemism "routine
episiotomy") -
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring that everything possible is being done to
OPEN birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals up to 30%!
MDs offer women "generous" episiotomies when the baby's shoulders get
stuck...
The American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists/ACOG
indirectly ADMITS that MDs are routinely closing birth canals - why *else*
would ACOG's Shoulder Dystocia video show MDs how to OPEN the birth canal
maximally when the shoulders get stuck?
Unfortunately, ACOG's Shoulder Dystocia video method of "opening" the
birth
canal maximally - KEEPS THE BIRTH CANAL CLOSED!
See Blame, Attorney Weisbrod and the 'God within' (our courts of law)...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Q28K8.883%2
4NG1.312%40newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net
MDs have blamed their bizarre birth-canal-closing behavior on the fact that
Western culture robs children of their innate ability to flat-footed squat
for prolonged periods.
^^^Incredibly no one squatted in Gardosi et al.'s "randomised controlled
trial of squatting." (!)
So stopping MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals MIGHT just help
Westen culture finally stop robbing children of 1) a chance to develop bony
"squatting" facets and 2) a chance to maintain their innate squatting
ability into adulthood.
In 2001, Eve-Line Boule, chercheur associé at CÉPAM wrote:
"[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 CÉPAM, the Great Squat Robbery (and mass obstetric crime)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=nfE47.192%241a5.105700%40dfiatx1-
snr1.gtei.net
In 1986, the late Arthur Guyton, MD wrote:
"Even such simple activities as sitting for a long time...can cause tissue
destruction...Cessation of blood
flow to the skin...usually...cause[s] pain...[within]...20 to 30 minutes"
(p. 594)...when the skin becomes painful as a result of the ischemia, the
person shifts weight unconsciously" (p. 592). [Guyton AC. Textbook of
Medical Physiology. 7th ed. Phil: W.B. Saunders 1986]
Most humans on the planet can squat for hours, nearly motionless...
Chairdwelling children squirm in their chairs as they LOSE this precious
innate rest posture...
In 1987, Newsweek reported that children can only sit still for 15 minutes
at a time in their chairs:
"Educators say that many five-year olds really can't handle a highly
academic program. They're still learning how to sit still for more than
15 minutes at a time." [Kantrowitz B, Wingert P. The big grind in
kindergarten. Newsweek (Aug10)1987. From Gastaldo's peer review of the
AHCPR-sponsored Low Back Guideline draft.]
WHY are we forcing children to sit in chairs for so long?!
Why are we forcing ADULTS to sit in chairs for so long?!
Why are we forcing women to birth with their birth canals closed up to 30%?!
See again: Chiro orthopedists and global UNREST - and babies...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=uyjQa.474%24Mc.20615%40newsread1.prod.itd.ear thlink.net
I do hope American and Australian chiropractors (and anyone else reading)
will help stop MDs from closing birth canals.
Thanks for reading, everyone,
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
***This Open Letter will be archived for global access within 24 hours.
Search http://groups.google.com for "Most birth spinal manipulation
contraindicated"...
PREGNANT WOMEN: MDs are closing birth canals up to 30%. It's EASY to
allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%!
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! BUT - see WARNING,
WARNING, WARNING, in PS2 below...
Onward...
MOST BIRTH SPINAL MANIPULATION IS CONTRAINDICATED
Perhaps the MOST important lesson student doctors of chiropractic learn is
when NOT to manipulate the spine, as in,
"[Chiropractic spinal manipulation]...IF NOT CONTRAINDICATED, results in
greater short-term improvement than acupuncture or medication ."
--Prof. Dr. Reinhold "Ray" Muller, PhD and Lynton G.F. Giles, MSc., DC(C),
PhD (WAust) [Spine. 2003 Jul 15;28(14):1490-1502, PubMed abstract, emphasis
added.]
OPEN LETTER (archived for global access***)
Prof. Dr. Reinhold "Ray" Muller, PhD
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
James Cook University
Townsville
QLD 4811
AUSTRALIA
phone 0061-747-225710, fax 0061-747-715032,
e-mail: ;
http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/sphtm/phtm/staff/muller.htm
Lynton G.F. Giles, MSc., DC(C), PhD (WAust)
Director
Spinal Pain Unit
Townsville General Hospital <--OLD ADDRESS (see below)
Townsville
QLD
AUSTRALIA
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7178/261/a
Ray and Lynton,
MD (and MB)-obstetricians - the most prolific spinal manipulators - are
senselessly closing birth canals and GRUESOMELY manipulating most babies'
spines at birth.
ALL birth spinal manipulation is contraindicated when the birth canal is
closed. (And I do mean closed. To a breech baby with a trapped after-coming
head - to a baby suffering severe shoulder dystocia - the birth canal is
indeed closed. Incredibly, MD-obstetricians are KEEPING birth canals closed
when shoulders get stuck - even as they claim otherwise. See McRoberts
maneuver, mentioned toward the very end of this post.)
After Lynton's Spinal Pain Unit was moved out of the hospital, he wrote:
"The advantage of having a multidisciplinary team in a hospital
setting......that patients may be easily referred to specialists within
the hospital..."
http://www.badback.com.au/previous_articles_archived.asp?artid=46
ARRRGGGHHHH! MOST BABIES ARE THOUGHTLESSLY REFERRED TO SPECIALISTS WITHIN
HOSPITALS WHO ARE GRUESOMELY MANIPULATING MOST BABIES' SPINES!
Until hospital specialists called MD-obstetricians stop closing birth
canals, every hospital should have a Spinal Pain Unit - to PREVENT spinal
pain.
Lynton's Spinal Pain Unit should be moved back into a hospital.
CHIROPRACTIC PREVENTION
Dr. DD Palmer, Founder of chiropractic predicted:
""In the near future Chiropractic will be as much valued for its
preventative qualities as it now is for adjusting and relieving the cause
of ailments...Obstetrics is the art of midwifery...If the accoucheur is a
Chiropractor,
he can adjust...thereby preventing disease." [1910:638,789]
NON-spinal (educational/preventative) chiropractic adjustments - DD's
specialty - are all that is required...
I've asked American chiropractors for help in stopping MD-obstetricians from
closing birth canals...
See Chiro orthopedists and global UNREST - and babies...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=uyjQa.474%24Mc.20615%40newsread1.prod.itd.ear thlink.net
I hope Australian chiropractors will also help.
Thanks for reading,
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
PS1 NOTE: The "hospital advantage" quote from Lynton came from an article
archived by the Team at www.badback.com.au. That's where I learned that
Lynton's Spinal Pain Unit studies "chiropractic" spinal manipulation -
whatever that may be.
Regarding PREVENTION...
The Team at www.badback.com.au say:
"From PREVENTION to healing, or managing chronic back problems, we're here
to assist any way we can..."
--www.badback.com.au (emphasis added)
Team www.badback.com.au: Please help stop MDs from closing birth canals and
gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines at birth.
Copied to the Team at www.badback.com.au ("marketing personnel plus our
Physiotherapist - Emma West, and Naturopath - Greg Blain") via
PS2 PREGNANT WOMEN! It's EASY to open your birth canal an "extra" up to
30%!
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! PLEASE talk to your MD
about this NOW...
WARNING
WARNING
WARNING
WARNING: Some MDs will let women "try" side-lying and
other
"alternative" delivery positions - but they will move women back to
semisitting -
close their birth canals (!) at
the very worst possible moment (as the baby is coming out)...
See GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT - my invited poster presentation at a recent
obstetric congress co-sponsored by the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists/ACOG. (NOTE: GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT is on the web: Search
"GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT
Paciornik"...)
GRUESOME SPINAL MANIPULATION BY MDs (and MBs)...
MDs routinely pull "gently"/gruesomely on babies' heads sticking out
vaginas/birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
(ALL spinal manipulation of fetuses is gruesome with the birth canal closed
up to 30%.)
UNNECESSARY EPIDURALS...
MDs routinely cause uteri to PUSH with birth canals senselessly closed up to
30% and in many births MDs chemically whip uteri to push harder/VIOLENTLY -
with oxytocin and Cytotec - with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%!
No wonder some women literally BEG for epidurals!
UNNECESSARY FORCEPS/VACUUM EXTRACTIONS...
In 10 to 15% of births
MDs reach INSIDE vaginas - with forceps/vacuum extractors - and drag babies
out through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%!
Sometimes MDs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords!
HINDBRAIN HERNIATION...
MDs may occasionally be pulling the brain/cerebellum into the upper cervical
canal...
See Gastaldo's fibromyalgia hypothesis (Chiari/birth trauma)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=1K0Ka.10657
%24C83.1056213%40newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net
TRACTION OF BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD - TRACTION BIRTH TRAUMA IS COMMON!
"...type 1 Arnold-Chiari malformation
in six cases. A constellation of these abnormalities are best explained by
traction of brain and spinal cord of the subjects exerted during breech
delivery and further support the primary role of birth trauma in the genesis
of 'idiopathic hypopituitarism.'"
--Fujita K, Matsuo N, Mori O, Koda N, Mukai E, Okabe Y, Shirakawa N, Tamai
S, Itagane Y, Hibi I. [Eur J Pediatr. 1992 Apr;151(4):266-70.
PubMed abstract Comment in:
Eur J Pediatr. 1993 Feb;152(2):175.]
CHIARI SKULL SURGERY: FIBROMYALGICS STILL HOPING?
"We're very hopeful that this will be the first real, viable treatment for
many people," said Rae Gleason, director of the National Fibromyalgia
Research Association (NFRA) in Salem, Oregon. The NFRA is funding a $150,000
study to determine the percentage of fibromyalgia patients who have a Chiari
malformation or spinal cord compression.
--Spine, skull surgery may help many with CFIDS
By David Hoh
http://www.cfids.org/archives/1999/1999-3-article03.asp
SIDS...
It has been suggested in the medical literature that a small or distorted
posterior cranial fossa might be required for the Chiari malformation:
"These results support the opinion, which claims the
existence of underdevelopment of the occipital bone and posterior fossa in
patients with Chiari type I malformation."
[Karagoz F, Izgi N, Kapijcijoglu Sencer S.
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2002 Feb;144(2):165-71]
"[R]elationship between the skull base and...Chiari type I malformation
(CMI),*****key role in a small size of posterior cranial
fossa..."[Krupina NE, Beloded VM. [Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova.
2002;102(8):3-7. PubMed abstract]
It occurs to me that MDs "spraining" brain support structures at birth PLUS
iatrogenic positional plagiocephaly (to prevent SIDS^^^) - may cause a
smaller or distorted posterior cranial fossa (or a smaller brain case
overall) - and result in some cases of fibromyalgia (assuming some
fibromyalgia is related to Chiari)...
^^^See American Academy of Pediatrics/AAP quote below...
Of course, MDs "spraining" brain support structures - and mothers causing
positional plagiocephaly spontaneously - could also have been causing a
smaller or
distorted posterior cranial fossa (or a smaller brain case overall) all
along - and
some cases of fibromyalgia (assuming some fibromyalgia is related to
Chiari) all along...
Does anyone know whether positional plagiocephaly causes a smaller or
distorted posterior cranial fossa (or a smaller brain case overall)?
I'll cc: who writes: "In children with
positional head deformity (posterior plagiocephaly), the
occiput is flattened with corresponding facial asymmetry. The incidence of
positional head deformity increased dramatically between 1992 and 1999, and
now occurs in one of every 60 live births. One proposed cause of the
increased incidence of positional head deformity is the initiative to place
infants on their backs during sleep to prevent sudden infant death syndrome.
With early detection and intervention, most positional head deformities can
be treated conservatively with physical therapy or a head orthosis
("helmet").[Biggs W. Am Fam Physician. 2003 May 1;67(9):1953-6. PubMed
abstract]
^^^Quoting the American Academy of Pediatrics/AAP:
FLAT SKULL "ALMOST ALWAYS A BENIGN CONDITION"
"There is some suggestion that the incidence of babies developing a flat
spot on their occiputs may have increased since the incidence of prone
sleeping
has decreased. This is almost always a benign condition, which will
disappear within several months after the baby has begun to sit up..."
http://www.aap.org/new/sids/question.htm
TRACTION OF BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD - PRIMARY ROLE OF BIRTH TRAUMA...
Presidential Symposium: 'Role of the brainstem in migraine' September
13-16, 2003 XI Congress of the International Headache Society, Pallazo dei
Congressi, Rome, Italy
http://www.ihc2003.com
"...type 1 Arnold-Chiari malformation
in six cases. A constellation of these abnormalities are best explained by
traction of brain and spinal cord of the subjects exerted during breech
delivery and further support the primary role of birth trauma in the genesis
of 'idiopathic hypopituitarism.'"
--Fujita K, Matsuo N, Mori O, Koda N, Mukai E, Okabe Y, Shirakawa N, Tamai
S, Itagane Y, Hibi I. [Eur J Pediatr. 1992 Apr;151(4):266-70.
PubMed abstract Comment in:
Eur J Pediatr. 1993 Feb;152(2):175.]
What if distortion of the skull for several months makes it more difficult
for the brain to recover (retract fully into the brain case) following birth
trauma?
[i][i]
>>CAUTION ADVISED...John Oro, M.D., and Diane Mueller, N.D., who run the
University of Missouri Chiari Clinic, say fibromyalgia patients should be
cautious about assuming they may have Chiari malformation...First, Oro and
Mueller say, people who believe they may have Chiari malformation should
undergo a basic neurologic exam from a neurologist or neurosurgeon
experienced at diagnosing Chiari...If someone indeed has Chiari
malformation, this exam, and an MRI of the brain and brainstem, will reveal
it..."I think the lay public has become a little misled," says Mueller, a
nurse practitioner. "They're sure we're going to have a cure for
fibromyalgia."<<
--Fibromyalgia and Chiari Malformation
By Jeff Durbin
http://www.muhealth.org/~arthritis/articles/june01/chiari.html
Copied to: Jeff Durbin
"The fact that you've survived a surgery probably changes your physiology."
--John Oro, MD
The fact that a baby survives a TRAUMATIC TRACTION BIRTH probably changes
her/his physiology!
Copied to: John Oro, MD
Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
130 A P Green, DC330.00
One Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212 E-Mail:
Also via: Diane Mueller, ND, RN, C-FNP via
UNNECESSARY CESAREAN SECTIONS...
MDs close birth canals - CAUSE "cephalopelvic disproportion" - then perform
major abdominal surgeries called c-sections BEcause of "cephalopelvic
disproportion!
UNNECESSARY EPISIOTOMIES...
MDs routinely slash vaginas (euphemism "routine
episiotomy") -
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring that everything possible is being done to
OPEN birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals up to 30%!
MDs offer women "generous" episiotomies when the baby's shoulders get
stuck...
The American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists/ACOG
indirectly ADMITS that MDs are routinely closing birth canals - why *else*
would ACOG's Shoulder Dystocia video show MDs how to OPEN the birth canal
maximally when the shoulders get stuck?
Unfortunately, ACOG's Shoulder Dystocia video method of "opening" the
birth
canal maximally - KEEPS THE BIRTH CANAL CLOSED!
See Blame, Attorney Weisbrod and the 'God within' (our courts of law)...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Q28K8.883%2
4NG1.312%40newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net
MDs have blamed their bizarre birth-canal-closing behavior on the fact that
Western culture robs children of their innate ability to flat-footed squat
for prolonged periods.
^^^Incredibly no one squatted in Gardosi et al.'s "randomised controlled
trial of squatting." (!)
So stopping MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals MIGHT just help
Westen culture finally stop robbing children of 1) a chance to develop bony
"squatting" facets and 2) a chance to maintain their innate squatting
ability into adulthood.
In 2001, Eve-Line Boule, chercheur associé at CÉPAM wrote:
"[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 CÉPAM, the Great Squat Robbery (and mass obstetric crime)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=nfE47.192%241a5.105700%40dfiatx1-
snr1.gtei.net
In 1986, the late Arthur Guyton, MD wrote:
"Even such simple activities as sitting for a long time...can cause tissue
destruction...Cessation of blood
flow to the skin...usually...cause[s] pain...[within]...20 to 30 minutes"
(p. 594)...when the skin becomes painful as a result of the ischemia, the
person shifts weight unconsciously" (p. 592). [Guyton AC. Textbook of
Medical Physiology. 7th ed. Phil: W.B. Saunders 1986]
Most humans on the planet can squat for hours, nearly motionless...
Chairdwelling children squirm in their chairs as they LOSE this precious
innate rest posture...
In 1987, Newsweek reported that children can only sit still for 15 minutes
at a time in their chairs:
"Educators say that many five-year olds really can't handle a highly
academic program. They're still learning how to sit still for more than
15 minutes at a time." [Kantrowitz B, Wingert P. The big grind in
kindergarten. Newsweek (Aug10)1987. From Gastaldo's peer review of the
AHCPR-sponsored Low Back Guideline draft.]
WHY are we forcing children to sit in chairs for so long?!
Why are we forcing ADULTS to sit in chairs for so long?!
Why are we forcing women to birth with their birth canals closed up to 30%?!
See again: Chiro orthopedists and global UNREST - and babies...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=uyjQa.474%24Mc.20615%40newsread1.prod.itd.ear thlink.net
I do hope American and Australian chiropractors (and anyone else reading)
will help stop MDs from closing birth canals.
Thanks for reading, everyone,
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
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