Todd Gastaldo
August 5th 03, 12:32 AM
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%!
NOTE: You DON'T have to squat to allow your birth canal to open maximally.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out. BUT - see WARNING,
WARNING, WARNING, below...
DO SQUATTERS SQUIRM AS MUCH AS CHAIRDWELLERS?
I described as "motionless" the children described by Sarah Key,
physiotherapist:
"...Children can sit for hours, inert and hunched over a computer screen,
their only
physical effort being a couple of keystrokes and pushing the mouse..."
http://www.sarahkey.com/thought.cfm?ID=41
Sarah (and many others) think that sitting motionless for hours is bad for
the spine.
I posited that it is sitting motionless for hours on CHAIRS that is bad for
the spine.
I indicated that kids can SQUAT motionless for hours with no ill effect...
See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084
Rich Shewmaker replied:
"Any kid who's motionless for hours is comatose or dead."
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=yNOdnU4468Y7HbOiRTvU2Q%40ilhawaii.net
Rich brings up a good point.
I only said what I said because people have told me that people in squatting
cultures can squat motionless for hours or use the squat as a work posture,
moving as needed without rising from the squat.
One of the first persons to tell me this was Canadian orthopedic surgeon W.
Harry Fahrni, MD. (Fahrni has a photograph of each of these uses of the
squatting posture in Orth Clin N Am 1975;6(1):93-103.)
In contrast to REPORTEDLY motionless squatters, chairdwellers squirm in
their chairs...
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]
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.]
NOTE: The just mentioned AHCPR-sponsored panel (mostly MDs) ignored my peer
review efforts and blithely concluded that "Sitting is safe." : (
Perhaps squatters shift unconsciously too - just not (or not nearly) as
much?
Anyone know for sure?
BOTTOMLINE...
REGARDLESS whether squatters squirm while squatting as much as chairdwellers
squirm while chairdwelling...
I am quite passionate about ending The Great Squat Robbery.
Why *are* we letting Western culture rob children of a fundamental human
rest posture?
More urgently, why are we letting MDs (Gardosi et al.) close birth canals up
to 30% and blame The Great Squat Robbery?
(Gardosi et al. said in effect that MDs have to place women supine or
semisitting - close their birth canals - because of The Great Squat Robbery.
Indeed, as a consequence of Gardosi et al.'s erroneous assumption, no woman
squatted in their 1989 "randomised controlled trial of squatting.")
Thanks for reading,
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
PS PREGNANT WOMEN (I say again): MDs are closing birth canals up to 30%.
It's EASY to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%!
You don't have to squat to do it!
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! BUT - see WARNING,
WARNING, WARNING at the very end of this post...
MDs KNOW THEY ARE COMMITTING THE CRIME...
"It is established obstetric teaching that a narrow pelvic outlet
predisposes to a difficult vaginal delivery..."
--Ass-Ärztin Dr. Andrea Froschauer-Frudinger et al. via
[Frudinger et al. Br J Obstet Gynaecol
2002;109(11):1207-12]
PHYSICIANS ARE **LYING** - BABIES BE DAMNED...
Physicians are now saying, "*We* aren't damaging babies - babies are being
damaged
BEFORE birth."
Frances Cowan, PhD and colleagues mention an interesting development:
"Until recently hypoxic-ischaemic events in the perinatal period were
assumed to be the main cause for early neonatal encephalopathy...[but now
antenatal factors are being implicated]..."
[Cowan F, Rutherford M, Groenedaal F, Eken P, Mercuri E, Bydder GM,
Meiners LC, Dubowitz LMS, de Vries LS, Origin and timing of brain lesions in
term infants with neonatal encephalopathy. The Lancet
(Mar1)2003;361:736-42.]
I suspect some MD researchers began FRAUDULENTLY implicating antenatal
events back in the 1980s - back when the public started learning of the
radiographic evidence that squatting opens birth canals up to 30%.
FACT: MDs began overtly LYING when in the early 1990s I began pointing
out that the phrase "squatting opens birth canals up to 30%" -
usefully translated - means MDs have been CLOSING birth canals up to 30%.
Cowan et al. write:
"Our findings show that more than 90% of term infants
with neonatal encephalopathy...without specific syndromes or major
congenital defects, had evidence of perinatally acquired insults...Reasons
for injuries of perinatal onset remain poorly understood."
Even if MDs (and MBs) are NOT causing neonatal encephalopathy by closing
birth canals - they should STOP closing birth canals...
I've often pointed out that the obivous massive MD birth crime (MDs
senselessly closing birth canals) becomes most obvious when one
realizes that MDs are slashing vaginas en masse (euphemism "routine
episiotomy") surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring they are doing everything
possible to OPEN birth canals even as they CLOSE birth canals.
See again: Squatting, Nurse Jenn's genital piercing, the Anti-Vagina - and
Kingston General's Human Mobility Centre...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=zdiW9.993%24KG5.97861%40newsread1.prod.itd.ea rthlink.net
Nurse Jenn *wanted* her vagina modified.
I submit
that most women *don't* want their vaginas modified - at least not at
birth - and they certainly don't want their babies' brains modified by
MD-obstetricians senselessly closing birth canals...
Two Canadian MDs - Erica Eason and Perle Feldman -
recommend
"consumer
pressures" to stop the mass vagina slashing:
"[I]t is clear that episiotomy is a MAJOR contributor to trauma,
pain, and suffering in parturients. Changes in practice can be
effectively introduced through CONSUMER PRESSURES...Routine
episiotomy remains common even in teaching institutions. 'Who
cares about a little cut?' was a frequent comment from
obstetricians...Given the evidence, there should be widespread
abandonment of routine episiotomy "
Erica Eason, MDCM, FRCSC and Perle Feldman, MDCM, FCFP
Obstet Gynecol 2000;95:616-8. Emphasis added.
Whereas Erica and Perle recommend "consumer pressures"...
I recommend "consumer PRESSURIZERS" - THE POLICE...
I just want MD-obstetricians to stop their massive crime. I am in
favor of pardons in advance for MDs. MDs are just academic
prime cuts forced through this culture's most powerful mental meatgrinder -
medical school.
MORE obvious criminal negligence by MDs...
At the University of Hawaii Med School...
"Most first year residents finish the year having performed over 50 cesarean
sections as the primary surgeon."
http://hawaiimed.hawaii.edu/residency_programs/obgyn5.html
Arrrrggghhh! This is obvious criminal negligence IF - as is the case all
over the world - women are forced into "failure to progress" on their
backs/butts - on their sacra - closing their birth canals up to 30%.
Cephalopelvic disproportion/failure to progress is often the reason given
for cesareans.
Sometimes cesarean section is necessary - but MDs are CAUSING cephalopelvic
disproportion/failure to progress - then "performing" cesarean sections
BEcause of cephalopelvic disproportion/failure to progress...
MDs are also forcing uteri to push with birth canals closed up to 30% - then
chemically whipping uteri to push VIOLENTLY - with oxytocin/Cytotec - with
birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
No wonder women beg for epidurals!
MDs also pull on babies' heads with their hands in most vaginal births -
with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
In some institutions - in 26% of births (!) - MDs reach INSIDE the vagina -
with forceps/vacuum extractors - and pull babies out by their skulls -
through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
Sometimes MDs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords!
Incredibly, MDs have blamed their bizarre birth-canal-closing behavior on
the West's loss of a fundamental human rest posture!
See Gardosi et al.'s 1989 Lancet "controlled trial of squatting" - where
nobody squatted...
See also: 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
MD-psychiatrists should be just as interested in DC-orthopedists in stopping
The Great Squat Robbery...
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.
See again: Chiro orthopedists and global UNREST, URL above.
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"...)
***This post will be instantly archived for global access at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2088.
Within 24 hours it
will be in the google archive. Search
http://groups.google.com for "Do squatters squirm as much as chairdwellers?"
your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%!
NOTE: You DON'T have to squat to allow your birth canal to open maximally.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out. BUT - see WARNING,
WARNING, WARNING, below...
DO SQUATTERS SQUIRM AS MUCH AS CHAIRDWELLERS?
I described as "motionless" the children described by Sarah Key,
physiotherapist:
"...Children can sit for hours, inert and hunched over a computer screen,
their only
physical effort being a couple of keystrokes and pushing the mouse..."
http://www.sarahkey.com/thought.cfm?ID=41
Sarah (and many others) think that sitting motionless for hours is bad for
the spine.
I posited that it is sitting motionless for hours on CHAIRS that is bad for
the spine.
I indicated that kids can SQUAT motionless for hours with no ill effect...
See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084
Rich Shewmaker replied:
"Any kid who's motionless for hours is comatose or dead."
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=yNOdnU4468Y7HbOiRTvU2Q%40ilhawaii.net
Rich brings up a good point.
I only said what I said because people have told me that people in squatting
cultures can squat motionless for hours or use the squat as a work posture,
moving as needed without rising from the squat.
One of the first persons to tell me this was Canadian orthopedic surgeon W.
Harry Fahrni, MD. (Fahrni has a photograph of each of these uses of the
squatting posture in Orth Clin N Am 1975;6(1):93-103.)
In contrast to REPORTEDLY motionless squatters, chairdwellers squirm in
their chairs...
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]
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.]
NOTE: The just mentioned AHCPR-sponsored panel (mostly MDs) ignored my peer
review efforts and blithely concluded that "Sitting is safe." : (
Perhaps squatters shift unconsciously too - just not (or not nearly) as
much?
Anyone know for sure?
BOTTOMLINE...
REGARDLESS whether squatters squirm while squatting as much as chairdwellers
squirm while chairdwelling...
I am quite passionate about ending The Great Squat Robbery.
Why *are* we letting Western culture rob children of a fundamental human
rest posture?
More urgently, why are we letting MDs (Gardosi et al.) close birth canals up
to 30% and blame The Great Squat Robbery?
(Gardosi et al. said in effect that MDs have to place women supine or
semisitting - close their birth canals - because of The Great Squat Robbery.
Indeed, as a consequence of Gardosi et al.'s erroneous assumption, no woman
squatted in their 1989 "randomised controlled trial of squatting.")
Thanks for reading,
Sincerely,
Todd
Dr. Gastaldo
PS PREGNANT WOMEN (I say again): MDs are closing birth canals up to 30%.
It's EASY to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%!
You don't have to squat to do it!
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! BUT - see WARNING,
WARNING, WARNING at the very end of this post...
MDs KNOW THEY ARE COMMITTING THE CRIME...
"It is established obstetric teaching that a narrow pelvic outlet
predisposes to a difficult vaginal delivery..."
--Ass-Ärztin Dr. Andrea Froschauer-Frudinger et al. via
[Frudinger et al. Br J Obstet Gynaecol
2002;109(11):1207-12]
PHYSICIANS ARE **LYING** - BABIES BE DAMNED...
Physicians are now saying, "*We* aren't damaging babies - babies are being
damaged
BEFORE birth."
Frances Cowan, PhD and colleagues mention an interesting development:
"Until recently hypoxic-ischaemic events in the perinatal period were
assumed to be the main cause for early neonatal encephalopathy...[but now
antenatal factors are being implicated]..."
[Cowan F, Rutherford M, Groenedaal F, Eken P, Mercuri E, Bydder GM,
Meiners LC, Dubowitz LMS, de Vries LS, Origin and timing of brain lesions in
term infants with neonatal encephalopathy. The Lancet
(Mar1)2003;361:736-42.]
I suspect some MD researchers began FRAUDULENTLY implicating antenatal
events back in the 1980s - back when the public started learning of the
radiographic evidence that squatting opens birth canals up to 30%.
FACT: MDs began overtly LYING when in the early 1990s I began pointing
out that the phrase "squatting opens birth canals up to 30%" -
usefully translated - means MDs have been CLOSING birth canals up to 30%.
Cowan et al. write:
"Our findings show that more than 90% of term infants
with neonatal encephalopathy...without specific syndromes or major
congenital defects, had evidence of perinatally acquired insults...Reasons
for injuries of perinatal onset remain poorly understood."
Even if MDs (and MBs) are NOT causing neonatal encephalopathy by closing
birth canals - they should STOP closing birth canals...
I've often pointed out that the obivous massive MD birth crime (MDs
senselessly closing birth canals) becomes most obvious when one
realizes that MDs are slashing vaginas en masse (euphemism "routine
episiotomy") surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring they are doing everything
possible to OPEN birth canals even as they CLOSE birth canals.
See again: Squatting, Nurse Jenn's genital piercing, the Anti-Vagina - and
Kingston General's Human Mobility Centre...
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=zdiW9.993%24KG5.97861%40newsread1.prod.itd.ea rthlink.net
Nurse Jenn *wanted* her vagina modified.
I submit
that most women *don't* want their vaginas modified - at least not at
birth - and they certainly don't want their babies' brains modified by
MD-obstetricians senselessly closing birth canals...
Two Canadian MDs - Erica Eason and Perle Feldman -
recommend
"consumer
pressures" to stop the mass vagina slashing:
"[I]t is clear that episiotomy is a MAJOR contributor to trauma,
pain, and suffering in parturients. Changes in practice can be
effectively introduced through CONSUMER PRESSURES...Routine
episiotomy remains common even in teaching institutions. 'Who
cares about a little cut?' was a frequent comment from
obstetricians...Given the evidence, there should be widespread
abandonment of routine episiotomy "
Erica Eason, MDCM, FRCSC and Perle Feldman, MDCM, FCFP
Obstet Gynecol 2000;95:616-8. Emphasis added.
Whereas Erica and Perle recommend "consumer pressures"...
I recommend "consumer PRESSURIZERS" - THE POLICE...
I just want MD-obstetricians to stop their massive crime. I am in
favor of pardons in advance for MDs. MDs are just academic
prime cuts forced through this culture's most powerful mental meatgrinder -
medical school.
MORE obvious criminal negligence by MDs...
At the University of Hawaii Med School...
"Most first year residents finish the year having performed over 50 cesarean
sections as the primary surgeon."
http://hawaiimed.hawaii.edu/residency_programs/obgyn5.html
Arrrrggghhh! This is obvious criminal negligence IF - as is the case all
over the world - women are forced into "failure to progress" on their
backs/butts - on their sacra - closing their birth canals up to 30%.
Cephalopelvic disproportion/failure to progress is often the reason given
for cesareans.
Sometimes cesarean section is necessary - but MDs are CAUSING cephalopelvic
disproportion/failure to progress - then "performing" cesarean sections
BEcause of cephalopelvic disproportion/failure to progress...
MDs are also forcing uteri to push with birth canals closed up to 30% - then
chemically whipping uteri to push VIOLENTLY - with oxytocin/Cytotec - with
birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
No wonder women beg for epidurals!
MDs also pull on babies' heads with their hands in most vaginal births -
with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
In some institutions - in 26% of births (!) - MDs reach INSIDE the vagina -
with forceps/vacuum extractors - and pull babies out by their skulls -
through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.
Sometimes MDs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords!
Incredibly, MDs have blamed their bizarre birth-canal-closing behavior on
the West's loss of a fundamental human rest posture!
See Gardosi et al.'s 1989 Lancet "controlled trial of squatting" - where
nobody squatted...
See also: 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
MD-psychiatrists should be just as interested in DC-orthopedists in stopping
The Great Squat Robbery...
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.
See again: Chiro orthopedists and global UNREST, URL above.
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"...)
***This post will be instantly archived for global access at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2088.
Within 24 hours it
will be in the google archive. Search
http://groups.google.com for "Do squatters squirm as much as chairdwellers?"