Is Trigon (Anthem) pushing NSAIDS in pregnancy? (also: Bob Woolery, DC publishes Gastaldo, risks censorship by Dubin/Zaleski)

PREGNANT WOMEN INSURED BY TRIGON/ANTHEM BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD:

ARE YOU EXPERIENCING BACK PAIN? You may be being denied access to
chiropractic-style manipulation for your low back pain. My personal
experience while still in spinal manipulation practice? Spinal manipulation
was GREAT for pregnant women with low back pain! Pregnant women are SO easy
to adjust!

WARNING - if the MD advises NSAIDS and does not offer the chiropractic-style
spinal manipulation option - a fraud is occuring. Trigon (now Anthem)
rewrote federally-sponsored guidelines and deleted mention of
chiropractic-style spinal manipulation. If you are insured by ANY Blue
Cross Blue Shield provider - you may be affected by this fraud. This may
seem a small thing to those not experiencing low back pain; but most back
pain sufferers who have experienced relief from back pain following a
chiropractic adjustment might agree with me that this is no small thing -
ESPECIALLY since drugs and surgery should always be a last resort.

See Rule 302, Birth and Trigon/Anthem (Glasscock) - and ACOG's Willett
LeHew, MD
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2252

RULE 302 AUTHOR MICHAEL SCHROEDER: If you are reading this... Is telling
pregnant women that MDs are senselessly closing birth canals outside the
chiro scope of practice in California? See the COINCIDENCE below.

BOB WOOLERY, DC once commented on "my" biomechanics - now published in
Williams Obstetrics at my request^^^...

^^^NOTE: Though the authors of Williams Obstetrics published "my"
biomechanics at my request, they left in their text (in the same paragraph!)
the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to their text!

SAID BOB, "Gastaldo is right damn it!" - or words to that effect...

I *am* right about the grisly biomechanics of semisitting and dorsal
delivery.

I *am* right to persistently protest MDs senselessly closing birth canals
and gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines.

People who think I am wrong - or people who have changed their opinion -
Bob? - please send substantive criticism. BE ADVISED: As we drag our feet
on this matter, thousands of babies are being spinal manipulated -
VIOLENTLY/GRUESOMELY pushed and pulled through birth canals senselessly
closed up to 30%. Babies are DYING - or "just" getting paralyzed - or
"just" subluxated - as MDs senselessly close birth canals. WHY are chiros -
and "chiropractic" attorneys - dragging their feet on this matter?!

An NSAID segueway for chiros - to help them get interested in stopping MDs
from closing birth canals...

True CHIROPRACTIC doctors *must* start looking at the ACA v. TRIGON (now
Anthem) lawsuit from the perspective of MD treatement of PREGNANT WOMEN with
NSAIDS...

See PS2 below

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2253)

Bob Woolery, DC


Bob,

Sorry to complain but you changed the subject line of the post I asked you
to forward.

You wrote: "Fw: From Todd Gastaldo: a short, for him, mostly relevant
post" - and deleted my subject line.

Please realize...

The Dubin/Zaleski censored version of chirolist is ostensibly
"unmoderated.".

Cronshaw said just before Dziuba censored me - "unmoderated means
uncensored - anything goes."

ALL posts are relevant on a truly "unmoderated" list - even LONG posts - but
sadly - your subject line editorial commentary indicated just the opposite
as it deprived chirolist subscribers of MY subject line reason to open and
read my post.

MAYBE (hopefully) my own subject line reason to open and read my post was
not as good as your subject line reasons to open and read my post...

HOPEFULLY subscribers to the Dubin/Zaleski censored version of chirolist
were more interested in the subject "Todd Gastaldo" and your subject line
editorial commentary suggestions that 1) I post irrelevant posts and 2) that
it is OK for Dubin and Zaleski to keep censoring me from posting to their
ostensibly "unmoderated" list.

WHATEVER the reason for your subject line editorial commentary, it was brave
of you to risk being censored yourself for forwarding one of my posts.

I believe 100% of babies are glad that you risked being censored by
Dubin/Zaleski.

Thanks for forwarding.

I say again: I *especially* appreciated your comment "He's right damn
it!" - or words to that effect - not long ago.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


Copied to all those who received my Rule 302 post (including Rule 302
lawsuit Attorney David Prescott ) - and Larry
Glasscock, CEO and president of Anthem, Inc which now owns Trigon-cum-Anthem
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Virginia...)

I have received NO response from Larry Glasscock yet. Nor has any other
Anthem employee responded. Nor has ACOG's Willett L. LeHew, MD...

I think it's because I'm right - a HUGE MD spinal manipulation crime is
ongoing. EVERYONE is remaining silent - babies (and mothers) be damned -
afraid to challenge medical authority.

I'm HOPING that chiros and chiro trade unions (and Rule 302 lawsuit Attorney
David Prescott) will finally get on the stick and help babies via the NSAID
segueway mentioned above - and below.



PS1 Bob, if it was NOT brave of you to publish me - that is - if you did
NOT (as I indicate on the subject line of this post) risk censorship by
Dubin/Zaleski - then why am I being censored by Dubin/Zaleski from their
"unmoderated" list? Remember: Dubin *protested* - albeit mildly - when
Dziuba censored me from his "unmoderated" list - then HE (Dubin) censored me
when he got the chance!

PS2 Dubin was president of the California "Chiropractic" Association/CCA -
he served two terms recently. I think I *had* to be censored from the
Dubin/Zaleski "unmoderated" list because of my persistence in suggesting
that "chiropractic" attorney Mike Schroeder - a former Calif. Republican
Party Chairman and Honorary Member of the California "Chiropractic"
Association/CCA - helped 10 MD-obstetricians judicially rubberstamp the
reportedly unlawful CCA/Schroeder Rule 302 which helps conceal the ongoing
obstetric spinal manipulation crime which I persistently protest.

COINCIDENCE: A man calling himself Michael Schroeder, attorney for the
chiro board, told me it was not in my Calif. scope of practice to tell
pregnant women that MDs are closing birth canals. Years later, Michael
Schroeder, who had been attorney for the chiro board, sued me for one
million dollars as I discussed his (Schroeder's Rule 302). I spent $2500
dollars trying to get the trial moved to Oregon where I could defend
myself - but I lost on jurisdiction. The merits of the case were never
argued. The judge lined through Schroeder's one million dollar claim and
awarded him a $25,000 dollar default judgement. Dynamic Chiropractic wrote
a CRAP article - which Dziuba promoted on chirolist...

Will someone (Dubin?) ask Schroeder if it is outside the Calif. scope of
practice - or ANY state's chiro scope of practice - to tell pregnant women
that MDs are senselessly closing birth canals and gruesomely manipulating
most babies' spines at birth?

NOTE: I put the "Chiropractic" in California "Chiropractic" Association in
quotes in the paragraph above because CCA leaders like Dubin are
perpetuating the massive obstetric spinal manipulation crime via silence -
and censorship. (Wrote Dubin: "I censored Todd Gastaldo because no one
wants to hear his rants" - or words to that effect.)

True CHIROPRACTIC doctors *must* start looking at the ACA v. TRIGON (now
Anthem) lawsuit from the perspective of MD treatment of PREGNANT WOMEN with
NSAIDS...

Why *did* Trigon-cum-Anthem MDs REWRITE the AHCPR-sponsored Guideline and
DELETE reference to chiropractic-style spinal manipulation? (See the ACA v.
Trigon (now Anthem) lawsuit.)

LOTS of pregnant women suffer back pain.

Lots of Trigon/Anthem insureds are likely being forced into taking
NSAIDS^^^...

Lots of Trigon/Anthem insureds are not being given the choice of
chiropractic spinal manipulation.

See Rule 302, Birth and Trigon/Anthem (Glasscock) - and ACOG's Willett
LeHew, MD
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2252

^^^A mother recently told me she was told to take NSAIDS while pregnant -
under DOD medical care... She said SHE had to tell the military MD that
pregnant women should not be taking NSAIDS!


BOB WOOLERY, DC... If you post THIS post (I hope you do) - you should
probably delete the following - since you already posted it - albeit under
your subject line...


This OPEN LETTER to Dr. Woolery - WITH the material I am advising him to
delete - will be archived for global access:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2253

Within 24 hours it will be in the Google archive. Search
http://groups.google.com for "Is Trigon (Anthem) pushing NSAIDS in
pregnancy? (also: Bob Woolery, DC publishes Gastaldo, risks censorship by
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Woolery
To:
Cc: Todd Gastaldo
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 11:41 PM
Subject: Fw: From Todd Gastaldo: a short, for him, mostly relevant post



Bob Woolery
Life West 1992
531 Georgia St.
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707) 557 5471
State of the Art in low dose X-ray
----- Original Message -----
From: Todd Gastaldo
To: Bob Woolery
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:00 PM
Subject: Is Trigon (Anthem) pushing NSAIDS in pregnancy? (also:
Arnold-Chiari - birth traction trauma?) - was Rule 302, Birth and
Trigon/Anthem (Glasscock) - and ACOG's Willett LeHew, MD


With pregnant women cautioned against taking NSAIDS for their acute low back
problems...

WHY are Trigon-cum-Anthem MDs not referring pregnant women for
chiropractic-style spinal manipulation as called for in the AHCPR-sponsored
Acute Low Back Problems Guideline?

INDEED, why did Trigon-cum-Anthem MDs REWRITE the AHCPR-sponsored Guideline
and DELETE reference to chiropractic-style spinal manipulation? (See the ACA
v. Trigon (now Anthem) lawsuit.)

LOTS of pregnant women suffer back pain.

Lots of Trigon/Anthem insureds are likely being forced into taking
NSAIDS^^^...

Lots of Trigon/Anthem insureds are not being given the choice of
chiropractic spinal manipulation.

See Rule 302, Birth and Trigon/Anthem (Glasscock) - and ACOG's Willett
LeHew, MD
htt://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2252

^^^A mother recently told me she was told to take NSAIDS while pregnant -
under DOD medical care... She said SHE had to tell the military MD that
pregnant women should not be taking NSAIDS!

BOB WOOLERY, DC


Bob,

Thanks for the kind comment regarding my Rule 302, Birth and Trigon/Anthem
post just cited...

A friend juxtaposed our statements - one of my NSAID statements in my Rule
302 post - and a statement of yours in one of your NSAID chirolist posts...

See below...

Since the ACA/McAndrews lawsuit says NOTHING (so far as I can tell) about
the NSAID danger to PREGNANT WOMEN of Trigon-cum-Anthem writing
chiropractic-style manipulation out of the AHCPR-sponsored guidelines....

Maybe you could forward this to the Dubin/Zaleski censored chirolist for
discussion?

Hopefully my old pals on the list will enjoy seeing one of my posts
thereon - even if it has to be forwarded to an ostensibly "unmoderated"
chirolist...

Maybe you could ask that Dubin and Zaleski **stop censoring me** from their
ostensibly "unmoderated" chirolist - or at least stop calling their censored
list "unmoderated"?

BTW Bob, I noticed you and someone else discussing Arnold-Chiari
malformation awhile back...

It occurred to me that the following UPPER CERVICAL CHIRO-RELEVANT
discussion might be of interest to subscribers to the Dubin/Zaleski censored
chirolist...

ARNOLD-CHIARI

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=e...lm=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...

"...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?

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/a...01/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

ABOVE is excerpted from one of my usenet posts available by searching
at http://groups.google.com


Rule 302, Birth and Trigon/Anthem (Glasscock) - and ACOG's Willett LeHew, MD
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2252

As indicated above, Bob, a pertinent excerpt of this just cited post was
placed in one of your Dubin/Zaleski censored chirolist posts and sent to me
as follows...


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Woolery
To: Buddy Touchinsky ;
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:53 PM
Subject: [chirolist] National Ad Campaign


Seems to me that one of the most important things I have found out about
osteoarthritis ever is that NSAIDs of every stripe (tylenol is not an NSAID)
make the pathology worse, while providing immediate relief.
Maybe we should not be the ones to publicise this, but someone sure
should.

[GASTALDO SAYS:] "AND Anthem will have plenty of money to inform Anthem
insureds across the country that pregnant women are not supposed to take
NSAIDS - that spinal manipulation is available to them."

Bob Woolery
Life West 1992
531 Georgia St.
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707) 557 5471
State of the Art in low dose X-ray

ATTENTION Dubin/Zaleski censored chirolist subscribers: If you are in
California, I urge you to read my Rule 302 post, URL above...

Finally, thanks again Bob for you kind comment regarding my Rule 302, Birth
and Trigon/Anthem post...

Your "Oh Well" kind of stung though...

Again, please ask Dubin and Zaleski to stop censoring me from their
ostensibly "unmoderated" chirolist...


----- Original Message -----
From: Todd Gastaldo
To: Bob Woolery
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: Rule 302, Birth and Trigon/Anthem (Glasscock) - and ACOG's
Willett LeHew, MD


Bob,

Let's not blame "the Internet" for censorship that occurs thereon.

I hope you are doing well.

Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Woolery
To: Todd Gastaldo
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:11 AM
Subject: Rule 302, Birth and Trigon/Anthem (Glasscock) - and ACOG's
Willett LeHew, MD


Good to see you are still going strong; unfortunately, this post is
excellent evidence that the Internet is not providing the changes in
behavior through presentation that we hoped fo in its introduction. Oh
Well.

Bob Woolery
Life West 1992
531 Georgia St.
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707) 557 5471
State of the Art in low dose X-ray

END Dr. Woolery's kind remark regarding Gastaldo's Rule 302 post

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