Fasting, chiropractic, hypertension (also: shoulder dystocia)

SHOULDER DYSTOCIA and HYPERTENSION...

Leslie Iffy, MD et al. say,

"[T]he frequency of diabetes in pregnancy and that of hypertension, is about
5% in the United States...Since hypertension causes retarded fetal growth,
it cannot be a direct cause of arrest of the shoulders at delivery."
--Leslie Iffy, MD et al. (listed below) [Med Law. 2003;22(2):207-19. PubMed
abstract]


PREGNANT WOMEN: MDs are closing birth canals up to 30% at delivery. 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 be forwarned: Some MDs will
try to close your birth canal (move you back to semisitting or dorsal) as
you push your baby out! See GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT, my presentation at a 2002
obstetric conference co-sponsored by ACOG...

ACOG's SHOULDER DYSTOCIA VIDEO: MDs admit ON VIDEO that they are closing
birth canals routinely - even as they teach themselves to KEEP the birth
canal closed when baby's shoulders get stuck!

See Dynamic Human Anatomy: Severe vagina tearing and 'the presence of a
physician'...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2141


CHIROPRACTIC AND HYPERTENSION

"My name is Myron Schultz and I am about to present a paper on working up
the hypertensive patient. Is anyone aware of any credible research in the
chiropractic treatment of hypertension."
--Dr. Myron Schultz on the censored version of chiro-list
)...

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access***)

Dr Myron Schultz
Homeopath
General & Systemic Pathology Lecturer (Durban Institute of Technology)
The Homeopathic & Chiropractic Clinic
110 Kensington Dr, Durban North, 4051
Tel : 031 563-1313
Cell: 083 463-5096


Myron,

Regarding chiropractic and hypertension...

First things first...

A BROADSCOPE definition of chiropractic...

"Chiropractic...a science of applied neurophysiologic diagnosis...irritation
of the nervous system by mechanical, chemical, or psychic factors is the
cause of disease...Diagnosis is the identification of these noxious
irritants and treatment is their removal by the most conservative method."
[Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1988, 1994, 2000, 27th, 28th and
29th editions]

I include this broadscope definition of chiropractic (which I wrote) because
broadscope chiropractic includes NON-SPINAL (educational) adjusting - to
elicit fasting behavior for example...

I seem to remember that the first author of the following two studies - AC
Goldhamer - is a DC/DO...

J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2001 Jun;24(5):335-9. PubMed abstract

Comment in:
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2002 Feb;25(2):138-9; author reply 139.

Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of hypertension.

Goldhamer A, Lisle D, Parpia B, Anderson SV, Campbell TC.

Center for Conservative Therapy, Penngrove, Calif, USA.

BACKGROUND: Hypertension-related diseases are the leading cause of morbidity
and mortality in industrially developed societies. Although antihypertensive
drugs are extensively used, dietary and lifestyle modifications also are
effective in the treatment of patients with hypertension. One such lifestyle
intervention is the use of medically supervised, water-only fasting as a
safe and effective means of normalizing blood pressure and initiating
health-promoting behavioral changes. METHODS: One hundred seventy-four
consecutive hypertensive patients with blood pressure in excess of 140 mm Hg
systolic, 90 mm Hg diastolic (140/90 mm Hg), or both were treated in an
inpatient setting under medical supervision. The treatment program consisted
of a short prefasting period (approximately 2 to 3 days on average) during
which food consumption was limited to fruits and vegetables, followed by
medically supervised water-only fasting (approximately 10 to 11 days on
average) and a refeeding period (approximately 6 to 7 days on average)
introducing a low-fat, low-sodium, vegan diet. RESULTS: Almost 90% of the
subjects achieved blood pressure less than 140/90 mm Hg by the end of the
treatment program. The average reduction in blood pressure was 37/13 mm Hg,
with the greatest decrease being observed for subjects with the most severe
hypertension. Patients with stage 3 hypertension (those with systolic blood
pressure greater than 180 mg Hg, diastolic blood pressure greater than 110
mg Hg, or both) had an average reduction of 60/17 mm Hg at the conclusion of
treatment. All of the subjects who were taking antihypertensive medication
at entry (6.3% of the total sample) successfully discontinued the use of
medication. CONCLUSION: Medically supervised water-only fasting appears to
be a safe and effective means of normalizing blood pressure and may assist
in motivating health-promoting diet and lifestyle changes.


J Altern Complement Med. 2002 Oct;8(5):643-50. PubMed abstract

Comment in:
J Altern Complement Med. 2002 Dec;8(6):696-7.

Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of borderline
hypertension.

Goldhamer AC, Lisle DJ, Sultana P, Anderson SV, Parpia B, Hughes B, Campbell
TC.

TrueNorth Health Center, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA.

BACKGROUND: Hypertension-related diseases are the leading causes of
morbidity and mortality in industrially developed societies. Surprisingly,
68% of all mortality attributed to high blood pressure (BP) occurs with
systolic BP between 120 and 140 mm Hg and diastolic BP below 90 mm Hg.
Dietary and lifestyle modifications are effective in the treatment of
borderline hypertension. One such lifestyle intervention is the use of
medically supervised water-only fasting as a safe and effective means of
normalizing BP and initiating health-promoting behavioral changes. METHODS:
Sixty-eight (68) consecutive patients with borderline hypertension with
systolic BP in excess of 119 mm Hg and diastolic BP less than 91 mm Hg were
treated in an inpatient setting under medical supervision. The treatment
program consisted of a short prefasting period (approximately 1-2 days on
average) during which food consumption was limited to fruits and vegetables
followed by medically supervised water-only fasting (approximately 13.6 days
on average). Fasting was followed by a refeeding period (approximately 6.0
days on average). The refeeding program consisted of a low-fat, low-sodium,
plant-based, vegan diet. RESULTS: Approximately 82% of the subjects achieved
BP at or below 120/80 mm Hg by the end of the treatment program. The mean BP
reduction was 20/7 mm Hg, with the greatest decrease being observed for
subjects with the highest baseline BP. A linear regression of BP decrease
against baseline BP showed that the estimated BP below which no further
decrease would be expected was 96.0/67.0 mm Hg at the end of the fast and
99.2/67.3 mm Hg at the end of refeeding. These levels are in agreement with
other estimates of the BP below which stroke events are eliminated, thus
suggesting that these levels could be regarded as the "ideal" BP values.
CONCLUSION: Medically supervised water-only fasting appears to be a safe and
effective means of normalizing BP and may assist in motivating
health-promoting diet and lifestyle changes.

It is necessary to mention BROADSCOPE chiropractic because chiropractic
currently has a NARROW SCOPE vertebral subluxation complex (pun intended).

Chiropractic's present narrow scope vertebral subluxation complex derives in
part from x-ray/subluxation "sabotage" of chiropractic in US Medicare law...

Over the objections of doctors of chiropractic, the 1970s US Medicare law
*mandated* radiation of all Medicare chiropractic patients - obviously
illegal.

Also over the objections of doctors of chiropractic, the 1970s Medicare law
also mandated that DCs swear on their Medicare bills (by signing) that they
demonstrated a vertebral subluxation on an x-ray (if they wanted to get
paid)...

In 1997, Congress finally admitted that the mandatory radiation of
chiropractic patients was wrong...

But Congress bizarrely EXTENDED the mandatory radiation of chiropractic
patients for two more years - and the largest chiro trade union went along
with the gag!

For my 1997 article Radiation is NOT a tool of managed care...

See PPAC, vaccinations and chiro bouncer Bob (Bob Dubin, Diplomate, American
Board of Chiropractic Censorship)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2143

See also: Pregnant chiro patients: BIZARRE chiro legislation - babies be
damned...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2135

The subluxation-on-x-ray fraud was long ago PROVEN to be a fraud by the
MD-dominated federal health
bureaucracy...

But the subluxation-on-x-ray fraud it is not being prosecuted even today by
the MD-dominated federal
health bureaucracy - likely because THERE IS A NASTY Wilk v.
AMA/**VACCINATION** TWIST TO THE STORY...

See Chiros might as well be injecting vaccinations themselves...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2139

NOTE: I am NOT opposed to vaccinations - I am adamantly in FAVOR
of vaccinations - as long as parents have a true CHOICE.

In this regard, I want chiros to unite and stop organized medicine's obvious
Exclusion Day vaccination fraud...

See EXCLUSION DAY VACCINATION FRAUD - will Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill) help
expose it?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2119

I also want chiros to unite and stop organized medicine's practice of
closing birth canals and gruesomely (sometimes fatally) manipulating most
babies' spines at birth (alluded to above)...

See Dynamic Human Anatomy: Severe vagina tearing and 'the presence of a
physician'...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2141

See also: Johns Hopkins breast/vagina/penis power! (How America can
INSTANTLY save
$200 million per year...)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2108

Myron, if you know any chiros, please tell them that I would like to see
ACA/ICA/WCA/FSCO unity on these issues by the
Sept. 16, 2003 ACA House of Delegates meeting in Albuquerque...

Good luck,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


Copied to: Dr. Goldhamer

PS Myron, just in case you haven't already...

I searched PubMed...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

I typed in chiropractic and hypertension...

The Goldhamer studies did NOT come up...

Here is what came up...

1: Crawford CM, Hurtgen-Grace K, Talarico E, Marley J. Related Articles,
Links
Abdominal aortic aneurysm: an illustrated narrative review.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2003 Mar-Apr;26(3):184-95. Review.
PMID: 12704311 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
2: Goertz CH, Grimm RH, Svendsen K, Grandits G. Related Articles, Links
Treatment of Hypertension with Alternative Therapies (THAT) Study: a
randomized clinical trial.
J Hypertens. 2002 Oct;20(10):2063-8.
PMID: 12359986 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
3: Plaugher G, Long CR, Alcantara J, Silveus AD, Wood H, Lotun K, Menke JM,
Meeker WC, Rowe SH. Related Articles, Links
Practice-based randomized controlled-comparison clinical trial of
chiropractic adjustments and brief massage treatment at sites of subluxation
in subjects with essential hypertension: pilot study.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2002 May;25(4):221-39.
PMID: 12021741 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
4: Seaman DR. Related Articles, Links
The diet-induced proinflammatory state: a cause of chronic pain and other
degenerative diseases?
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2002 Mar-Apr;25(3):168-79. Review.
PMID: 11986578 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
5: Jamison JR. Related Articles, Links
Reducing the personal risk of perceived disease: the chiropractic patients'
self-care endeavor.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2001 Jul-Aug;24(6):378-84.
PMID: 11514814 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
6: Goodman G, Jones TR. Related Articles, Links
The chiropractic profession, dietary calcium, and the diseases associated
with calcium-deficient diets.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2001 May;24(4):305-7. No abstract available.
PMID: 11353944 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
7: Plaugher G, Bachman TR. Related Articles, Links
Chiropractic management of a hypertensive patient.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1993 Oct;16(8):544-9.
PMID: 8263434 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
8: Terenzi T, Gallagher D, DeMeersman R, Beadle E, Muller D. Related
Articles, Links
The age-related advancement of arterial disease measured by Doppler
ultrasound diastolic flow analysis.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1993 Oct;16(8):527-36.
PMID: 8263432 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
9: Clark WL, Alpern HL, Breall WS, Hyman RM, Markovitz A, O'Brien JB,
Starke RD. Related Articles, Links
Suggested guidelines for rating cardiac disability in workers'
compensation. Medical and Chiropractic Advisory Committee to the
Administrative Director of the California Division of Industrial Accidents.
West J Med. 1993 Mar;158(3):263-7.
PMID: 8460507 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
10: Brien P. Related Articles, Links
Chiropractic adjustment in the management of visceral conditions: a
critical appraisal.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1992 Jul-Aug;15(6):408-9. No abstract
available.
PMID: 1431627 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
11: Jamison JR, McEwen AP, Thomas SJ. Related Articles, Links
Chiropractic adjustment in the management of visceral conditions: a
critical appraisal.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1992 Mar-Apr;15(3):171-80.
PMID: 1573346 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
12: [No authors listed] Related Articles, Links
Effects of chiropractic treatment on blood pressure and anxiety: a
randomized and controlled trial.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1991 Jan;14(1):74-7. No abstract available.
PMID: 2002292 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
13: Jamison JR. Related Articles, Links
Dietary intervention in the clinical prevention of ischemic heart disease.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1990 Jun;13(5):247-52.
PMID: 2165514 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
14: Nykoliation J. Related Articles, Links
Effects of chiropractic treatment on blood pressure and anxiety: a
randomized and controlled trial.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1990 Feb;13(2):113. No abstract available.
PMID: 2307919 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Dietary control of mild essential hypertension.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1988 Feb;11(1):58-9. No abstract available.
PMID: 3351405 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
16: Gomer GK. Related Articles, Links
The management of hypertensive disease: a review of spinal manipulation and
the efficacy of conservative therapeusis.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1987 Dec;10(6):334-5. No abstract available.
PMID: 3437239 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Benign intracranial hypertension: diagnosis and conservative management.
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PMID: 3701224 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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PMID: 3517211 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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FINALLY, back to Leslie Iffy, MD et al...

Med Law. 2003;22(2):207-19. PubMed abstract

Diabetes, hypertension and birth injuries: a complex interrelationship.

Iffy L, Djordjevic MM, Apuzzio JJ, Martin JD, Sama JC.

U.M.D.N.J. New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

ABSTRACT... Seemingly coincidental occurrence of various pathological
conditions may derive from common etiologic denominators. While reviewing
240 malpractice claims involving shoulder dystocia related fetal injuries,
we found two antenatal complications in the background conspicuously often.
Chronic or pregnancy induced hypertension was identifiable in 80 instances
(33%). Pregnancy induced or preexisting diabetes was diagnosed 48 times
(20%). Many of these patients were poorly controlled. The blood pressure was
usually checked during the antenatal visits. However, about one-half of all
patients received no diabetic screening. Therefore, this study may
underestimate the actual incidence of diabetes. It has been calculated that
the frequency of diabetes in pregnancy and that of hypertension, is about 5%
in the United States. Thus, the rates of these complications in this
selected group of gravidas was severalfold higher than in the general
population. Since hypertension causes retarded fetal growth, it cannot be a
direct cause of arrest of the shoulders at delivery. The likely common
denominator is maternal diabetes a known predisposing factor both for
preeclampsia and shoulder dystocia at birth. In the course of litigations
for fetal injuries, demonstration of the predisposing role of seemingly
unrelated shortcomings of the medical management may profoundly influence
the outcome. This principle is demonstrated by the presentation of an actual
malpractice action which resulted in a substantial settlement.

LESLIE IFFY, MD...

OBSTETRICAL IN-PATIENT LABOR AND DELIVERY SERVICE (OBG 9071)...DIRECTOR: Dr.
Leslie Iffy...Please email questions and comments to: Norbert I. Swislocki,
Ph.D.
http://njms.umdnj.edu/educ/elect/dept/gyn.htm

I'll copy Leslie via Norbert

Norbert, will you ask Leslie if semisitting/dorsal delivery (closing the
birth canal) is used there at UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School?

I am trying to stop this bizarre birth practice of MDs...

Actually, I am trying to curtail American medicine's most frequent surgical
behaviors...

See again: Dynamic Human Anatomy: Severe vagina tearing and 'the presence of
a
physician'...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2141

See also: Johns Hopkins breast/vagina/penis power! (How America can
INSTANTLY save
$200 million per year...)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2108

Still no luck finding Leslie's email. I'll also cc via Joseph Apuzzio, MD


JOE APUZZIO, MD/ACOG


Dr. Apuzzio is Chair of the New Jersey Section of American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists[ACOG].
http://njms.umdnj.edu/obgyn/apuzzio.htm

Joe, as noted above...

ACOG's SHOULDER DYSTOCIA VIDEO: MDs admit ON VIDEO that they are closing
birth canals routinely - even as they teach themselves to KEEP the birth
canal closed when baby's shoulders get stuck!

See Dynamic Human Anatomy: Severe vagina tearing and 'the presence of a
physician'...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2141

I'll also cc Leslie via others at UMDNJ
; ;
;


Please guys, help stop the obvious massive MD birth fraud.

Thanks for reading,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


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