Awesome breasts! OBs causing otitis media? (also: 'Osteopathic' v. 'Chiropractic' manipulation)

AWESOME BREASTS!

IMMUNIZATION devices!

"[Breast]milk secretory IgA IMMUNIZATIONS stop microbes already on the
mucosa preventing infection, tissue engagement and energy loss. In addition,
the milk contains many protective factors such as lactoferrin and
oligosacharides functioning as analogues for microbial receptors preventing
mucosal attachment, the initial step of most infections. As a result,
breast-feeding significantly reduces the risk of neonatal septicemia,
respiratory tract infections, otitis media, diarrhea, urinary tract
infections, infection-induced wheezing and necrotizing enterocolitis."
--Lars A Hanson et al.^^^ Pediatr Int. 2002 Aug;44(4):347-52. PubMed
abstract (I've substituted the power word IMMUNIZATIONS for Hanson et al.'s
word "antibodies." More on this below.)

^^^Hanson LA, Korotkova M, Haversen L, Mattsby-Baltzer I, Hahn-Zoric M,
Silfverdal SA, Strandvik B, Telemo E. Department of Clinical Immunology,
Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden. Copied to Hanson et al. via




OTITIS MEDIA...

IS OBSTETRIC COMPRESSION ("PRESUMABLY DURING BIRTH") A CAUSE?

"Given the position of the auditory tube between the temporal and sphenoid
bones...it is apparent that the tube is vulnerable to extrinsic compression,
presumably during birth."
--Miriam V. Mills, MD et al.^^^ [Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med.
2003;157:861-866.]

^^^Miriam V. Mills, MD; Charles E. Henley, DO, MPH; Laura L. B. Barnes, PhD;
Jane E. Carreiro, DO; Brian F. Degenhardt, DO
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/157/9/861

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access***)

Miriam V. Mills, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
1111 W 17th St
Tulsa, OK 74107


Miriam,

Whether or not OBs are causing otitis media via compression, they *are*
causing compression - *senseless* compression.

OBs are senselessly closing birth canals.

OBs are slashing vaginas en masse ("routine episiotomy")
surgically/fraudulently inferring they are doing everything possible to OPEN
birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%.

OBs are GRUESOMELY (sometimes fatally) manipulating (pushing and pulling on)
most babies' spines - with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%.

OBs are killing an estimated six babies per DAY with vacuum-assisted spinal
manipulation alone - with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%...

See USUAL MECHANISM (PS5) in my article, "Pregnant chiro patients: BIZARRE
chiro legislation - babies be damned..."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2135

OBs CAUSE cephalopelvic disproportion and failure to progress - then perform
c-sections BEcause of cephalopelvic disproportion and failure to progress.

OBs corrected their erroneous at-term pelvic biomechanics at my request -
but they republished (in three editions) the "dorsal widens" error that
called my attention to their text!

See McGraw-Hill: Williams Obstetrics STILL erroneous: Dorsal (and
semistting) CLOSE the birth canal...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2147

OBs are committing OBVIOUS criminal negligence which sometimes escalates to
criminally negligent homicide: OBs themselves have noted that closing the
birth canal FAR LESS than 30% can KILL.

To speed an end to the obvious OB criminal negligence, I am in favor of
pardons in advance for OBs. OBs are just academic prime cuts forced through
this culture's most powerful mental meatgrinder - medical school.

Miriam, please help stop OBs from closing birth canals.

Thanks,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 CHIROPRACTIC MANIPULATION vs. OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATION

Prof. Hamonet says chiropractic and osteopathy are "twin sisters"...

See Chiropractic's twin sister? (Prof. Hamonet on osteopathy)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1913

Interesting quotes from the study by Miriam and her osteopathic
colleagues...

"[O]steopathic manipulative treatment as adjuvant therapy in children with
recurrent Acute Otitis Media...may prevent or decrease surgical intervention
or antibiotic overuse."

"No high-velocity (popping) techiques were used."

"[N]o prior manipulation, either osteopathic or chiropractic..."

"RECENTLY TRAINED OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS..."

Osteopaths abandoned most osteopathic manipulative techniques. In
California, osteopaths were awarded the MD degree - after which the medical
association called them "mds" (small case letters)...

But now osteopaths are teaching osteopathy again... BRAVO!

"Authors of prior articles have addressed the role of structural influences
on otorhinolaryngologic function and suggested osteopathic or chiropractic
manipulation...Osteopathic manipulative treatments...were gentle techniques
on areas of restriction consisting of articulation, myofascial release,
balanced membranous tension (according to teachings of William Garner
Sutherland, DO, and others, balanced ligamentous tension, facilitated
positional release, and/or counterstrain treatments. These techniques are
familiar to most RECENTLY TRAINED OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS, but it is not in
the scope of this article to describe them in detail. Despite some expected
variation in their application by different physicians, we attempted to
standardize their approach by using only physicians with teaching experience
in OMT. No high-velocity (popping) techniques were used. The entire body,
with attention to the head and neck, was included in the osteopathic
evaluation and treatment."

Miriam, good luck distinguishing between osteopathic and chiropractic
treatments these days! You'll need even more luck distinguishing between
how individual practitioners employ the various "chiropractic" and
"osteopathic" techniques!

While osteopaths were away from "their" "osteopathic" techniques...

"Influences from beyond the profession (eg, from osteopathy) are also
apparent; chiropractors have not confined themselves to the high-velocity
adjustive procedures that marked the profession's inception."
[Keating JC. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2003 Jun;26(5):300-21. PubMed
abstract] (Copied to Keating via .)

Also, there's the matter of chiropractic physicians hitchhiking on
osteopathic "respectability" in "scientific medicine" (earned by DOs
abandoning osteopathic manipulation in order to suck up to "scientific
medicine")...

Should DCs - who stuck to their guns and maintained and promoted spinal
manipulation - now be paid less than DOs who sold out?

ACA attorney Tom Daly's analysis of a bill before Congress, HR 2560:

"According to the chiropractic representatives on both AMA-CPT HCPAC and RUC
HCPAC, [Rep. Manzullo's] HR 2560 would require a change in the current CMT
codes - from 'chiropractic manipulative therapy' to something like
'chiropractic adjustment therapy'...The new 'CAT' codes would then go under
the process of review by the RUC for the assignment of new relative values.
In that process, the profession would no longer be able to compare the
relative values to the osteopathic manipulative therapy/OMT codes, as was
successfully done in 1996, because of the [Manzullo-proposed] change in
definition from manipulation to adjustment...In addition, the current CMT
Codes include: 1) some history, 2) some examination, and 3) some clinical
decision-making that only a physician can perform. These are not included
in non-physician services, such as 97140 (manual therapy techniques). HR
2560 would remove chiropractors from the definition of physician and
therefore the [Manzullo-proposed] new CAT codes could not include the higher
valued physician component, but rather would be valued along the same lines
of the much lower valued non-physician manual therapy codes..." ACA
attorney Tom Daly quoted by ACA chairman James Edwards in Rondberg's The
Chiropractic Journal, Vol. 17, No. 12, September 2003:front page,
30,31,32,33.

MY PERSONAL TAKE: Rep. Manzullo's bill should be defeated. Why should DCs
be FURTHER taxed by Medicare as Medicare pays $7 BILLION per year to help
train MDs and DOs to ignore science, close birth canals and GRUESOMELY
manipulate most babies' spines at birth (among other obvious MD and DO
crimes)???

MY SOLUTION: Stop the x-ray/subluxation fraud that medical lobbiests got
Congress to pass (over the objections of chiros) - AND stop the obvious MD
and DO fraud. NOW.

Now that osteopathic colleges are starting to teach osteopathic manipulation
again, I'm wondering, are they teaching "high-velocity adjustive
procedures"?

Anyone know?

PS2 FOR CHIROS ONLY...

Chiro Bouncer Bob (fmr CCA pres. Bob Dubin, DC) writes of the censored
version of chirolist ):

"Dr. Gastaldo is not welcome in this forum, as he was not welcome prior to
our taking over the administrative tasks of managing the listserv."

"co-moderator" Brian Zaleski, DC is going along
with Chiro Bouncer Bob's censorship gag...

KEY POINT: Dr. DD Palmer, Founder of chiropractic not only renamed the
ancient art of spinal manipulation
"chiropractic adjusting" - most significantly - he renamed EDUCATION
chiropractic, as in,

"I...named the mental act of accumulating knowledge, the...growth of
intellectual...Chiropractic."(p. 19)

This is not so arrogant as it might seem...

The medical profession was then (AND STILL IS) engaging in RESTRICTING the
mental act of accumulating knowledge - see for example the spectacle of
osteopaths being stimulated to abandon osteopathy for so many years to curry
favor with organized medicine...

"Chiropractic came as an educator" DD wrote on p. 465.

And on p. 867, he wrote:

"It now remains for Chiropractors to rectify the mistakes of the medical
profession."

Of course, the chiropractic profession (including DD himself) did make
mistakes - and the chiropractic profession STILL makes mistakes (Chiro
Bouncer Bob's censorship for example).

It's just that the medical profession's mistakes were (and still are) so
much worse...

MDs and DOs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and GRUESOMELY
manipulating
most babies' spines at birth - as they RESTRICT chiropractic - the mental
act of accumulating this knowledge...

Why is Chiro Bouncer Bob - a CHIROPRACTOR - restricting the mental act of
accumulating this knowledge?

Why is Dr. Brian Zaleski going along with the gag?

CHIROPRACTIC EMERGENCY...

Brian, MDs and DOs are killing an estimated six babies per DAY with
vacuum-assisted spinal manipulation alone - with birth canals senselessly
closed up to 30%...

See USUAL MECHANISM (PS5) in my article, "Pregnant chiro patients: BIZARRE
chiro legislation - babies be damned..."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2135

Please post this to the censored version of chirolist
) and to the CCA and ACA listservs.

PS3 HOSPITAL RESIDENCY BOONDOGGLES FOR MDs and DOs...

Miriam and her osteopathic colleagues mentioned Sawyer (a CHIROPRACTIC
physican?) writing about "chiropractors' unfamiliarity with tympanometry and
otoscopy."

Miriam et al. write: "[A]n OSTEOPATHIC physician...documented improvement of
tympanogram readings in the treatment group after 2 weeks of osteopathic
manipulative treatment (OMT). [emphasis added]"

This pejoration by inference reminds me... Osteopathic physicians licked
medical boots - nearly lost osteopathy - but they did get in on the Medicare
hospital residency boondoggle: Hospitals receive from Medicare roughly $7
billion dollars per year - $100,000 dollars per year per recently graduated
medical or osteopathy student. Medicare thus funds medical and osteopathy
grads - some in further-funded University research environments - as
chiropractic grads suck mud - STILL not even getting paid by Medicare to do
physical exams and take histories.

The US Supreme Court furthered medical and osteopathic monopolization of the
Medicare hospital residency boondoggle in Wilk v. AMA by ignoring its own
precedent and dening chiropractic physicians protection of the Sherman Act.

See US Atty Genl to 'quackbust' CSICOP 'skeptics'? (For PJ Lisa via Tim
Bolen)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2021

See also: Hospital residencies for nurses and chiropractors...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2113

And see: A 'physic' for Dr. Israeli/'Physic'ian Orac, MD, PhD: Did he get
his PhD out of a cereal box?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2158

PS4 TYMPANOMETRY

Returning to Miriam and her osteopathic colleagues mentioning Sawyer (a
CHIROPRACTIC physican?) writing about "chiropractors' unfamiliarity with
tympanometry and otoscopy."

I never did "tympanometry." Other chiropractic students may have done
tympanometry - but I did not. I graduated Los Angeles College of
Chiropractic in 1979 after also attending Western States Chiropractic
College (1975) and Texas Chiropractic College1976).

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [2000] says:
"tympanometry...subjecting the external acoustic meatus to positive, normal
and negative air pressure and monitoring resultant sound energy flow." A
tympanogram is "a graphic representation of...tympanometry."

Neither tympanometry nor tympanogram are described in the 1999 edition of
text I used in chiropractic college years ago - at least I don't see them in
either text or index.

There is this though: "PNEUMATIC OTOSCOPY...checking the movement of the
tympanic membrane should be part of every otoscopic examination." [Bickley
LS, Hoekelman RA. Bate's Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking.
Philadelphia, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. 1999:670]

I never did pneumatic otoscopy either - but I routinely did otoscopic exams
during full physical exams. (No MD during any physical throughout my life -
including the MD who did my US Navy physical prior to commissioning - ever
did pneumatic otoscopy. My hearing was fine but I initially failed my
physical due to excessive cerumen - and had no pneumatic otoscopy even after
that was cleared out. Bate's again: "[C]hecking the movement of the
tympanic membrane should be part of every otoscopic examination.")

There is no doubt in my mind that I could learn tympanometry were I called
upon to do so. I do not believe that medical or osteopathic students have
any special characteristic that would make them more skilled at tympanometry
than chiropractic students given the same learning opportunity/clinical
material. Once the skill is learned it would probably best for students of
all professional stripes to be able to simply ORDER A TYMPANOGRAM - and let
someone who does them all the time do them...

PS5 MOST MDs NOT USING TYMPANOMETRY?

Two interesting recent PubMed abstract excerpts...

1. "Otitis media is the most common disease seen by practicing general
pediatricians, but there is a paucity of formalized resident education. We
demonstrated only a slight to moderate correlation between the clinical
diagnostic examinations of pediatric residents and pediatric
otolaryngologists and tympanometry."
--Steinbach et al.^^^ [Pediatrics. 2002 Jun;109(6):993-8.]

^^^Steinbach WJ, Sectish TC, Benjamin DK Jr, Chang KW, Messner AH. Division
of General Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford,
California, USA. Copied to Steinback et al. via

2. "The percentage of [316] residents using pneumatic otoscopy was 66%,
tympanometry 29%, acoustic reflectometry 2%, and tympanocentesis 0%. The
most common reasons cited for not using tools were lack of training or
unavailability of equipment. Fifty-five percent of family practice residents
do not report pneumatic otoscopy for diagnosing otitis media...[A f]ew
residents believed that diagnostic tools had no value in the diagnosis of
otitis media..."
--MacClements et al.^^^ [Fam Med. 2002 Sep;34(8):598-603.]

^^^MacClements JE, Parchman M, Passmore C. Department of Family Practice,
University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, 75708-3154, USA. Copied to
MacClements et al. via

Maybe those Medicare-funded hospital residency boondoggles for MDs and DOs
aren't all they're cracked up to be. Nonetheless Medicare *should* be
giving hospitals $100,000 dollars per year to train DCs too. But that's not
happening - yet. At the very least, Medicare should start paying DCs for
performing physical exams and taking histories in their offices!

PS6 REMEMBER: ALL spinal manipulation of babies is gruesome with the birth
canal senselessly closed up to 30%.

MDs, DOs, and DCs: You are missing a GOLDEN opportunity to save tiny lives
and tiny limbs and PREVENT more putative vertebral subluxations (or putative
"osteopathic manipulative lesions") than DCs (and DOs) will ever be able to
charge to adjust/manipulate by hand.

MDs and DOs are committing other obvious crimes...

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

PS7 Regarding the "BREAST" part of Johns Hopkins breast/vagina/penis power
(URL just cited)...

Auinger et al. indicate that "early breastfeeding termination" may be a risk
factor for otitis media...

"After controlling for risk factors for [otitis media] OM, the prevalence of
OM from phase I to phase II increased from 66.7% to 69.7%...early-onset OM
increased from 41.1% to 45.8%...and repeated OM increased from 34.8% to
41.1%...This observed increase corresponds to 561,000 and 720,000 more
children having early-onset OM and repeated OM, respectively. Child care
use, early breastfeeding termination, asthma, and access to health care did
not significantly increase from phase I to phase II. The prevalence of
early-onset OM and repeated OM was higher for affluent children, but the
greatest increase in prevalence was among impoverished children...."
---Auinger et al.^^^ [Pediatrics. 2003 Sep;112(3 Pt 1):514-20. PubMed
abstract]

^^^Auinger P, Lanphear BP, Kalkwarf HJ, Mansour ME. Department of
Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and the
American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Research, Rochester,
New York 14620, USA. Copied to Auinger et al. via


Whatever is causing the increase in otitis media, Auinger et al.'s "early
breastfeeding termination" risk factor indicates that some cases of
recurrent acute otitis media may be being caused by MDs (and DOs) lying by
omission thereby denying massive numbers of children massive numbers of free
daily immunizations (breastfeedings).

Per Brandtzaeg [2003]^^^ mentions otitis media in his recent article on
breastfeeding...

I'm substituting the word IMMUNIZATIONS for Per's word "antibodies"...

"Lactating mammary glands are part of an integrated mucosal immune system
with local production of IMMUNIZATIONS, mainly consisting of secretory
immunoglobulin A (SIgA). These IMMUNIZATIONS generally reflect antigenic
stimulation of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) by common intestinal
and respiratory pathogens. IMMUNIZATIONS in breast milk are thus highly
targeted against infectious agents in the mother's environment, which are
those likely to be encountered by the infant shortly after birth. Therefore,
breast-feeding represents an ingenious immunological integration of mother
and child. The mucosae are favored as portals of entry by most infectious
agents, and the neonatal period is particularly critical in this respect.
Mucosal pathogens are a major killer of children below the age of 5 years,
being responsible for more than 14 million deaths annually. Diarrheal
disease alone claims a toll of 5 million children per year in the developing
countries. Epidemiological data suggest that the risk of dying from diarrhea
could be reduced 14-24 times in breast-fed children. A beneficial clinical
effect is also apparent in the industrialized world, even in relation to
relatively common diseases such as otitis media and acute lower respiratory
tract infections." [Brandtzaeg P. Vaccine. 2003 Jul 28;21(24):3382-8.
PubMed abstract

^^^Per Brandtzaeg. Laboratory for Immunohistochemistry and Immunopathology
(LIIPAT), Institute of Pathology, University of Oslo, Rikshospitalet, N-0027
Oslo, Norway. Copied to Per via

Per, breastfeeding mothers give their babies IMMUNIZATIONS - free - daily...
This needs to be stated explicitly to maximize the likelihood that women
will indeed IMMUNIZE their babies with their breasts.

Sorry to be a bit repetitive here but...

Ostensibly "pro-immunization" MDs and DOs are lying by omission thereby
denying
massive
numbers of preschool children
massive numbers of free daily immunizations.

MATERNAL ANTIBODIES FOR PASSIVE INFANT IMMUNIZATION
NIH GUIDE, Volume 23, Number 40, November 18, 1994
RFA: AI-95-004
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/r...AI-95-004.html

Reportedly, breastimmunizations make MD-needle
vaccinations work better!

Quoting Hanson and Telemo [1999]:

"The improved defense against infection in the breast-fed infant is
not just a matter of passive, temporary protection. There is also a
definite ACTIVE impact on the breast-fed infant's immune system that makes
it function more efficiently in defense against infections and in response
to vaccines for years to come." [Hanson and Telemo in Ogra et al. Mucosal Im
munology 1999:1501, emphasis added]

In 2002, Hanson and Telemo (also quoted at the beginning of this post)
modified their "ACTIVE impact" statement as follows (emphasis added):

"Via several mechanisms it SEEMS that human milk can actively stimulate the
immune system of the breast-fed infant. [If so, t]his reduces the risk of
infections like otitis media, respiratory tract infections, diarrhea and
infection-induced wheezing for several years after the termination of
breast-feeding. Furthermore, it seems that breast-feeding decreases the risk
of attracting celiac disease and allergic diseases. The latter has been much
debated, but a recent critical review of published reports gives good
support for long-term protection of allergic diseases, especially in
high-risk children."
[Hanson and Telemo and colleagues. Pediatr Int. 2002 Aug;44(4):347-52.
PubMed abstract]

REGARDLESS whether human milk can ACTIVELY stimulate the immune system of
the breast-fed infant...

MDs are mysteriously failing to tell the world that
breastfeeding women are IMMUNIZERS who scan for pathogens and manufacture
specific
IMMUNIZATIONS which they "inject" with their breasts DAILY.

MDs are also mysteriously failing to tell the world that
breast immunizations reportedly make
MD-needle-vaccinations work better! (See Hanson and Telemo [1999;just
quoted])

Via these lies of omission, ostensibly "pro-immunization" MDs are ignoring a
way to make the breastfeeding/breastIMMUNIZATION rate
skyrocket!

WHAT WOMAN - explicitly informed that she can IMMUNIZE her child daily - is
going fail to at
least ATTEMPT to give her baby free daily immunizations that reportedly make
MD-needle vaccinations work better!?

MDs are committing mass IMMUNOLOGIC child abuse!

See Breastfeeding = Chiropractic immunization!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2014

See also: No shots, no school? BALONEY!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1795

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


In addition to failing to disclose that they are lying by omission thereby
denying massive numbers of babies massive numbers of free daily
immunizations (which reportedly make baby immune systems and MD-needle
vaccinations work better!)...

MDs and DOs are failing to make up to 99% of the necessary reports to
establish VACCINE safety and MEDICATION safety - as they commit obvious
Exclusion Day vaccination fraud...

(MDs and DOs must end Exclusion Day vaccination fraud. MDs and DOs and
schools must tell ALL parents - not just parents who ask about vaccination
exemption - that ALL children will be sent home/protected during disease
outbreaks. No one knows which vaccinated children were not immunized by
their vaccinations. During disease outbreaks, we must protect (send home)
vaccinated-but-not-immunized children - not just vaccine-exempt children.)

NOTE: I am NOT opposed to vaccinations. I am ADAMANTLY IN FAVOR of
vaccinations - as long as parents are truly informed of vaccination risks -
and given TRUE CHOICE.

See VACCINATION SUBLUXATION! (Thimerosal: Sen Frist subluxating VICA)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2156


BOTTOMLINE...

Regardless whether MDs and DOs are themselves contributing to the increased
prevalence of otitis media...

MDs and DOs should stop the various crimes they are committing against
mothers and babies.

To speed an end to the MD and DO criminal negligence...

I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs and DOs. MDs and DOs are just
academic prime cuts forced through this culture's most powerful mental
meatgrinders - medical school and osteopathy school.

Maybe DCs are remaining silent because chiropractic schools are still so
desperately trying to suck up to graduates of medical mental meatgrinders...

Thanks for reading, everyone,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


Brian Zaleski, DC: Please forward this to the CENSORED version of chirolist
)...

Please also forward to the ACA and CCA listservs.

Hopefully SOME delegates/ACA members attending the Sept. 16-20 ACA House of
Delegates meeting in Albuquerque will speak out in opposition to the obvious
MD and DO crimes.

At the very least "neuromusculoskeletal" ACA delegates should protest MDs
and DOs senselessly closing birth canals and gruesomely manipulating most
babies' spines at birth....

Tentative Meeting schedule
BOG Meeting Sept. 16-17
Committee & Caucus Meetings Sept. 17
Council of Delegates Meeting Sept. 18
House of Delegates Meeting Sept. 19-20
Educational Programs Sept. 20
http://www.amerchiro.org/about/hod2003/hotel_info.shtml

The 2004 ACA House of Delegates Meeting will be held at the Renaissance
Vinoy Resort and Golf Club in St. Petersburg, FL.

Maybe ACA will have acted to help the tiniest chiropractic patients by
2004...

Hey! Maybe Banyan CEO Attorney Michael Gelmon (Chiropractic USA is a Banyan
subsidiary) will take action!

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2003--Banyan Corporation (OTC
BB:BANY) subsidiary, Chiropractic USA, Inc. (Chiropractic USA), on September
1, 2003, opened its first franchised clinics, with the conversion of various
chiropractic clinics in California, Hawaii, Michigan, Louisiana and Florida
into Chiropractic USA franchised clinics.

Banyan Chief Executive Officer Michael Gelmon said, "These established
clinics are all now operating and trading under the name 'Chiropractic USA.'
While this is only our first operational step in our franchise program, it
already represents annual system-wide revenues in excess of $6 million-and
this is just the beginning..."

ACA politico Bob Lynch, DC responded to the Chiropractic USA news by
whining: "How does this make everyone feel, when [CJ Mertz, DC] the
president of the ICA is involved in a business dealing like this one? Can DR
Mertz really say as the leader of the ICA, he is working for the profession
while involved in a business deal such as this one?"

Banyan Corporation, 800-808-0899, Investor Relations: 877-980-3114

I cc Attorney Michael at

Attorney Michael, please forward this to your business associate CJ Mertz,
DC, now president of ICA...

Maybe ICA (and Chiropractic USA) will take action before ACA...

Maybe the tiniest chiropractic patients will get help from ICA and
Chiropractic USA - while ACA picks its nose...

Anything's possible in "the fast political shuffle of chiropractic."

Bob Lynch, DC: The chiro trade unions are SUPPOSED to be working FIRST for
patients and public health - and THEN for chiropractic - or do I have that
backwards?

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