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Grandma's hip osteoarthritis
GRANDMA'S HIP OSTEOARTHRITS
COULD IT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED? "Acetabular Rim Syndrome in Young Adults: A Major Cause of Osteoarthritis of the Hip..." --Warren Hammer, MS, DC, DABCO http://www.chiroweb.com/columnist/hammer/index.html OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com) Warren Hammer, MS, DC, DABCO Norwalk, Connecticut Warren, In 1953, Harrison et al. called hip osteoarthritis "the commonest clinical site of severe osteoarthritis." [Harrison et al. J Bone Joint Surg 1953;35B(4):598-626]... You say of hip osteoarthritis that it "may be crucial" to recognize "acetabular rim syndrome" before development of hip osteoarthritis. You write: "Acetabular dysplasia causes secondary osteoarthritis in 25 percent to 50 percent of patients by the age of 50 years...recognizing what is sometimes called 'acetabular rim syndrome' before the development of this disease may be crucial..." http://www.chiroweb.com/columnist/hammer/index.html You indicate that the hip motions of "flexion, adduction and internal rotation" will cause early acetabular rim symptoms "due to overload of the acetabular rim." Aren't flexion, adduction and internal rotation the hip motions of the fundamental human rest posture called squatting? See the photos of two different flat-footed squats in Fahrni WH. Orth Clin N Am 1975;6(1):93-103. In one photo (p. 94), the feet and knees are adjacent. In another (p. 95), the feet are shoulder-width apart and the knees are spread wide. Can it be that people in squatting cultures are somehow paradoxically AVOIDING "overload of the acetabular rim" by squatting daily - i.e. - by daily PERFORMING hip "flexion, adduction and internal rotation"? I ask because in 1974, orthopedic surgeon DR Gunn exclaimed "Don't sit: Squat!" in an article in which he noted "the virtually complete absence of primary degenerative arthritis of the hip" in Southeast Asians... [Gunn DR Don't sit: Squat! Clin Orth Rel Res 1974(103):104-5. Taken from a larger article by Gunn in the Indian Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery] In 2002, Nevitt et al. studied Chinese elderly in Beijing, China and wrote: "[H]ip OA was 80-90% less frequent than in white persons in the US." See Nevitt MC, Xu L, Zhang Y, Lui LY, Yu W, Lane NE, Qin M, Hochberg MC, Cummings SR, Felson DT. Very low prevalence of hip osteoarthritis among Chinese elderly in Beijing, China, compared with whites in the United States: the Beijing osteoarthritis study. Arthritis Rheum. 2002 Jul;46(7):1773-9. PubMed abstract] Nevitt et al. concluded: "Identification of the genetic and environmental factors that underlie these differences may help elucidate the etiology and prevention of hip OA." What if (as suggested by Gunn and others) the etiology of much hip osteoarthritis is the fact that we chair-dwellers - as a consequence of our chair-dwelling - fail to take our hips through the full range of motion - as we lose a fundamental human rest posture? See Biomechanics experts to help babies? http://health.groups.yahoo.com /group/chiro-list/message/1693 Canadian orthopedic surgeon W. Harry Fahrni (citied above) recommended allowing and encouraging children to maintain their innate flat-footed squatting ability into adulthood. Fahrni's recommendation accords with your "conservative treatment" for acetabular rim syndrome. ("Conservative treatment, consisting of flexibility stretching and strengthening of the pelvic and lower extremity muscles, should be attempted.") Warren, thank you for your article, "Acetabular Rim Syndrome in Young Adults: A Major Cause of Osteoarthritis of the Hip..." Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo Hillsboro, Oregon PS As an aside, Grandma's stroke risk is the same as baby granddaughter's stroke risk... See Baby stroke risk = elderly stroke risk (Lee et al. UCSF) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3728 I believe obstetricians are causing strokes in babies via gruesome spinal manipulation - closing birth canals up to 30% (semisitting and dorsal delivery) and KEEPING birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% (keeping women semisitting or dorsal) when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords. It's a chiropractic emergency, Warren. I mention the chiropractic emergency for obvious reasons - but also because it's relevant to this post: Obstetricians have blamed their bizarre practice of closing birth canals up to 30% on our culture-wide loss of the easy squatting ability. See British obstetrician Jason Gardosi et al.'s 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" where nobody squatted because - ostensibly - sedentary Western women cannot squat well enough to deliver squatting. NOTE #1: It took some time, but Gardosi now RECOMMENDS squatting at delivery - this after assuring me in a personal letter in 1990 that two British trials had demonstrated that squatting delivery is "definitely NOT an option." (Emphasis Gardosi's - LOL!) NOTE #2: Women do NOT have to squat to allow their birth canals to open the "extra" up to 30%. See ACOG's 2005 edition: How NOT to birth http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3606 I may as well mention UNNECESSARY C-SECTIONS and UNNECESSARY EPISIOTOMIES... As noted at the just cited URL, obstetricians are slicing vaginas and abdomens en masse (episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are doing/have done everything to open birth canals - even as they close birth canals up to 30%. Of course, compelling obstetricians to allow birth canals to open maximally will not prevent all c-sections or episiotomies or forceps use - but obstetricians have no business keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck. Similarly, Western culture has no business robbing children of their innate, comfortable prolonged flat-footed squatting ability - regardless whether squatting prevents hip osteoarthritis. Warren, feel free to reproduce this email, in its entirety, anywhere you like. This Open Letter to Warren Hammer, MS, DC, DABCO will be archived for global access in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for "Grandma's hip osteoarthritis" |
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