Pregnant? Chiropractic, by definition...

CHIROPRACTIC, BY DEFINITION... Dr. Ryan T. Jenkins, see below.

PREGNANT? OBs and CNMwives are closing birth canals up to 30%. See PROOF
in the postscript.

OBs are performing GRUESOME mass spinal manipulation on babies - violently
pushing on tiny spines (with oxytocin and Cytotec) and gruesomely pulling
(with hands, forceps and vacuums) - with birth canals senselessly closed up
to 30%.

Sometimes OBs pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.
Some babies die, some babies get paralyzed - most babies "only" have their
spines gruesomely wrenched.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal closed up to 30%.

For simple instructions on how to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra"
up to 30%, see the very end of this post.


CHIROPRACTIC, BY DEFINITION...

"Chiropractic, by definition, cannot be fragmented; it has to be holistic in
its approach or it will cease to exist."
--Ryan T. Jenkins, DC, CSCS
http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/22/14/09.html

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)

Ryan T. Jenkins, DC, CSCS
Germantown, Maryland


Ryan,

I wrote the definition of chiropractic for Dorland's Illustrated Medical
Dictionary [1988,1994,2000]

I agree: Chiropractic, by definition, cannot be fragmented, it has to be
holistic in its approach.

Accordng to Dr. DD Palmer, chiropractors were to practice obstetrics, "the
art of midwifery." [1910:789]

I'm NOT saying that doctors of chiropractic should start attending
homebirths again...

But with obstetricians and midwives knowingly closing birth canals up to 30%
and gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines (see PROOF below)...

The chiropractic profession is missing a golden opportunity to do some
NON-SPINAL chiropractic adjusting which will save tiny lives and tiny limbs
and PREVENT more vertebral subluxations than DCs will ever be able to adjust
by hand.

See: I ain't no Semmelweis, but...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2591



With the chiropractic trade unions dragging their feet...

Fortunately, ANYONE - licensed, degreed, or not - can engage in the
requisite non-spinal (educational) chiropractic adjusting.

See Canadians to 'delist' OB spinal manipulation (with birth
canal closed up to 30%)?
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2578

And see: Fitness trainers to prevent birth injuries? (also: Stress,
chiropractic
and natural childbirth)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2584


ONE LAST NOTE, RYAN...

You write: "[i]n general, the practice of medicine is merit-based..."
http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/22/14/09.html

In general, the practice of American medicine is an obvious criminal
enterprise.

See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of
Medicine
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256

Much "merit" in medicine = silence about obvious MD crime.

JUST THINK The most prolific spinal manipulators in America -
MD-obstetricians - are the WORST spinal manipulators in America.

Let's at least bring some merit to the spinal manipulation end of medicine.

Please help stop OBs and CNMwives from closing birth canals.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS PROOF that OBs and CNMwives are routinely closing birth canals up to
30%...

The fact that semisitting and dorsal close the birth canal is simple
biomechanics.

See Gastaldo TD. Letter. Birth 1992;19(4):230.

Here's my source for the 30% figure...

"[T]he outlet increases with moulding by approximately 20-30 per cent."
--Russell JGB. Moulding of the pelvic outlet. J Obstet Gynaec Brit Cwlth
1969;76:817-20.

NOTE: In 1973, Ohlsen verified Russell's 20% figure on
Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 intrapartum x-rays. Ohlsen pointed out that the
authors of Williams Obstetrics were claiming that the pelvic diameters
*don't
change* during delivery (!) - so the authors of Williams Obstetrics decided
(erroneously) that dorsal delivery widens!

Interestingly, early last century, J. Whitridge Williams, MD, the original
author of Williams Obstetrics demonstrated MASSIVE amounts of change in
pelvic outlet diameter change at-term - and Borell and Fernstrom's 1957
intrapartum x-ray study accorded with the average amount of pelvic outlet
diameter change Williams found clinically...

See: http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html

Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the British National Health
Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal
Institute/WMPI states the grisly biomechanics of the semirecumbent
delivery position (semisitting):

"...the weight of the mother is in part taken on the sacrum which is
therefore pushed upwards, thus decreasing the antero-posterior diameter of
the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm

The funny thing is, Jason Gardosi, MD also *recommends* semisitting (closing
the birth canal) - or used to!

"The second stage...You might want to remain in bed with your back propped
up with pillows...As you push, try to let yourself 'open up' below..."
http://www.preg.info/book/chapter11.htm

NOTE: Jason Gardosi, MD and his fellow British OB pal Malcolm Griffiths once
got me censored from an international OB/GYN listserv - but fortunately not
before two of my posts were archived thereon:
http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html
http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0153.html

Anyone interested in some entertaining obstetric reading, check out Jason's
1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" - where nobody
squatted...

See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084

MORE PROOF According to the Merck Manual:

"When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to
increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet..."
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp

WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the
head is
out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet
diameter?

WHY are OBs and CNMwives forcing babies' heads through birth canals
senselessly closed up to 30%?

WHY are OBs and CNMwives KEEPING birth canals closed when babies' shoulders
get stuck?

(Merely hyperflexing the thighs does NOT get the woman off her sacrum. This
is BAD McRoberts maneuver. ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Gardosi et al.'s WMPI site
(quoted above) recommends a version of GOOD McRoberts
if the shoulders get stuck...
http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm)

LADIES: HELP PROTECT YOUR VAGINAS...

OBs and CNMwives are slicing vaginas (euphemism "routine episiotomy") -
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything possible is being done to OPEN
birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%!

See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of
Medicine
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256

Sorry to be repetitive but...

WEIRD: In 1993, the authors of Williams Obstetrics published the correct
biomechanics at my request but they left in their text (in the same
paragraph!) the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to
their text.

The "dorsal widens" bald lie was created when Ohlsen informed the authors of
Williams Obstetrics in 1973 that they were still claiming that the pelvic
diameters *don't change* at delivery!

ALSO WEIRD: Before Ohlsen stimulated their "dorsal widens" bald lie, the
authors of Williams Obstetrics were ignoring Borell and Fernstrom's 1957
RADIOGRAPHIC demonstration that the diameters DO change - and this MANY
years after (way back in 1911) J. Whitridge Williams, MD - the first author
of Williams Obstetrics - clinically demonstrated 4cm of AP outlet diameter
change!

For details: See my Open Letter to FTC at:
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html


SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the
"extra" up
to 30%.
Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on
hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc.

BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (closing the birth canal!)
--Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones
and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839]

Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative"
delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close
your birth canal!) as you push your baby out!

If your baby's shoulders get stuck OBs and CNMwives will KEEP your birth
canal closed!

Yale CNMwifery Prof. Varney (just cited) writes:

"In the event of...shoulder dystocia...the woman should be
in a lithotomy position..." (p. 839)

Lithotomy position keeps the birth canal closed! So does semisitting!

Talk to your CNMwife or MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see
"Criminal medical CAM," URL above.)

CNMwives/MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first
get the
woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


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