*Chiropractic* causes apnea in babies?

PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and
routinely keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck.

It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See THE SOLUTION at the very end of this post.



*CHIROPRACTIC* CAUSES APNEA IN BABIES?

What exactly do Paul L.P. Brand, MD et al. [2005] mean by "manual therapy"?

And why the deafening silence about the gruesome spinal manipulation of
MD-obstetricians the most prolific spinal manipulators? (More on this
below.)

Here's the apnea in babies/"manual therapy" quote...

Brand et al.^^^ write:

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual therapy of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the [kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Paul L.P. Brand, MD

Isala Klinieken
Amalia kinderafdeling
Postbus 10.500
8000 GM Zwolle
THE NETHERLANDS


Paul,

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters below.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


OPEN LETTER #1

Emergency room physician Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD/Kim et al.^^^ write:

"Given the growing evidence of benefits and hazards from popular
CAM...therapies [e.g. chiropractic], [emergency department/ED] staff should
consider raising this health issue with their patients."
[Acad Emerg Med. 2005 Apr;12(4):377-80. PubMed abstract]

^^^Kim S, Hohrmann JL, Clark S, Munoz KN, Braun JE, Doshi A, Radeos MS,
Camargo CA Jr.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
326 Cambridge Street
Suite 410, Boston, MA 02114


Carlos,

I suspect by your mention hazards of chiropractic that you are alluding to
hazards of spinal manipulation.

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that CAM spinal manipulation
injuries happen FAR more frequently in hospitals.

Hospital-based CAM spinal manipulators (MD-obstetricians) are closing birth
canals up to 30%, keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when
babies get stuck - and pulling with hands forceps and vacuum extractors.

Sometimes hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) pull so hard
they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" suffer gruesome
spinal manipulation.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly closed
the "extra" up to 30%. (Remember: OBs are KEEPING birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands, forceps
and vacuums.. See OB Lie #4 below.)

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are slicing vaginas/abdomens en masse
(episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals even as they CLOSE
birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

Emergency department/ED staffs should immediately stop hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) from closing birth canals the "extra" up to
30%.

It's an emergency.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 I suspect hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are
committing child abuse - so I have been reporting it...

See Women can sue: UCLA OBs slicing vaginas illegally: It's sexual
assault
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3404

PS2 THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in 1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - BUT BEWARE - some OBs
will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.



OPEN LETTER #2


UCSF: COULD OBs BE CAUSING STROKES IN BABIES?

See below.

STROKES IN BABIES --- CEREBRAL PALSY

"[The rate of p]erinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAS)...a common cause of
hemiplegic cerebral palsy...increased dramatically when multiple risk
factors were present."
--Janet Lee, MS et al.^^^ JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):723-9. PubMed abstract

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/6/723

^^^Janet Lee, MS; Lisa A. Croen, PhD; Kendall H. Backstrand, BA; Cathleen K.
Yoshida, MS; Louis H. Henning, BA; Camilla Lindan, MD; Donna M. Ferriero,
MD; Heather J. Fullerton, MD; A. J. Barkovich, MD; Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Janet Lee, MS et al. via:

Lisa A. Croen, PhD
Division of Research
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif. 94612, USA.


Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
94143-0136, USA


Janet Lee, MS et al.,

I recently reported to UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross that UCLA
MD-obstetricians may be causing stroke in some infants because they
routinely close birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

I am interested in your professional opinions.

Could the fact that MD-obstetricians routinely close birth canals up to 30%
and keep birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck
have anything to do with the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic stroke/PAS?

I ask because you wrote that the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic stroke
(PAS) increased dramatically when multiple risk factors were present...

Some of the risk factors you listed are quite relevant to the grisly
spectacle of OBs routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and routinely
keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck, as in,

FETAL HEART RATE ABNORMALITY: Over three times as many stroke infants vs.
control infants. (46% vs 14%, P.001)

PROLONGED SECOND STAGE: Over five times as many stroke infants vs. control
infants. (25% vs 4%, P.001)

EMERGENCY CESAREAN DELIVERY: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control
infants.(35% vs 13%, P = .002)

(OR)

VACUUM EXTRACTION: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control infants
(24% vs 11%, P = .04),

Of course, regardless whether MD-obstetricians are causing strokes in
babies...

MD-obstetricians have no business closing birth canals up to 30% or keeping
birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - or lying
to cover-up. See the Four OB Lies below.

It's mass child abuse - which is why I reported it to UCLA Chief of Police
Karl T. Ross, mentioned above.

The MDs among you are mandatory suspected child abuse reporters. If you
suspect child abuse - please immediately report - it's the law.

BTW, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students, MDs
are TRAINED to perform child abuse.

More mass child abuse - perhaps also (perhaps) relevant to strokes in
infants...

MD-obstetricians at UCLA are "usually" clamping umbilical cords "within 15
to 20 seconds" - which means they are routinely robbing babies of massive
amounts of blood volume - which may have some bearing on the infant stroke
rate.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Born and raised in LA County
Graduated UCLA (Biochem 1975)
Graduated Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (DC, 1979)
Living in Hillsboro, Oregon
(503) 640-0456


PS THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in 1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.

Copied to: UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross via .

END the Open Letters Dr. Gastaldo sends to Dr. Brand


The MD-obstetrician spinal manipulation crime is so obvious - the silence of
chiropractors so deafening - it would not surprise me to learn that MDs
(Brand et al. and Kim et al., see above) are doing studies to KEEP
chiropractors cowed into silence out of fear that THEIR (the chiropractors')
spinal manipulation practices will be adversely effected if they speak out
to stop MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals up to 30% and
gruesomely - sometimes fatally - manipulating most babies' spines.

As a doctor of chiropractic myself, it was very difficult to put on my
subject line Brand et al.'s indication of apnea in babies being caused by
MDs and others who manipulate the spines of babies...

But there it was right smack in the medical literature...

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual therapy of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the [kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

I am reassessing my own recommendation that mothers take their babies to
doctors of chiropractic - or any other practitioners who manipulate babies'
spines.

Some (most?) doctors of chiropractic are SO gentle - but until I know what
Brand et. al. meant by "manual therapy" well....22% is a big number...I
don't think babies should be made to suffer apnea during spinal
manipulation...

MDs and others who treat KISS (or vertebral subluxation) with spinal
manipulation must be made aware of the report of Brand et al.

Pregnant women must also be made aware of Brand et al.'s report.

Hence this post to the usenet newsgroup misc.kids.pregnancy.

To Dr. Brand I say again...

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters [above].

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.


This Open Letter to Paul L.P. Brand, MD will be archived for global access
in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for
"Chiropractic causes apnea in babies?"

"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...
PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and
routinely keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck.

REPLY

Todd,

This is news to everybody. Can you please
post at least once or twice per month more?

Joel



It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See THE SOLUTION at the very end of this post.



*CHIROPRACTIC* CAUSES APNEA IN BABIES?

What exactly do Paul L.P. Brand, MD et al. [2005] mean by "manual
therapy"?

And why the deafening silence about the gruesome spinal manipulation of
MD-obstetricians the most prolific spinal manipulators? (More on this
below.)

Here's the apnea in babies/"manual therapy" quote...

Brand et al.^^^ write:

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Paul L.P. Brand, MD

Isala Klinieken
Amalia kinderafdeling
Postbus 10.500
8000 GM Zwolle
THE NETHERLANDS


Paul,

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters below.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


OPEN LETTER #1

Emergency room physician Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD/Kim et al.^^^ write:

"Given the growing evidence of benefits and hazards from popular
CAM...therapies [e.g. chiropractic], [emergency department/ED] staff
should
consider raising this health issue with their patients."
[Acad Emerg Med. 2005 Apr;12(4):377-80. PubMed abstract]

^^^Kim S, Hohrmann JL, Clark S, Munoz KN, Braun JE, Doshi A, Radeos MS,
Camargo CA Jr.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
326 Cambridge Street
Suite 410, Boston, MA 02114


Carlos,

I suspect by your mention hazards of chiropractic that you are alluding to
hazards of spinal manipulation.

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that CAM spinal
manipulation
injuries happen FAR more frequently in hospitals.

Hospital-based CAM spinal manipulators (MD-obstetricians) are closing
birth
canals up to 30%, keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when
babies get stuck - and pulling with hands forceps and vacuum extractors.

Sometimes hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) pull so hard
they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" suffer gruesome
spinal manipulation.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly
closed
the "extra" up to 30%. (Remember: OBs are KEEPING birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands, forceps
and vacuums.. See OB Lie #4 below.)

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are slicing vaginas/abdomens en masse
(episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals even as they
CLOSE
birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

Emergency department/ED staffs should immediately stop hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) from closing birth canals the "extra" up
to
30%.

It's an emergency.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 I suspect hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are
committing child abuse - so I have been reporting it...

See Women can sue: UCLA OBs slicing vaginas illegally: It's sexual
assault
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3404

PS2 THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in 1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - BUT BEWARE - some
OBs
will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery positions - but will
roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.



OPEN LETTER #2


UCSF: COULD OBs BE CAUSING STROKES IN BABIES?

See below.

STROKES IN BABIES --- CEREBRAL PALSY

"[The rate of p]erinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAS)...a common cause
of
hemiplegic cerebral palsy...increased dramatically when multiple risk
factors were present."
--Janet Lee, MS et al.^^^ JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):723-9. PubMed abstract

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/6/723

^^^Janet Lee, MS; Lisa A. Croen, PhD; Kendall H. Backstrand, BA; Cathleen
K.
Yoshida, MS; Louis H. Henning, BA; Camilla Lindan, MD; Donna M. Ferriero,
MD; Heather J. Fullerton, MD; A. J. Barkovich, MD; Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Janet Lee, MS et al. via:

Lisa A. Croen, PhD
Division of Research
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif. 94612, USA.


Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
94143-0136, USA


Janet Lee, MS et al.,

I recently reported to UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross that UCLA
MD-obstetricians may be causing stroke in some infants because they
routinely close birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

I am interested in your professional opinions.

Could the fact that MD-obstetricians routinely close birth canals up to
30%
and keep birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck
have anything to do with the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke/PAS?

I ask because you wrote that the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke
(PAS) increased dramatically when multiple risk factors were present...

Some of the risk factors you listed are quite relevant to the grisly
spectacle of OBs routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and routinely
keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck, as in,

FETAL HEART RATE ABNORMALITY: Over three times as many stroke infants vs.
control infants. (46% vs 14%, P.001)

PROLONGED SECOND STAGE: Over five times as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants. (25% vs 4%, P.001)

EMERGENCY CESAREAN DELIVERY: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control
infants.(35% vs 13%, P = .002)

(OR)

VACUUM EXTRACTION: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control infants
(24% vs 11%, P = .04),

Of course, regardless whether MD-obstetricians are causing strokes in
babies...

MD-obstetricians have no business closing birth canals up to 30% or
keeping
birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - or lying
to cover-up. See the Four OB Lies below.

It's mass child abuse - which is why I reported it to UCLA Chief of Police
Karl T. Ross, mentioned above.

The MDs among you are mandatory suspected child abuse reporters. If you
suspect child abuse - please immediately report - it's the law.

BTW, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students,
MDs
are TRAINED to perform child abuse.

More mass child abuse - perhaps also (perhaps) relevant to strokes in
infants...

MD-obstetricians at UCLA are "usually" clamping umbilical cords "within 15
to 20 seconds" - which means they are routinely robbing babies of massive
amounts of blood volume - which may have some bearing on the infant stroke
rate.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Born and raised in LA County
Graduated UCLA (Biochem 1975)
Graduated Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (DC, 1979)
Living in Hillsboro, Oregon
(503) 640-0456


PS THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in 1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.

Copied to: UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross via .

END the Open Letters Dr. Gastaldo sends to Dr. Brand


The MD-obstetrician spinal manipulation crime is so obvious - the silence
of
chiropractors so deafening - it would not surprise me to learn that MDs
(Brand et al. and Kim et al., see above) are doing studies to KEEP
chiropractors cowed into silence out of fear that THEIR (the
chiropractors')
spinal manipulation practices will be adversely effected if they speak out
to stop MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals up to 30% and
gruesomely - sometimes fatally - manipulating most babies' spines.

As a doctor of chiropractic myself, it was very difficult to put on my
subject line Brand et al.'s indication of apnea in babies being caused by
MDs and others who manipulate the spines of babies...

But there it was right smack in the medical literature...

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

I am reassessing my own recommendation that mothers take their babies to
doctors of chiropractic - or any other practitioners who manipulate
babies'
spines.

Some (most?) doctors of chiropractic are SO gentle - but until I know what
Brand et. al. meant by "manual therapy" well....22% is a big number...I
don't think babies should be made to suffer apnea during spinal
manipulation...

MDs and others who treat KISS (or vertebral subluxation) with spinal
manipulation must be made aware of the report of Brand et al.

Pregnant women must also be made aware of Brand et al.'s report.

Hence this post to the usenet newsgroup misc.kids.pregnancy.

To Dr. Brand I say again...

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters [above].

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.


This Open Letter to Paul L.P. Brand, MD will be archived for global access
in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for
"Chiropractic causes apnea in babies?"

Todd, one chiropractor around here who was
opening birth canals got in huge trouble for it.

joel



"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...

"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...
PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and
routinely keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck.

REPLY

Todd,

This is news to everybody. Can you please
post at least once or twice per month more?

Joel



It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See THE SOLUTION at the very end of this post.



*CHIROPRACTIC* CAUSES APNEA IN BABIES?

What exactly do Paul L.P. Brand, MD et al. [2005] mean by "manual
therapy"?

And why the deafening silence about the gruesome spinal manipulation of
MD-obstetricians the most prolific spinal manipulators? (More on this
below.)

Here's the apnea in babies/"manual therapy" quote...

Brand et al.^^^ write:

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr
Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Paul L.P. Brand, MD

Isala Klinieken
Amalia kinderafdeling
Postbus 10.500
8000 GM Zwolle
THE NETHERLANDS


Paul,

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING
kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal
nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters below.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


OPEN LETTER #1

Emergency room physician Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD/Kim et al.^^^ write:

"Given the growing evidence of benefits and hazards from popular
CAM...therapies [e.g. chiropractic], [emergency department/ED] staff
should
consider raising this health issue with their patients."
[Acad Emerg Med. 2005 Apr;12(4):377-80. PubMed abstract]

^^^Kim S, Hohrmann JL, Clark S, Munoz KN, Braun JE, Doshi A, Radeos MS,
Camargo CA Jr.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
326 Cambridge Street
Suite 410, Boston, MA 02114


Carlos,

I suspect by your mention hazards of chiropractic that you are alluding
to
hazards of spinal manipulation.

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that CAM spinal
manipulation
injuries happen FAR more frequently in hospitals.

Hospital-based CAM spinal manipulators (MD-obstetricians) are closing
birth
canals up to 30%, keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when
babies get stuck - and pulling with hands forceps and vacuum extractors.

Sometimes hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) pull so
hard
they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" suffer
gruesome
spinal manipulation.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly
closed
the "extra" up to 30%. (Remember: OBs are KEEPING birth canals closed
the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands,
forceps
and vacuums.. See OB Lie #4 below.)

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are slicing vaginas/abdomens en masse
(episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals even as they
CLOSE
birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

Emergency department/ED staffs should immediately stop hospital-based
CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) from closing birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30%.

It's an emergency.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 I suspect hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are
committing child abuse - so I have been reporting it...

See Women can sue: UCLA OBs slicing vaginas illegally: It's sexual
assault
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3404

PS2 THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum
births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who
engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - BUT BEWARE - some
OBs
will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery positions - but will
roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.



OPEN LETTER #2


UCSF: COULD OBs BE CAUSING STROKES IN BABIES?

See below.

STROKES IN BABIES --- CEREBRAL PALSY

"[The rate of p]erinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAS)...a common cause
of
hemiplegic cerebral palsy...increased dramatically when multiple risk
factors were present."
--Janet Lee, MS et al.^^^ JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):723-9. PubMed abstract

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/6/723

^^^Janet Lee, MS; Lisa A. Croen, PhD; Kendall H. Backstrand, BA;
Cathleen
K.
Yoshida, MS; Louis H. Henning, BA; Camilla Lindan, MD; Donna M.
Ferriero,
MD; Heather J. Fullerton, MD; A. J. Barkovich, MD; Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Janet Lee, MS et al. via:

Lisa A. Croen, PhD
Division of Research
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif. 94612, USA.


Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
94143-0136, USA


Janet Lee, MS et al.,

I recently reported to UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross that UCLA
MD-obstetricians may be causing stroke in some infants because they
routinely close birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

I am interested in your professional opinions.

Could the fact that MD-obstetricians routinely close birth canals up to
30%
and keep birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck
have anything to do with the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke/PAS?

I ask because you wrote that the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke
(PAS) increased dramatically when multiple risk factors were present...

Some of the risk factors you listed are quite relevant to the grisly
spectacle of OBs routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and routinely
keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck, as in,

FETAL HEART RATE ABNORMALITY: Over three times as many stroke infants
vs.
control infants. (46% vs 14%, P.001)

PROLONGED SECOND STAGE: Over five times as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants. (25% vs 4%, P.001)

EMERGENCY CESAREAN DELIVERY: Over twice as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants.(35% vs 13%, P = .002)

(OR)

VACUUM EXTRACTION: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control
infants
(24% vs 11%, P = .04),

Of course, regardless whether MD-obstetricians are causing strokes in
babies...

MD-obstetricians have no business closing birth canals up to 30% or
keeping
birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - or
lying
to cover-up. See the Four OB Lies below.

It's mass child abuse - which is why I reported it to UCLA Chief of
Police
Karl T. Ross, mentioned above.

The MDs among you are mandatory suspected child abuse reporters. If you
suspect child abuse - please immediately report - it's the law.

BTW, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students,
MDs
are TRAINED to perform child abuse.

More mass child abuse - perhaps also (perhaps) relevant to strokes in
infants...

MD-obstetricians at UCLA are "usually" clamping umbilical cords "within
15
to 20 seconds" - which means they are routinely robbing babies of
massive
amounts of blood volume - which may have some bearing on the infant
stroke
rate.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Born and raised in LA County
Graduated UCLA (Biochem 1975)
Graduated Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (DC, 1979)
Living in Hillsboro, Oregon
(503) 640-0456


PS THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum
births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who
engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative
delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.

Copied to: UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross via .

END the Open Letters Dr. Gastaldo sends to Dr. Brand


The MD-obstetrician spinal manipulation crime is so obvious - the
silence
of
chiropractors so deafening - it would not surprise me to learn that MDs
(Brand et al. and Kim et al., see above) are doing studies to KEEP
chiropractors cowed into silence out of fear that THEIR (the
chiropractors')
spinal manipulation practices will be adversely effected if they speak
out
to stop MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals up to 30% and
gruesomely - sometimes fatally - manipulating most babies' spines.

As a doctor of chiropractic myself, it was very difficult to put on my
subject line Brand et al.'s indication of apnea in babies being caused
by
MDs and others who manipulate the spines of babies...

But there it was right smack in the medical literature...

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr
Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

I am reassessing my own recommendation that mothers take their babies to
doctors of chiropractic - or any other practitioners who manipulate
babies'
spines.

Some (most?) doctors of chiropractic are SO gentle - but until I know
what
Brand et. al. meant by "manual therapy" well....22% is a big number...I
don't think babies should be made to suffer apnea during spinal
manipulation...

MDs and others who treat KISS (or vertebral subluxation) with spinal
manipulation must be made aware of the report of Brand et al.

Pregnant women must also be made aware of Brand et al.'s report.

Hence this post to the usenet newsgroup misc.kids.pregnancy.

To Dr. Brand I say again...

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING
kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal
nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters [above].

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative
delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.


This Open Letter to Paul L.P. Brand, MD will be archived for global
access
in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for
"Chiropractic causes apnea in babies?"

"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...

"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...
PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and
routinely keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck.

REPLY

Todd,

This is news to everybody. Can you please
post at least once or twice per month more?


I will try. : )

Seriously though Joel...

The grisly spectacle of OBs closing birth canasl up to 30% is news to
thousands of babies per day up-close-and-personal.

The grisly OB crime is also news to many (most?) new PREGNANT LURKERS -
which is why I post this news daily.

This is a NEWSgroup after all.

Todd

Joel



It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See THE SOLUTION at the very end of this post.



*CHIROPRACTIC* CAUSES APNEA IN BABIES?

What exactly do Paul L.P. Brand, MD et al. [2005] mean by "manual
therapy"?

And why the deafening silence about the gruesome spinal manipulation of
MD-obstetricians the most prolific spinal manipulators? (More on this
below.)

Here's the apnea in babies/"manual therapy" quote...

Brand et al.^^^ write:

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Paul L.P. Brand, MD

Isala Klinieken
Amalia kinderafdeling
Postbus 10.500
8000 GM Zwolle
THE NETHERLANDS


Paul,

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters below.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


OPEN LETTER #1

Emergency room physician Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD/Kim et al.^^^ write:

"Given the growing evidence of benefits and hazards from popular
CAM...therapies [e.g. chiropractic], [emergency department/ED] staff
should
consider raising this health issue with their patients."
[Acad Emerg Med. 2005 Apr;12(4):377-80. PubMed abstract]

^^^Kim S, Hohrmann JL, Clark S, Munoz KN, Braun JE, Doshi A, Radeos MS,
Camargo CA Jr.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
326 Cambridge Street
Suite 410, Boston, MA 02114


Carlos,

I suspect by your mention hazards of chiropractic that you are alluding
to
hazards of spinal manipulation.

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that CAM spinal
manipulation
injuries happen FAR more frequently in hospitals.

Hospital-based CAM spinal manipulators (MD-obstetricians) are closing
birth
canals up to 30%, keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when
babies get stuck - and pulling with hands forceps and vacuum extractors.

Sometimes hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) pull so
hard
they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" suffer gruesome
spinal manipulation.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly
closed
the "extra" up to 30%. (Remember: OBs are KEEPING birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands,
forceps
and vacuums.. See OB Lie #4 below.)

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are slicing vaginas/abdomens en masse
(episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals even as they
CLOSE
birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

Emergency department/ED staffs should immediately stop hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) from closing birth canals the "extra" up
to
30%.

It's an emergency.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 I suspect hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are
committing child abuse - so I have been reporting it...

See Women can sue: UCLA OBs slicing vaginas illegally: It's sexual
assault
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3404

PS2 THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - BUT BEWARE - some
OBs
will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery positions - but will
roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.



OPEN LETTER #2


UCSF: COULD OBs BE CAUSING STROKES IN BABIES?

See below.

STROKES IN BABIES --- CEREBRAL PALSY

"[The rate of p]erinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAS)...a common cause
of
hemiplegic cerebral palsy...increased dramatically when multiple risk
factors were present."
--Janet Lee, MS et al.^^^ JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):723-9. PubMed abstract

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/6/723

^^^Janet Lee, MS; Lisa A. Croen, PhD; Kendall H. Backstrand, BA; Cathleen
K.
Yoshida, MS; Louis H. Henning, BA; Camilla Lindan, MD; Donna M. Ferriero,
MD; Heather J. Fullerton, MD; A. J. Barkovich, MD; Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Janet Lee, MS et al. via:

Lisa A. Croen, PhD
Division of Research
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif. 94612, USA.


Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
94143-0136, USA


Janet Lee, MS et al.,

I recently reported to UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross that UCLA
MD-obstetricians may be causing stroke in some infants because they
routinely close birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

I am interested in your professional opinions.

Could the fact that MD-obstetricians routinely close birth canals up to
30%
and keep birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck
have anything to do with the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke/PAS?

I ask because you wrote that the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke
(PAS) increased dramatically when multiple risk factors were present...

Some of the risk factors you listed are quite relevant to the grisly
spectacle of OBs routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and routinely
keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck, as in,

FETAL HEART RATE ABNORMALITY: Over three times as many stroke infants
vs.
control infants. (46% vs 14%, P.001)

PROLONGED SECOND STAGE: Over five times as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants. (25% vs 4%, P.001)

EMERGENCY CESAREAN DELIVERY: Over twice as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants.(35% vs 13%, P = .002)

(OR)

VACUUM EXTRACTION: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control infants
(24% vs 11%, P = .04),

Of course, regardless whether MD-obstetricians are causing strokes in
babies...

MD-obstetricians have no business closing birth canals up to 30% or
keeping
birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - or
lying
to cover-up. See the Four OB Lies below.

It's mass child abuse - which is why I reported it to UCLA Chief of
Police
Karl T. Ross, mentioned above.

The MDs among you are mandatory suspected child abuse reporters. If you
suspect child abuse - please immediately report - it's the law.

BTW, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students,
MDs
are TRAINED to perform child abuse.

More mass child abuse - perhaps also (perhaps) relevant to strokes in
infants...

MD-obstetricians at UCLA are "usually" clamping umbilical cords "within
15
to 20 seconds" - which means they are routinely robbing babies of massive
amounts of blood volume - which may have some bearing on the infant
stroke
rate.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Born and raised in LA County
Graduated UCLA (Biochem 1975)
Graduated Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (DC, 1979)
Living in Hillsboro, Oregon
(503) 640-0456


PS THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.

Copied to: UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross via .

END the Open Letters Dr. Gastaldo sends to Dr. Brand


The MD-obstetrician spinal manipulation crime is so obvious - the silence
of
chiropractors so deafening - it would not surprise me to learn that MDs
(Brand et al. and Kim et al., see above) are doing studies to KEEP
chiropractors cowed into silence out of fear that THEIR (the
chiropractors')
spinal manipulation practices will be adversely effected if they speak
out
to stop MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals up to 30% and
gruesomely - sometimes fatally - manipulating most babies' spines.

As a doctor of chiropractic myself, it was very difficult to put on my
subject line Brand et al.'s indication of apnea in babies being caused by
MDs and others who manipulate the spines of babies...

But there it was right smack in the medical literature...

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

I am reassessing my own recommendation that mothers take their babies to
doctors of chiropractic - or any other practitioners who manipulate
babies'
spines.

Some (most?) doctors of chiropractic are SO gentle - but until I know
what
Brand et. al. meant by "manual therapy" well....22% is a big number...I
don't think babies should be made to suffer apnea during spinal
manipulation...

MDs and others who treat KISS (or vertebral subluxation) with spinal
manipulation must be made aware of the report of Brand et al.

Pregnant women must also be made aware of Brand et al.'s report.

Hence this post to the usenet newsgroup misc.kids.pregnancy.

To Dr. Brand I say again...

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters [above].

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra" up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.


This Open Letter to Paul L.P. Brand, MD will be archived for global
access
in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for
"Chiropractic causes apnea in babies?"

"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...
Todd, one chiropractor around here who was
opening birth canals got in huge trouble for it.


Joel,

You are probably referring to rape/sexual assault, as in,
"Sexual assault includes genital...penetration by part of the accused's body
or by an object...It may result from...the victim's inability to give
appropriate consent."^^^


^^^In DeCherney AH, Nathan L (eds). Current
Obstetric & Gynecologic Diagnosis & Treatment. NY: Lange Medical
Books/McGraw-Hill. Ninth Edition. 2003:1089

MDs commit rape/sexual assault all the time - it's their most frequent
surgical behavior toward females.

As I recently noted for UCLA CHIEF OF POLICE KARL T. ROSS
):

American medicine's most frequent surgical behavior toward females ("routine
episiotomy") involves SLICING of the vagina - not just penetration.


Pregnant women can't give appropriate consent for vagina slicing ("routine
episiotomy") because UCLA obstetricians aren't telling pregnant women that
they are closing birth canals up to 30% then slicing vaginas fraudulently
(to be seen as doing everything to open birth canals).


See Women can sue: UCLA OBs slicing vaginas illegally: It's sexual assault
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/3404


Todd

joel



"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...

"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...
PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and
routinely keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck.

REPLY

Todd,

This is news to everybody. Can you please
post at least once or twice per month more?

Joel



It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See THE SOLUTION at the very end of this post.



*CHIROPRACTIC* CAUSES APNEA IN BABIES?

What exactly do Paul L.P. Brand, MD et al. [2005] mean by "manual
therapy"?

And why the deafening silence about the gruesome spinal manipulation of
MD-obstetricians the most prolific spinal manipulators? (More on this
below.)

Here's the apnea in babies/"manual therapy" quote...

Brand et al.^^^ write:

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual
therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of
spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr
Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Paul L.P. Brand, MD

Isala Klinieken
Amalia kinderafdeling
Postbus 10.500
8000 GM Zwolle
THE NETHERLANDS


Paul,

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING
kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly
closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal
nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters below.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


OPEN LETTER #1

Emergency room physician Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD/Kim et al.^^^
write:

"Given the growing evidence of benefits and hazards from popular
CAM...therapies [e.g. chiropractic], [emergency department/ED] staff
should
consider raising this health issue with their patients."
[Acad Emerg Med. 2005 Apr;12(4):377-80. PubMed abstract]

^^^Kim S, Hohrmann JL, Clark S, Munoz KN, Braun JE, Doshi A, Radeos MS,
Camargo CA Jr.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
326 Cambridge Street
Suite 410, Boston, MA 02114


Carlos,

I suspect by your mention hazards of chiropractic that you are alluding
to
hazards of spinal manipulation.

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that CAM spinal
manipulation
injuries happen FAR more frequently in hospitals.

Hospital-based CAM spinal manipulators (MD-obstetricians) are closing
birth
canals up to 30%, keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30%
when
babies get stuck - and pulling with hands forceps and vacuum
extractors.

Sometimes hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) pull so
hard
they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" suffer
gruesome
spinal manipulation.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly
closed
the "extra" up to 30%. (Remember: OBs are KEEPING birth canals closed
the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands,
forceps
and vacuums.. See OB Lie #4 below.)

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are slicing vaginas/abdomens en masse
(episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals even as they
CLOSE
birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

Emergency department/ED staffs should immediately stop hospital-based
CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) from closing birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30%.

It's an emergency.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 I suspect hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are
committing child abuse - so I have been reporting it...

See Women can sue: UCLA OBs slicing vaginas illegally: It's sexual
assault
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3404

PS2 THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the
same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum
births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who
engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which
are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - BUT BEWARE -
some
OBs
will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery positions - but will
roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.



OPEN LETTER #2


UCSF: COULD OBs BE CAUSING STROKES IN BABIES?

See below.

STROKES IN BABIES --- CEREBRAL PALSY

"[The rate of p]erinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAS)...a common
cause
of
hemiplegic cerebral palsy...increased dramatically when multiple risk
factors were present."
--Janet Lee, MS et al.^^^ JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):723-9. PubMed
abstract

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/6/723

^^^Janet Lee, MS; Lisa A. Croen, PhD; Kendall H. Backstrand, BA;
Cathleen
K.
Yoshida, MS; Louis H. Henning, BA; Camilla Lindan, MD; Donna M.
Ferriero,
MD; Heather J. Fullerton, MD; A. J. Barkovich, MD; Yvonne W. Wu, MD,
MPH

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Janet Lee, MS et al. via:

Lisa A. Croen, PhD
Division of Research
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif. 94612, USA.


Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
94143-0136, USA


Janet Lee, MS et al.,

I recently reported to UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross that UCLA
MD-obstetricians may be causing stroke in some infants because they
routinely close birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

I am interested in your professional opinions.

Could the fact that MD-obstetricians routinely close birth canals up to
30%
and keep birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get
stuck
have anything to do with the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke/PAS?

I ask because you wrote that the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke
(PAS) increased dramatically when multiple risk factors were present...

Some of the risk factors you listed are quite relevant to the grisly
spectacle of OBs routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and routinely
keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck, as in,

FETAL HEART RATE ABNORMALITY: Over three times as many stroke infants
vs.
control infants. (46% vs 14%, P.001)

PROLONGED SECOND STAGE: Over five times as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants. (25% vs 4%, P.001)

EMERGENCY CESAREAN DELIVERY: Over twice as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants.(35% vs 13%, P = .002)

(OR)

VACUUM EXTRACTION: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control
infants
(24% vs 11%, P = .04),

Of course, regardless whether MD-obstetricians are causing strokes in
babies...

MD-obstetricians have no business closing birth canals up to 30% or
keeping
birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - or
lying
to cover-up. See the Four OB Lies below.

It's mass child abuse - which is why I reported it to UCLA Chief of
Police
Karl T. Ross, mentioned above.

The MDs among you are mandatory suspected child abuse reporters. If
you
suspect child abuse - please immediately report - it's the law.

BTW, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students,
MDs
are TRAINED to perform child abuse.

More mass child abuse - perhaps also (perhaps) relevant to strokes in
infants...

MD-obstetricians at UCLA are "usually" clamping umbilical cords "within
15
to 20 seconds" - which means they are routinely robbing babies of
massive
amounts of blood volume - which may have some bearing on the infant
stroke
rate.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Born and raised in LA County
Graduated UCLA (Biochem 1975)
Graduated Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (DC, 1979)
Living in Hillsboro, Oregon
(503) 640-0456


PS THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the
same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum
births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who
engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which
are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative
delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.

Copied to: UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross via .

END the Open Letters Dr. Gastaldo sends to Dr. Brand


The MD-obstetrician spinal manipulation crime is so obvious - the
silence
of
chiropractors so deafening - it would not surprise me to learn that MDs
(Brand et al. and Kim et al., see above) are doing studies to KEEP
chiropractors cowed into silence out of fear that THEIR (the
chiropractors')
spinal manipulation practices will be adversely effected if they speak
out
to stop MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals up to 30% and
gruesomely - sometimes fatally - manipulating most babies' spines.

As a doctor of chiropractic myself, it was very difficult to put on my
subject line Brand et al.'s indication of apnea in babies being caused
by
MDs and others who manipulate the spines of babies...

But there it was right smack in the medical literature...

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual
therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of
spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr
Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

I am reassessing my own recommendation that mothers take their babies
to
doctors of chiropractic - or any other practitioners who manipulate
babies'
spines.

Some (most?) doctors of chiropractic are SO gentle - but until I know
what
Brand et. al. meant by "manual therapy" well....22% is a big number...I
don't think babies should be made to suffer apnea during spinal
manipulation...

MDs and others who treat KISS (or vertebral subluxation) with spinal
manipulation must be made aware of the report of Brand et al.

Pregnant women must also be made aware of Brand et al.'s report.

Hence this post to the usenet newsgroup misc.kids.pregnancy.

To Dr. Brand I say again...

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING
kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly
closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal
nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters [above].

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative
delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.


This Open Letter to Paul L.P. Brand, MD will be archived for global
access
in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for
"Chiropractic causes apnea in babies?"

Todd I must hand it to you ........ you change your message
ever so slightly each time so I am forced to read it one more time!

Joel

If ever there was a good spammer, its you.



"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...

"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...
PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and
routinely keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck.

REPLY

Todd,

This is news to everybody. Can you please
post at least once or twice per month more?


I will try. : )

Seriously though Joel...

The grisly spectacle of OBs closing birth canasl up to 30% is news to
thousands of babies per day up-close-and-personal.

The grisly OB crime is also news to many (most?) new PREGNANT LURKERS -
which is why I post this news daily.

This is a NEWSgroup after all.

Todd

Joel



It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See THE SOLUTION at the very end of this post.



*CHIROPRACTIC* CAUSES APNEA IN BABIES?

What exactly do Paul L.P. Brand, MD et al. [2005] mean by "manual
therapy"?

And why the deafening silence about the gruesome spinal manipulation of
MD-obstetricians the most prolific spinal manipulators? (More on this
below.)

Here's the apnea in babies/"manual therapy" quote...

Brand et al.^^^ write:

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual
therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of
spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr
Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Paul L.P. Brand, MD

Isala Klinieken
Amalia kinderafdeling
Postbus 10.500
8000 GM Zwolle
THE NETHERLANDS


Paul,

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING
kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly
closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal
nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters below.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


OPEN LETTER #1

Emergency room physician Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD/Kim et al.^^^
write:

"Given the growing evidence of benefits and hazards from popular
CAM...therapies [e.g. chiropractic], [emergency department/ED] staff
should
consider raising this health issue with their patients."
[Acad Emerg Med. 2005 Apr;12(4):377-80. PubMed abstract]

^^^Kim S, Hohrmann JL, Clark S, Munoz KN, Braun JE, Doshi A, Radeos MS,
Camargo CA Jr.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
326 Cambridge Street
Suite 410, Boston, MA 02114


Carlos,

I suspect by your mention hazards of chiropractic that you are alluding
to
hazards of spinal manipulation.

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that CAM spinal
manipulation
injuries happen FAR more frequently in hospitals.

Hospital-based CAM spinal manipulators (MD-obstetricians) are closing
birth
canals up to 30%, keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30%
when
babies get stuck - and pulling with hands forceps and vacuum
extractors.

Sometimes hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) pull so
hard
they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" suffer
gruesome
spinal manipulation.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly
closed
the "extra" up to 30%. (Remember: OBs are KEEPING birth canals closed
the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands,
forceps
and vacuums.. See OB Lie #4 below.)

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that hospital-based CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are slicing vaginas/abdomens en masse
(episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals even as they
CLOSE
birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

Emergency department/ED staffs should immediately stop hospital-based
CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) from closing birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30%.

It's an emergency.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 I suspect hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are
committing child abuse - so I have been reporting it...

See Women can sue: UCLA OBs slicing vaginas illegally: It's sexual
assault
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3404

PS2 THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the
same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum
births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who
engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which
are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - BUT BEWARE -
some
OBs
will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery positions - but will
roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.



OPEN LETTER #2


UCSF: COULD OBs BE CAUSING STROKES IN BABIES?

See below.

STROKES IN BABIES --- CEREBRAL PALSY

"[The rate of p]erinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAS)...a common
cause
of
hemiplegic cerebral palsy...increased dramatically when multiple risk
factors were present."
--Janet Lee, MS et al.^^^ JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):723-9. PubMed
abstract

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/6/723

^^^Janet Lee, MS; Lisa A. Croen, PhD; Kendall H. Backstrand, BA;
Cathleen
K.
Yoshida, MS; Louis H. Henning, BA; Camilla Lindan, MD; Donna M.
Ferriero,
MD; Heather J. Fullerton, MD; A. J. Barkovich, MD; Yvonne W. Wu, MD,
MPH

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Janet Lee, MS et al. via:

Lisa A. Croen, PhD
Division of Research
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif. 94612, USA.


Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
94143-0136, USA


Janet Lee, MS et al.,

I recently reported to UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross that UCLA
MD-obstetricians may be causing stroke in some infants because they
routinely close birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

I am interested in your professional opinions.

Could the fact that MD-obstetricians routinely close birth canals up to
30%
and keep birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get
stuck
have anything to do with the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke/PAS?

I ask because you wrote that the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke
(PAS) increased dramatically when multiple risk factors were present...

Some of the risk factors you listed are quite relevant to the grisly
spectacle of OBs routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and routinely
keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck, as in,

FETAL HEART RATE ABNORMALITY: Over three times as many stroke infants
vs.
control infants. (46% vs 14%, P.001)

PROLONGED SECOND STAGE: Over five times as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants. (25% vs 4%, P.001)

EMERGENCY CESAREAN DELIVERY: Over twice as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants.(35% vs 13%, P = .002)

(OR)

VACUUM EXTRACTION: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control
infants
(24% vs 11%, P = .04),

Of course, regardless whether MD-obstetricians are causing strokes in
babies...

MD-obstetricians have no business closing birth canals up to 30% or
keeping
birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - or
lying
to cover-up. See the Four OB Lies below.

It's mass child abuse - which is why I reported it to UCLA Chief of
Police
Karl T. Ross, mentioned above.

The MDs among you are mandatory suspected child abuse reporters. If
you
suspect child abuse - please immediately report - it's the law.

BTW, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical students,
MDs
are TRAINED to perform child abuse.

More mass child abuse - perhaps also (perhaps) relevant to strokes in
infants...

MD-obstetricians at UCLA are "usually" clamping umbilical cords "within
15
to 20 seconds" - which means they are routinely robbing babies of
massive
amounts of blood volume - which may have some bearing on the infant
stroke
rate.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Born and raised in LA County
Graduated UCLA (Biochem 1975)
Graduated Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (DC, 1979)
Living in Hillsboro, Oregon
(503) 640-0456


PS THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the
same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum
births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who
engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which
are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative
delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.

Copied to: UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross via .

END the Open Letters Dr. Gastaldo sends to Dr. Brand


The MD-obstetrician spinal manipulation crime is so obvious - the
silence
of
chiropractors so deafening - it would not surprise me to learn that MDs
(Brand et al. and Kim et al., see above) are doing studies to KEEP
chiropractors cowed into silence out of fear that THEIR (the
chiropractors')
spinal manipulation practices will be adversely effected if they speak
out
to stop MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals up to 30% and
gruesomely - sometimes fatally - manipulating most babies' spines.

As a doctor of chiropractic myself, it was very difficult to put on my
subject line Brand et al.'s indication of apnea in babies being caused
by
MDs and others who manipulate the spines of babies...

But there it was right smack in the medical literature...

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual
therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of
spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr
Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

I am reassessing my own recommendation that mothers take their babies
to
doctors of chiropractic - or any other practitioners who manipulate
babies'
spines.

Some (most?) doctors of chiropractic are SO gentle - but until I know
what
Brand et. al. meant by "manual therapy" well....22% is a big number...I
don't think babies should be made to suffer apnea during spinal
manipulation...

MDs and others who treat KISS (or vertebral subluxation) with spinal
manipulation must be made aware of the report of Brand et al.

Pregnant women must also be made aware of Brand et al.'s report.

Hence this post to the usenet newsgroup misc.kids.pregnancy.

To Dr. Brand I say again...

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING
kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly
closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal
nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters [above].

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative
delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.


This Open Letter to Paul L.P. Brand, MD will be archived for global
access
in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for
"Chiropractic causes apnea in babies?"

"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...
Todd I must hand it to you ........ you change your message
ever so slightly each time so I am forced to read it one more time!

Joel

If ever there was a good spammer, its you.


Joel,

Thanks - I guess.

I forgot to mention: OBs are also routinely robbing babies of up to 50% of
their blood volume.^^^

Sorry. : )

Todd

^^^UCSF: Could OBs be causing strokes in babies? (Cerebral palsy)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3437

It was meant as a compliment!

Joel


"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...
Todd I must hand it to you ........ you change your message
ever so slightly each time so I am forced to read it one more time!

Joel

If ever there was a good spammer, its you.


Joel,

Thanks - I guess.

I forgot to mention: OBs are also routinely robbing babies of up to 50% of
their blood volume.^^^

Sorry. : )

Todd

^^^UCSF: Could OBs be causing strokes in babies? (Cerebral palsy)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3437

Gastaldo is a well know idiot. You will soon find that all your exchanges
with him were a huge waste of time. He starts off okay, then gets psychotic.
Just wait.


"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...
Todd I must hand it to you ........ you change your message
ever so slightly each time so I am forced to read it one more time!

Joel

If ever there was a good spammer, its you.



"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...

"Todd Gastaldo" wrote in message
ink.net...
PREGNANT WOMEN: OBs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and
routinely keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck.

REPLY

Todd,

This is news to everybody. Can you please
post at least once or twice per month more?


I will try. : )

Seriously though Joel...

The grisly spectacle of OBs closing birth canasl up to 30% is news to
thousands of babies per day up-close-and-personal.

The grisly OB crime is also news to many (most?) new PREGNANT LURKERS -
which is why I post this news daily.

This is a NEWSgroup after all.

Todd

Joel



It's easy to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

See THE SOLUTION at the very end of this post.



*CHIROPRACTIC* CAUSES APNEA IN BABIES?

What exactly do Paul L.P. Brand, MD et al. [2005] mean by "manual
therapy"?

And why the deafening silence about the gruesome spinal manipulation
of
MD-obstetricians the most prolific spinal manipulators? (More on this
below.)

Here's the apnea in babies/"manual therapy" quote...

Brand et al.^^^ write:

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual
therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of
spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr
Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Paul L.P. Brand, MD

Isala Klinieken
Amalia kinderafdeling
Postbus 10.500
8000 GM Zwolle
THE NETHERLANDS


Paul,

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING
kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly
closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal
nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters below.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


OPEN LETTER #1

Emergency room physician Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD/Kim et al.^^^
write:

"Given the growing evidence of benefits and hazards from popular
CAM...therapies [e.g. chiropractic], [emergency department/ED] staff
should
consider raising this health issue with their patients."
[Acad Emerg Med. 2005 Apr;12(4):377-80. PubMed abstract]

^^^Kim S, Hohrmann JL, Clark S, Munoz KN, Braun JE, Doshi A, Radeos
MS,
Camargo CA Jr.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
326 Cambridge Street
Suite 410, Boston, MA 02114


Carlos,

I suspect by your mention hazards of chiropractic that you are
alluding
to
hazards of spinal manipulation.

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that CAM spinal
manipulation
injuries happen FAR more frequently in hospitals.

Hospital-based CAM spinal manipulators (MD-obstetricians) are closing
birth
canals up to 30%, keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30%
when
babies get stuck - and pulling with hands forceps and vacuum
extractors.

Sometimes hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) pull so
hard
they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Some babies die - some babies get paralyzed - most "only" suffer
gruesome
spinal manipulation.

ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly
closed
the "extra" up to 30%. (Remember: OBs are KEEPING birth canals closed
the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - as they pull with hands,
forceps
and vacuums.. See OB Lie #4 below.)

Emergency department/ED staffs may not be aware that hospital-based
CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are slicing vaginas/abdomens en masse
(episiotomy/c-section) - surgically/fraudulently inferring they are
doing/have done everything possible to open birth canals even as they
CLOSE
birth canals the "extra" up to 30%.

Emergency department/ED staffs should immediately stop hospital-based
CAM
practitioners (MD-obstetricians) from closing birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30%.

It's an emergency.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 I suspect hospital-based CAM practitioners (MD-obstetricians) are
committing child abuse - so I have been reporting it...

See Women can sue: UCLA OBs slicing vaginas illegally: It's sexual
assault
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3404

PS2 THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so
does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the
same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my
attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies
get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth
canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum
births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who
engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which
are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be
damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to
30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - BUT BEWARE -
some
OBs
will let pregnant women "try" alternative delivery positions - but
will
roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.



OPEN LETTER #2


UCSF: COULD OBs BE CAUSING STROKES IN BABIES?

See below.

STROKES IN BABIES --- CEREBRAL PALSY

"[The rate of p]erinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAS)...a common
cause
of
hemiplegic cerebral palsy...increased dramatically when multiple risk
factors were present."
--Janet Lee, MS et al.^^^ JAMA. 2005 Feb 9;293(6):723-9. PubMed
abstract

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/6/723

^^^Janet Lee, MS; Lisa A. Croen, PhD; Kendall H. Backstrand, BA;
Cathleen
K.
Yoshida, MS; Louis H. Henning, BA; Camilla Lindan, MD; Donna M.
Ferriero,
MD; Heather J. Fullerton, MD; A. J. Barkovich, MD; Yvonne W. Wu, MD,
MPH

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access at http://groups.google.com)

Janet Lee, MS et al. via:

Lisa A. Croen, PhD
Division of Research
Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif. 94612, USA.


Yvonne W. Wu, MD, MPH
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
94143-0136, USA


Janet Lee, MS et al.,

I recently reported to UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross that UCLA
MD-obstetricians may be causing stroke in some infants because they
routinely close birth canals up to 30% and keep birth canals closed
the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

I am interested in your professional opinions.

Could the fact that MD-obstetricians routinely close birth canals up
to
30%
and keep birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get
stuck
have anything to do with the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke/PAS?

I ask because you wrote that the rate of perinatal arterial ischemic
stroke
(PAS) increased dramatically when multiple risk factors were
present...

Some of the risk factors you listed are quite relevant to the grisly
spectacle of OBs routinely closing birth canals up to 30% and
routinely
keeping birth canals closed when babies get stuck, as in,

FETAL HEART RATE ABNORMALITY: Over three times as many stroke infants
vs.
control infants. (46% vs 14%, P.001)

PROLONGED SECOND STAGE: Over five times as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants. (25% vs 4%, P.001)

EMERGENCY CESAREAN DELIVERY: Over twice as many stroke infants vs.
control
infants.(35% vs 13%, P = .002)

(OR)

VACUUM EXTRACTION: Over twice as many stroke infants vs. control
infants
(24% vs 11%, P = .04),

Of course, regardless whether MD-obstetricians are causing strokes in
babies...

MD-obstetricians have no business closing birth canals up to 30% or
keeping
birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck - or
lying
to cover-up. See the Four OB Lies below.

It's mass child abuse - which is why I reported it to UCLA Chief of
Police
Karl T. Ross, mentioned above.

The MDs among you are mandatory suspected child abuse reporters. If
you
suspect child abuse - please immediately report - it's the law.

BTW, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. As medical
students,
MDs
are TRAINED to perform child abuse.

More mass child abuse - perhaps also (perhaps) relevant to strokes in
infants...

MD-obstetricians at UCLA are "usually" clamping umbilical cords
"within
15
to 20 seconds" - which means they are routinely robbing babies of
massive
amounts of blood volume - which may have some bearing on the infant
stroke
rate.

See Strokes in babies (also: Chiro with headache and slurred speech)
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3429

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Born and raised in LA County
Graduated UCLA (Biochem 1975)
Graduated Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (DC, 1979)
Living in Hillsboro, Oregon
(503) 640-0456


PS THE FOUR OB LIES

OB LIE #1. After MASSIVE change in the AP pelvic outlet diameter was
clinically demonstrated in 1911 and radiographically demonstrated in
1957,
the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming that
pelvic
diamaters DON'T CHANGE at delivery.

OB LIE #2. After Ohlsen pointed out in 1973 that pelvic diameters DO
change - the authors of Williams Obstetrics began erroneously claiming
that
their most frequent delivery position - dorsal - widens the outlet.

OB LIE #3. After I pointed out in 1992 that dorsal CLOSES - and so
does
semisitting - the authors of Williams Obstetrics - put the correct
biomechanics in their 1993 edition - but kept in their text (in the
same
paragraph!) - the dorsal widens bald lie that first called my
attention
to
their text...

OB LIE #4. OBs are actually KEEPING birth canals closed when babies
get
stuck - and claiming they are doing everything to allow the birth
canal
open
maximally. (ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video - also forceps and vacuum
births
are performed with the mother in lithotomy.)

See Make birth better: Dan Rather, before you leave CBS...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com*/grou...t/message/2983

I noted some of the OB lies in an Open Letter to the FTC years ago...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/*part2ftc.html


RELEVANT AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS....

"[AMA physician[s] shall...strive to expose those physicians...who
engage
in
fraud or deception."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...seek changes in those requirements which
are
contrary to the best interests of the patient."

"[AMA p]hysician[s] shall...make relevant information available to
patients,
colleagues, and the public..."
http://www.psych.org/psych_pra*ct/et...ions53101*.cfm

AMA physicians are ignoring their own stated ethics - babies be
damned.

EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to
30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative
delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.

Copied to: UCLA Police Chief Karl T. Ross via .

END the Open Letters Dr. Gastaldo sends to Dr. Brand


The MD-obstetrician spinal manipulation crime is so obvious - the
silence
of
chiropractors so deafening - it would not surprise me to learn that
MDs
(Brand et al. and Kim et al., see above) are doing studies to KEEP
chiropractors cowed into silence out of fear that THEIR (the
chiropractors')
spinal manipulation practices will be adversely effected if they speak
out
to stop MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals up to 30% and
gruesomely - sometimes fatally - manipulating most babies' spines.

As a doctor of chiropractic myself, it was very difficult to put on my
subject line Brand et al.'s indication of apnea in babies being caused
by
MDs and others who manipulate the spines of babies...

But there it was right smack in the medical literature...

"...22% of infants showed short episodes of apnoea during manual
therapy
of
the spine, and...one case has been described in which such apnoea
resulted
in death...Given the absence of evidence of beneficial effects of
spinal
manipulation in infants and in view of its potential risks, manual
therapy,
chiropractic and osteopathy should not be used in infants with the
[kinetic
imbalance due to subocciptal strain/KISS-syndrome]..."

^^^Brand PL, Engelbert RH, Helders PJ, Offringa M. Ned Tijdschr
Geneeskd.
2005 Mar 26;149(13):703-7. PubMed abstract

I am reassessing my own recommendation that mothers take their babies
to
doctors of chiropractic - or any other practitioners who manipulate
babies'
spines.

Some (most?) doctors of chiropractic are SO gentle - but until I know
what
Brand et. al. meant by "manual therapy" well....22% is a big
number...I
don't think babies should be made to suffer apnea during spinal
manipulation...

MDs and others who treat KISS (or vertebral subluxation) with spinal
manipulation must be made aware of the report of Brand et al.

Pregnant women must also be made aware of Brand et al.'s report.

Hence this post to the usenet newsgroup misc.kids.pregnancy.

To Dr. Brand I say again...

Since you are opposed to MDs and others TREATING the kinetic imbalance
due
to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal manipulation...

Surely you can muster some opposition to MD-obstetricians CAUSING
kinetic
imbalance due to suboccipital strain/KISS-syndrome with spinal
manipulation.

MD-obstetricians are the most prolific spinal manipulators of infant
spines - and they are GRUESOME spinal manipulators - senselessly
closing
birth canals up to 30% - sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal
nerves
out of tiny spinal cords.

MD-obstetricians may be causing strokes/cerebral palsy in some babies
with
their gruesome spinal mainpulation.

See the two Open Letters [above].

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


EMERGENCY.

PREGNANT WOMEN: By using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBs are
closing
birth canals up to 30%. Also, when babies get stuck, OBs KEEP women
semisitting and dorsal - they KEEP the birth canal closed the "extra"
up
to
30% as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuums.

THE SOLUTION: To allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to
30%,
simply roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or use other
"alternative" delivery positions.

JUST BEWARE - some OBs will let pregnant women "try" alternative
delivery
positions - but will roll
them back to semisitting/dorsal - close their birth canals the "extra"
up
to
30% for the actual delivery. Talk to your OB.


This Open Letter to Paul L.P. Brand, MD will be archived for global
access
in the Google usenet archive. Search http://groups.google.com for
"Chiropractic causes apnea in babies?"

"Joel M. Eichen" wrote in message
...
Todd,

This is news to everybody. Can you please
post at least once or twice per month more?

Joel

Well, at the very least, 30% more, ought to do it. :-)

--
Jacqueline
#1 Due late Jul/early Aug