Babies, birth and spine care

BABIES, BIRTH AND SPINE CARE

See my Open Letter to BERNARD H. GUIOT, MD below.


PREGNANT WOMEN: Standard delivery positions (semisitting and dorsal) close
the birth canal up to 30%.

Fortunately, SQUATTING allows the birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%.

HAVE YOU LOST THE ABILITY TO EASILY SQUAT?

No problem! LOTS of delivery positions allow the birth canal to open the
"extra" up to 30%. (Side-lying, hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, etc.
all allow the birth canal to open the "extra" up to 30%.)

See ACOG's 2005 edition: How NOT to birth
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3606



BABIES, BIRTH AND SPINE CARE

"[Bernard H. Guiot, MD]...focuses on all aspects of spine care...from the
skull base to the sacrum."
http://www.spineuniverse.com/mdpage.php?doctorID=3256

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

Bernard H. Guiot, MD
Director of Spine Surgery
Department of Neurosurgery
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
(813) 259-0979
Via
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Bernard,

MD-obstetricians are not delivering good spine care.

MD-obstetricians are closing birth canals up to 30%.

MD-obstetricians are KEEPING birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when
babies get stuck - as they pull with hands, forceps and vacuum extractors.

MD-obstetricians sometimes pull so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny
spinal cords - with birth canals senselessly closed the "extra" up to 30%.

In discussing iatrogenic carotid artery injury, you (and Inamasu) mentioned
chiropractic manipulation but failed to mention OBSTETRIC manipulation in
your recent literature review of iatrogenic carotid artery injury.

[Inamasu J, Guiot BH. Neurosurg Rev. 2005 Aug 10; Epub ahead of print/PubMed
abstract]

I agree (as you say) that "Prevention is the best treatment" and that
"further accumulation of...knowledge of iatrogenic [carotid artery injury]
will result in further reduction of this complication]."

It seems likely that iatrogenic carotid artery injury following chiropractic
manipulation is far less frequent than that following obstetric manipulation
- since obstetricians wrench so many tiny spines and sometimes wrench them
so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords.

Regardless, MD-obstetricians should not be closing birth canals the "extra"
up to 30% - or keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% as they
pull on tiny spines.

Please help stop MD-obstetricians from closing birth canals the "extra" up
to 30%.

Prevention is indeed the best treatment.

Perhaps you could write an article about the bizarre baby spine "care"
offered by MD-obstetricians.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon


Copied to: Augustus A. White, III, MD, PhD
Director of Spine Surgery, Harvard
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ATTENTION AMERICAN SPINE SURGEONS

BE ADVISED: You are cutting on the spines of adults who, as children, are
being robbed of full use of their spines...

See Falling over backwards in childbirth class - The Great Squat Robbery
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3784

According to Guiot and Fessler [2000], the intervertebral disc undergoes
observable morphological changes as it degenerates including "dehydration,
fissuring, and tearing of the nucleus, annulus and endplates."

Guiot and Fessler [2000] write further: "On the molecular level,
degenerative changes include decreased diffusion, decreased cell viability,
decreased proteoglycan synthesis, and alteration in collagen distribution."

What if, after Fahrni [Orth Clin N Am 1975] chairdwellers are suffering
ASYMMETRIC wear and tear on their discs and tears in the POSTERIOR annulus -
because their culture isn't allowing them to load their discs evenly - as in
flat-footed squatting?

Since Guiot and Fessler write that the role of inflammatory mediators and
growth factors "are under active investigation...[and]...may soon contribute
significantly to our understanding of degenerative disc disease.
[Guiot BH, Fessler RG. Neurosurgery. 2000 Nov;47(5):1034-40]

IN THE MEANTIME... Maybe spine surgeons everywhere could call for an end to
The Great Squat Robbery REGARDLESS whether (paraphrasing Guiot and Fessler)
inflammatory mediators play a role in disc degeneration - regardless whether
growth factors can delay or reverse the degenerative cascade?

Maybe spine surgeons could do this when they publicly call upon
MD-obstetricians to stop closing birth canals the "extra" up to 30%?

Just a thought.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon


Well, OK, since people are still reading... : )

ANOTHER SIMPLE PREVENTION OPPORTUNITY

Obstetricians are temporarily asphyxiating babies - forcing them to breathe
through their lungs before they want - and in the process robbing babies of
up to 50% of their blood volume.

This is happening to EVERY CESAREAN BABY, according to retired obstetrician
George Malcolm Morley, MB ChB FACOG.

See again: ACOG's 2005 edition: How NOT to birth
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/3606

Keeping in mind that babies breathe through their umbilical cords, Dr.
Morley is recommending a sort of temporary baby strangling experiment to
help obstetricians understand that they shouldn't rob babies of massive
amounts of blood...

Here is Dr. Morley's temporary baby strangling experiment:

"[T]he umbilical cord [is] immediately closed between finger and thumb...The
[fetal heart rate/FHR] will decelerate quickly to about 60 bpm...the color
will change from purple-pink (normal at birth) to pallid blue
(vaso-constriction and asphyxia.)...Few midwives or obstetricians will be
able to observe, without interference, a deep, prolonged FHR deceleration on
a non-breathing newborn for a period of 60 seconds.* Common sense will soon
release the finger and thumb."
http://www.cordclamping.com/ac og-cp.htm

PREGNANT WOMEN: To make sure your baby gets the "extra" up to 50% of blood
volume, do not let the obstetrician or midwife clamp your baby's umbilical
cord until it has stopped pulsating and your baby is pink and breathing and
not in need of resuscitation. *Talk to your obstetrician or midwife today.

This Open Letter to Bernard Guiot, MD and Spine Surgery Fellowship Residency
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