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Contacting pregnant women to prevent birth trauma (ACC-RAC abstract)
ACC-RAC peer review chair Claire D. Johnson, DC, MEd, electronic submission
form please; preliminary abstract below... PREGNANT WOMEN: For simple instructions on how to allow your birth canal to open an "extra" up to 30%, see the very end of this post. OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below) Claire D. Johnson, DC, MSEd Peer Review Chair ACC-RAC 12th annual Association of Chiropractic Colleges Educational Conference 10th annual Research Agenda Conference Las Vegas March 17-19, 2005. 562-947-8755, ext. 653 Claire, According to Dynamic Chiropractic, the electronic submission form is available by e-mail from the Peer Review Chair as of Feb. 14, 2004. http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/22/14/02.html Please send an electronic submission form. If my publication of the preliminary abstract below renders my future contributionn on the same subject not acceptable to ACC-RAC, so be it. Hopefully you will share the information with pregnant women in your circle of family and friends. Thanks for reading. Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo ACC-RAC PRELIMINARY ABSTRACT: CONTACTING PREGNANT WOMEN TO PREVENT BIRTH TRAUMA... INTRODUCTION Background. The chiropractic profession suggests that birth trauma can cause the putative chiropractic lesion, vertebral subluxation. Obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives are closing birth canals up to 30% (semisitting and dorsal delivery) - see PROOF below. With birth canals closed up to 30%, obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives are gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines. Obstetricians violently push on the tiniest spines (with oxytocin, Cytotec) and gruesomely pull (with hands, forceps, vacuums) - sometimes pulling so hard that spinal nerves are ripped out of tiny spinal cords. Some babies die, some babies get paralyzed - most "only" have their spines gruesomely wrenched. (ALL spinal manipulation is gruesome with the birth canal senselessly closed up to 30%.) Objective/Purpose. To cause obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives to STOP closing birth canals and thereby prevent much birth trauma thereby saving tiny lives and tiny limbs and preventing the putative chiropractic lesion, vertebral subluxation. METHOD Non-spinal chiropractic adjusting (education): Contact obstetricians, certified nurse-midwives and other health care professionals in person and in writing. Inform them that obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives are senselessly closing birth canals and need to stop. Contact pregnant women. Inform them that it is easy for them to allow their birth canals to open the "extra" up to 30% just by staying off their backs/buttocks as they push their babies out. RESULTS Contacting obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives has resulted in publication, censorship, evasion. Contacting law enforcement has yielded no response. Contacting women has resulted in some women reporting that they stayed off their sacra at delivery. DISCUSSION Censorship/evasion from obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives is to be expected because it is an obvious crime for obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives to knowingly close birth canals. Obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives cannot simply stop the crime because stopping it would be tantamount to admitting it. Law enforcement is likely silent because it is the "community norm" to close birth canals and because the medical profession is politically powerful. The authors of Williams Obstetrics did publish the biomechanics at my request - but they left in their text the erroneous (dorsal widens) biomechanics that first called this author's attention to their text. Chiropractic associations have so far remained silent. CONCLUSION Contacting pregnant women seems more effective than contacting obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives in causing obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives to stop closing birth canals. Contacting pregnant women may be the best way to prevent birth trauma and thereby save tiny lives and tiny limbs and prevent the putative chiropractic lesion, vertebral subluxation. PROOF that OBs and CNMwives are routinely closing birth canals up to 30%... The fact that semisitting and dorsal close the birth canal is simple biomechanics. See Gastaldo TD. Letter. Birth 1992;19(4):230. Here's my source for the 30% figure... "[T]he outlet increases with moulding by approximately 20-30 per cent." --Russell JGB. Moulding of the pelvic outlet. J Obstet Gynaec Brit Cwlth 1969;76:817-20. NOTE: In 1973, Ohlsen verified Russell's 20% figure on Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 intrapartum x-rays. Ohlsen pointed out that the authors of Williams Obstetrics were claiming that the pelvic diameters *don't change* during delivery (!) - so the authors of Williams Obstetrics decided (erroneously) that dorsal delivery widens! Interestingly, early last century, J. Whitridge Williams, MD, the original author of Williams Obstetrics demonstrated MASSIVE amounts of change in pelvic outlet diameter change at-term - and Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 intrapartum x-ray study accorded with the average amount of pelvic outlet diameter change Williams found clinically... See: http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html Jason Gardosi, MD, director of the British National Health Service/NHS West Midlands Perinatal Institute/WMPI states the grisly biomechanics of the semirecumbent delivery position (semisitting): "...the weight of the mother is in part taken on the sacrum which is therefore pushed upwards, thus decreasing the antero-posterior diameter of the pelvic outlet..." http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm The funny thing is, Jason Gardosi, MD also *recommends* semisitting (closing the birth canal) - or used to! "The second stage...You might want to remain in bed with your back propped up with pillows...As you push, try to let yourself 'open up' below..." http://www.preg.info/book/chapter11.htm NOTE: Jason Gardosi, MD and his fellow British OB pal Malcolm Griffiths once got me censored from an international OB/GYN listserv - but fortunately not before two of my posts were archived thereon: http://forums.obgyn.net/forums/ob-gy...9707/0128.html http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9707/0153.html Anyone interested in some entertaining obstetric reading, check out Jason's 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of squatting" - where nobody squatted... See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084 MORE PROOF According to the Merck Manual: "When shoulder dystocia occurs...the mother's thighs are hyperflexed to increase the diameter of the pelvic outlet..." http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanu...er253/253g.jsp WHY are OBs and CNMwives (nurse midwives) waiting until the head is out and shoulders get stuck before giving the baby maximum pelvic outlet diameter? WHY are OBs and CNMwives forcing babies' heads through birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%? WHY are OBs and CNMwives KEEPING birth canals closed when babies' shoulders get stuck? (Merely hyperflexing the thighs does NOT get the woman off her sacrum. This is BAD McRoberts maneuver. ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Gardosi et al.'s WMPI site (quoted above) recommends a version of GOOD McRoberts if the shoulders get stuck... http://www.wmpi.net/reviews/oe/oe_shoulder_dystocia.htm) LADIES: HELP PROTECT YOUR VAGINAS... OBs and CNMwives are slicing vaginas (euphemism "routine episiotomy") - surgically/FRAUDULENTLY inferring everything possible is being done to OPEN birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%! See Criminal medical CAM at Hawai'i's John A Burns School of Medicine http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...t/message/2256 Sorry to be repetitive but... WEIRD: In 1993, the authors of Williams Obstetrics published the correct biomechanics at my request but they left in their text (in the same paragraph!) the "dorsal widens" bald lie that first called my attention to their text. The "dorsal widens" bald lie was created when Ohlsen informed the authors of Williams Obstetrics in 1973 that they were still claiming that the pelvic diameters *don't change* at delivery! ALSO WEIRD: Before Ohlsen stimulated their "dorsal widens" bald lie, the authors of Williams Obstetrics were ignoring Borell and Fernstrom's 1957 RADIOGRAPHIC demonstration that the diameters DO change - and this MANY years after (way back in 1911) J. Whitridge Williams, MD - the first author of Williams Obstetrics - clinically demonstrated 4cm of AP outlet diameter change! For details: See my Open Letter to FTC at: http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS PREGNANT WOMEN: It is EASY for you to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30%. Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out - or deliver on hands-and-knees, kneeling, standing, squatting, etc. BUT BEWA "Midwives...encourage...semisitting." (closing the birth canal!) --Yale CNMwifery Prof. Helen Varney. Varney's Midwifery. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett. 4th ed. 2004:839] Some MDs and MBs will let you "try" "alternative" delivery positions but will move you back to dorsal or semisitting (close your birth canal!) as you push your baby out! If your baby's shoulders get stuck OBs and CNMwives will KEEP your birth canal closed! Yale CNMwifery Prof. Varney (just cited) writes: "In the event of...shoulder dystocia...the woman should be in a lithotomy position..." (p. 839) Lithotomy position keeps the birth canal closed! So does semisitting! Talk to your CNMwife or MD or MB about this TODAY. (For further details see "Criminal medical CAM," URL above.) CNMwives/MDs/MBs: If you must push or pull - and sometimes you must - first get the woman off her sacrum - off her back/butt. Thanks for reading everyone. Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo This Open Letter will be archived for global access within 24 hours in the Google groups usenet archive. 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