Euphoria after adjusting (spinal and non-spinal)
Todd Gastaldo
MD-obstetricians are engaging in bizarre ROUTINE spinal manipulation at
delivery - even as they indirectly admit their routine spinal manipulation
is KILLING some fetuses. See discussion below; and see...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html
Chiropractic adjusting of MD-obstetricians (without touching any spines)
could bring much euphoria to many babies...
More on this below...
First, though, perceived euphoria following spinal adjustments...
I think Dr. ______ ("Oh please") is indicating his displeasure at the
following statement of music therapists...
I got their statement from a PubMed abstract wherein they wrote,
>>"...We can see that as spinal distortions diminish and awareness
increases,
>>there is a natural attraction toward the higher or more loving state of
>>consciousness..." [Miller EB, Redmond P. Altern Ther Health Med 1999
Mar;5(2):102-4. Music therapy and chiropractic: an integrative model of
tonal and rhythmic
spinal adjustment.]
I join Dr. ______ in his (apparent) displeasure at the music therapists'
claim...
I simply do not see how external observers can "see" "a natural attraction
toward the higher or more loving state of consciousness..."
Then again, I have only read the music therapist's PubMed abstract...
Then again again, I personally experienced an intense state of euphoria
when, circa 1976, I received an upper cervical Diversified adjustment from a
DC in Texas whose name I wish I could remember...
I remember feeling like my head was SO easy to move for the first time in my
life.
My personal sense of euphoria MIGHT have been what the music therapy people
(see above) are calling a "higher or more loving state of consciousness"
following lessening of spinal distortion...
I truly was amazed at what that DC did for me... (I must acknowledge that I
was not the most objective of observers, as I was then in my second year of
chiropractic college.)
Later, in chiropractic spinal adjusting practice, I had hugs (and tears)
from a woman (auto accident victim) who, immediately following my
Diversified upper cervical adjustment, said she could move her cervical
spine like never before - even better than before her auto accident, she
said. (Over the years, other DCs have reported similar patient reactions;
and not just with Diversified adjustments.)
I must note here that I have not experienced a truly euphoric feeling
following adjustment since that adjustment in Texas over 20 years ago;
though, again, I have generally always experienced increased range of
motion/ease of movement following Diversified spinal adjustments.
Increased range of motion following Diversified spinal adjusting is
temporary. But such adjustments - once or twice a month - may be indicated
in this culture which robs children of a fundament human range of motion...
See...
Pt 1: Chiro prevention/CBP not onboard...
http://x6.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=450898123&CONTEXT=920959972.5
40475495&hitnum=59
Pt 2: THE GREAT SQUAT ROBBERY
http://x6.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=450898128&CONTEXT=920959972.5
40475495&hitnum=54
It is noteworthy that I had severe insults to my cervical spine as a boy.
Three times (that I can remember), I fell on my chin - once from the running
board of a moving automobile. All three times I required stitches; and one
of those times I required a hospital stay...
Let's not have *too* many nasty remarks from the peanut gallery about
Gastaldo having suffered irreversible brain damage. As I write this, I
recall a fall from a bunk bed while sleeping. My brain was no doubt damaged
by that fall.
Some have engaged in ad hominem diversion - playfully (and not-so-playfully)
alleging that Gastaldo must suffer mental health problems because he insists
on ending the grisly spectacle of MD-obstetricians en masse engaging in
routine spinal manipulation/fetal skull squashing at delivery...
Whatever...
Perhaps my cervical spine held distortions caused by the falls noted above -
and perhaps that single Diversified upper cervical adjustment finally
released them...
I was, indeed, truly euphoric following that Diversified upper cervical
adjustment years ago...
Now onward to bizarre MD-obstetrician spinal manipulative/fetal skull
squashing behavior...
MD criminal activity (at delivery; see URL below) in effect creates hospital
"auto accidents" - also known as obstetrician-attended births...
For discussion of bizarre MD-obstetrician ROUTINE spinal manipulative, fetal
skull squashing/shoulder dystocia-causing criminal activity, see...
http://x2.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=451303885&CONTEXT=920757602.4
41778220&hitnum=7
The authors of Williams Obstetrics did publish (at my request) the grisly
fetal skull squashing biomechanics (of semisitting and dorsal delivery); but
they kept (in the same paragraph!) the 70s bald lie (dorsal lithotomy
widens) that first called my attention to their text...
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html
Key bit of history...
In 1973, Ohlsen exposed the fact that the authors of Williams Obstetrics
were claiming ERRONEOUSLY that the pelvic diameters don't change at
delivery. THAT'S when the authors of Williams Obstetrics began their 70s
LIE, fraudulently claiming - for nearly two decades - that their most common
delivery position, dorsal lithotomy, widens the outlet.
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html
In the early 90s, I asked the authors of Williams Obstetrics to eliminate
their lie and publish the correct "dorsal lithotomy is fetal skull
squashing" biomechanics.
As noted above, the authors of Williams Obstetrics KEPT their grisly fetal
skull squashing lie ("dorsal widens") - but did accede to my request and
publish the correct "dorsal lithotomy is fetal skull squashing"
biomechanics - in the same paragraph as their lie!
http://home1.gte.net/gastaldo/part2ftc.html
The authors of Williams Obstetrics thus now indirectly ADMIT that, on
AVERAGE, 1.5 to 2.0 cm of fetal skull distortion occurs in semisitting and
dorsal delivery - in the same (1993,1997) editions of their text in which
they claim that 0.5 cm of fetal skull distortion can KILL!!
Ironically, it was Johns Hopkins' J. Whitridge Williams, MD - original
author of Williams Obstetrics - who in effect established clinically that up
to ***4*** cm of fetal skull distortion can occur in dorsal lithotomy and
semisitting delivery. Later, Herbert Thoms, MD - also of Johns Hopkins -
repeated Dr. Williams' study and came to a similar conclusion...
Of course, it is the resilience of babies - and the movement of fetal skull
bones - that saves most babies.
But a significant number of babies do suffer significant unexplained
morbidity - dents in their skulls at birth, unexplained brain bleeds (4.6%);
unexplained neonatal encephalopathy (up to 10%); unexplained Erb's palsy,
unexplained cerebral palsy, unexplained epilepsy, unexplained low APGARS,
unexplained "minor" perceptual and motor difficulties at 4 years, etc.
Of course - some babies suffer unexplained DEATH - and - as noted above -
the authors of Williams Obstetrics now indirectly claim that their bizarre
spinal manipulations at delivery (dorsal and semisitting deliveries) are
causing some of these fetal deaths.
It is interesting to note that the German physician H. Biedermann, MD
reported to the medical literature that he used upper cervical spinal
adjusting to treat 135 babies referred to him by a pediatric orthopedist...
[Biedermann H. Kinematic imbalances due to suboccipital strain in newborns.
J Manual Medicine 1992;6:151-156. H. Biedermann, M.D., Surgical Department,
University of Witten-Herdecke, Schützenstrasse 9, W-5840 Schwerte, Federal
Republic of Germany.]
Biedermann [1992] wrote that traumatization of suboccipital structures
occurs during birth, giving rise to manipulable lesions and various
conditions which he has observed to subside soon after manipulation of those
lesions.
According to Biedermann [1992], conditions which have yielded to a single
upper cervical manipulation include neonatal torticollis, opisthotonus,
asymmetric motor patterns, sleeping disorders, asymmetric development and
range of motion of the hips, fever of unknown origin, and loss of appetite.
Biedermann [1992] also reports that manipulation and physiotherapy
complement each other, with about 50% of cases requiring physiotherapy
following spinal manipulation. ("[P]hysiotherapists,” writes Biedermann,
“report consistently that the[ir] treatment is simplified after
manipulation.")
Biedermann [1992] also states, "Prolonged labor and the use of extraction
aids are especially overrepresented" in cases of the syndrome he calls
kinematic imbalance due to suboccipital strain, or KISS. The birth canal,
he says, is "one of the most dangerous obstacles we ever have to traverse."
Obstacles (sacral tips) should NOT be jammed up to 4 cm into birth canals.
Women should be informed IMMEDIATELY that - at home or in hospital - they
can easily avoid obstetric tomfoolery that jams tailbones into birth canals
causing shoulder dystocia - and - more frequently - fetal skull distortion.
Whether or not gentle upper cervical adjusting of babies is beneficial
following birth - MDs should IMMEDIATELY be stopped from so GROSSLY
manipulating women's spines with semisitting and dorsal delivery...
Such GROSS MD-obstetrician manipulation of **mothers'** spines sets the
stage for GROSS MD-obstetrician manipulation of fetal spines...
In essence, MD-obstetricians are engaged in OBVIOUS criminal spinal
manipulation...
Stopping MD-obstetricians from so bizarrely manipulating spines may well
create a state of euphoria for thousands of babies per day - and PREVENT
vertebral subluxations - without touching a single spine...
Todd D. Gastaldo, D.C.