Educating IS adjusting/The Disney version of Gastaldo's message…
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wrote > I am very impressed with what he wrote. It was very nice and clear, and I > enjoyed reading it..why not just write like that all the time? 
It has to do with the "flight of ideas" so common in schizophrenics. — CBI, MD
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I am very impressed with what he wrote. It was very nice and clear, and I enjoyed reading it..why not just write like that all the time? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> It’s those incomprehensible, ellipsis-laden, over-capitalized articles > addressing some doctor by his first name that are hard to get through. > For those without the fortitude, I’m pasting Todd’s final paragraph, in > which he finally cuts to the chase and gives the one-minute version of > Todd Gastaldo’s Message to Mothers: > Here’s MY Disney version – recently submitted to WAME medical journal > editors: > Para #1: Attention PREGNANT WOMEN: Here’s a simple, chiropractic method > for you to open your birth canal up to 30% "extra": DON’T let the MD put > you on your back or butt at delivery (dorsal or semisitting) as these > delivery positions CLOSE the birth canal up to 30%. Also: DON’T let the MD > grasp your baby’s head and pull – with hands or forceps – unless you are off > your back/butt. MDs *routinely* pull (gently) on fetal heads sticking out > vaginas/birth canals senselessly closed up to 30% thereby distorting spines. > This is after *fetal heads* are senselessly distorted (brains senselessly > pinched) because the birth canal is senselessly closed up to 30%. Most > babies survive and thrive after such abuse – but an estimated 4.6% of > "healthy" term neonates suffer unexplained brain bleeds and sometimes baby > shoulders get REALLY stuck. Sometimes (fortunately rarely) MDs pull so hard > that they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords! > (snip) > DON’T FORGET – it’s not in my Disney version – but MDs are also PUSHING on > fetal spines – hammering them with oxytocin – rupturing the occasional > uterus – with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%. > I’m still sort of on cloud nine because of that woman who humorously said > she CHANNELLED me during labor. : ) > That was the funniest post I’ve read here in a long time (the poster who > had an accidentally-unattended homebirth — while waiting for the > midwife — and as she was entering her OMG-gotta-push-NOW stage, the > clouds opened up and she remembered Todd’s endless repetitions about > "opening the birth canal 30%," so she got off her butt and pushed). > Question for Todd (please don’t quote anything): What are the best > positions for birthing? I realize anything with the pressure off the > tailbone is your mantra, but is, for example, side-lying better than > squatting better than supporter squatting better than kneeling better > than hands-and-knees? Any research indicate the most productive and > least tear-prone of the "open" positions? > If sitting/lying closes the birth canal 30%, does that mean that a > neutral standing position is at 0%, while some other position might > actually open the pelvis beyond "0% closed"? > Mary S.
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It’s those incomprehensible, ellipsis-laden, over-capitalized articles addressing some doctor by his first name that are hard to get through. For those without the fortitude, I’m pasting Todd’s final paragraph, in which he finally cuts to the chase and gives the one-minute version of Todd Gastaldo’s Message to Mothers: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Here’s MY Disney version – recently submitted to WAME medical journal > editors: > Para #1: Attention PREGNANT WOMEN: Here’s a simple, chiropractic method > for you to open your birth canal up to 30% "extra": DON’T let the MD put > you on your back or butt at delivery (dorsal or semisitting) as these > delivery positions CLOSE the birth canal up to 30%. Also: DON’T let the MD > grasp your baby’s head and pull – with hands or forceps – unless you are off > your back/butt. MDs *routinely* pull (gently) on fetal heads sticking out > vaginas/birth canals senselessly closed up to 30% thereby distorting spines. > This is after *fetal heads* are senselessly distorted (brains senselessly > pinched) because the birth canal is senselessly closed up to 30%. Most > babies survive and thrive after such abuse – but an estimated 4.6% of > "healthy" term neonates suffer unexplained brain bleeds and sometimes baby > shoulders get REALLY stuck. Sometimes (fortunately rarely) MDs pull so hard > that they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords!
(snip) > DON’T FORGET – it’s not in my Disney version – but MDs are also PUSHING on > fetal spines – hammering them with oxytocin – rupturing the occasional > uterus – with birth canals senselessly closed up to 30%. > I’m still sort of on cloud nine because of that woman who humorously said > she CHANNELLED me during labor. : )
That was the funniest post I’ve read here in a long time (the poster who had an accidentally-unattended homebirth — while waiting for the midwife — and as she was entering her OMG-gotta-push-NOW stage, the clouds opened up and she remembered Todd’s endless repetitions about "opening the birth canal 30%," so she got off her butt and pushed). Question for Todd (please don’t quote anything): What are the best positions for birthing? I realize anything with the pressure off the tailbone is your mantra, but is, for example, side-lying better than squatting better than supporter squatting better than kneeling better than hands-and-knees? Any research indicate the most productive and least tear-prone of the "open" positions? If sitting/lying closes the birth canal 30%, does that mean that a neutral standing position is at 0%, while some other position might actually open the pelvis beyond "0% closed"? Mary S. — Mary Sweathe San Francisco, CA
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THANKS! Some nice ladies on the USENET said some relatively nice things about my work. But Jean offered a significantly flawed Disney version of my work (from the perspective of babies at least). For a *somewhat* better Disney version of my work, see the two paragraphs I’ve just submitted to WAME medical journal editors…below… First this… PREGNANT WOMEN CHIROPRACTIC PATIENTS: Ask yourselves: Why is Len Schwartz, DC still hammering a fellow DC (Dr. Karl Holmquist) for selling a video which teaches people GENTLE diversified adjusting – all the while remaining silent about MDs closing birth canals up to 30% and GRUESOMELY manipulating most babies spines at birth? (See Dr. Schwartz’s October 2001 Newsletter.) OPEN LETTER (posted to the following usenet newsgroups: misc.kids.pregnancy, misc.health.alternative and sci.med) Len Schwartz, DC Chiropower Llc 95 James Way Suite 120 Southampton, PA 18966 1-215-364-4670 1-866-969-3508 (toll free) Fax: 215-364-4819 www.chiropowerinc.com Hi Len, Thanks for e-mailing your October newsletter. You used to say right up front on your web site: "[T]ransform your patients into chiropractic specialists…" Those golden words are now gone! Or rather, I can’t find them ANYWHERE on your web site! Instead I see these words right up front: "[B]uild a practice by simply educating and adjusting your patients…" Len, educating IS adjusting! Indeed, the Founder of chiropractic subtitled (and wrote at the top of nearly every page of) his only book: The Chiropractor’s Adjuster – and he DEFINED chiropractic, in part, as education – "the mental act of accumulating knowledge" (p. 19) – as he explicitly stated, "Chiropractic came as an educator." (p. 465,876) Why would you conceal this information from patients? Why DID you delete that fantastic sentiment: "Transform your patients into chiropractic specialists"? (If it IS there somewhere – put it back up front!) And Len, why ARE you still hammering a fellow DC (Dr. Karl Holmquist) for selling a video which teaches the public GENTLE diversified adjusting – even as you remain silent about MDs closing birth canals up to 30% and GRUESOMELY manipulating most babies’ spines at birth? Here are two of my recent posts regarding MDs gruesomely manipulating most babies spines at birth… 1. Dents in baby skulls/Navy research psychologists to help babies? http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=YfiD7.279%24HO5.23742%40ne… .prod.itd.earthlink.net http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1309 2. An idea for Tim Albert, director of the BMJ short course for medical journal editors… http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1311 3. Going along with the gag/MDs, DOs, DCs ignoring gruesome spinal manipulation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1310 (This last post – "Going along with the gag" – has some interesting information about Dr. DD Palmer openly advocating that DCs should diagnose (distinguish between diseases) and claiming spinal adjusting is only "specific" when it is used to treat specific diseases… I saw some amazing cures while still in spinal adjusting practice – but association is not causation – i.e., to my knowledge there is NO scientific evidence that spinal adjusting cures specific diseases (or relieves nerve interference thereby letting the body cure itself). Even so, when people get sick, I would recommend that people see a chiropractor IN ADDITION to visiting their MD. I’m also in favor of DAILY chiropractic care – most of it delivered by "chiropractic specialists" – patients. Len, "Going along with the gag" also mentions the fact that today’s chiropractic colleges have DD’s powerful Innate diagnostic tool exactly backwards! The chiropractic profession is STILL censoring Dr. DD Palmer, the Founder of chiropractic – with the largest chiropractic trade union recently attempting – unsuccessfully – to censor DD’s BROADSCOPE fundamental chiropractic hypothesis from Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary! If you aren’t publishing this remarkable straight chiropractic info, you are censoring it Len!) Len, restricting scholarly exchange/censoring amounts to psychological violence: "[Withholding] information by restricting scholarly exchange…[is a form of]…psychological violence." –Ralph Crawshaw, MD. Academic sanction: targeting South African science. JAMA 1989;262(11):1499-1503 Len, YOU are committing psychological violence – against me – restricting scholarly exchange on the CRUCIAL chiropractic issues I write about. Please STOP your psychological violence against me – forward this e-mail to your mailing list – post it at your web site – and thereby help me stop massive amounts of chiro-relevant MD physical violence against most babies at birth… Or reword my info – put my message in your own words – and forward/post THAT. (If you forward this post, many DCs might finally learn about DD-straight chiropractic – most of which can be practiced without a chiropractic degree or license – and BTW – people can adjust their own family members without chiropractic degree or license – it’s perfectly legal in California and probably in many other states. WHY hammer Dr. Holmquist and ignore MDs hammering most babies’ spines sometimes actually ripping spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords?) MDs really are routinely closing birth canals and GRUESOMELY manipulating most babies’ spines at birth. Sorry to repeat myself, but sometimes they pull so hard they rip tiny spinal nerves out of spinal cords! PLEASE adjust all subscribers to your newsletter with this knowledge. Please adjust your web page. Let’s save tiny lives and tiny limbs and PREVENT more vertebral subluxations than DCs will ever be able to adjust by hand. Do it for the babies. Thanks, Sincerely, Todd Dr. Gastaldo PS On the usenet, Alison Finklestein again offered her unsubstantiated criticism that I "make absolutely no sense at all." http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=B8024CAC.3AC9D%25chanagitt… mpatico.ca I was pleased to see various women say relatively positive things about my work… >Well…he’s someone who believes strongly in what he’s doing; you
gotta give him that! Most of his info is good, but it’s so darn unreadable! I quit reading his posts a long time ago. I didn’t bother to kill-file him because he doesn’t post all that often, and it’s easy enough to ignore his posts…I don’t mind him, other than wishing he’d change how he does his posts so that they’d be more useable–his info really is valuable. Often he comes across as a nutcase who rants to the point of frothing at the mouth.<< http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=bbef37b2.0110290839.1597df… ting.google.com ####### Cathy, see my Disney version below. Regarding my "frothing at the mouth"… People suffering epilepsy froth at the mouth; and the cause of all cases of epilepsy is not yet known; so a little frothing at the mouth from Gastaldo about a possible cause of frothing at the mouth ain’t so bad… : ) >Todd Gastaldo’s post are full of invaluble information regarding the
birthing process, and getting the most out of your birth. That is…*IF* you are interested in birthing your way, not the way the medical profession tells you to. His posts are tough to follow sometimes, but if you do find his information of use, he has been known to email you privatly, with something a little more ‘readable’…I do not suggest killfiling him until you’ve at least read (or attempted to read) at least a few of his points, and find out of his birthing values are simlar to yours. I myself have learned a ton from his posts.<< http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=cJhD7.130701%24ob.2912460%… .rdc1.bc.home.com ###### Nicole, I showed your post to my wife Julia. We love you. Your philosophy of birth ("*IF* you are interested in birthing your way, not the way the medical profession tells you") sounds like Julia’s philosophy – which also happens to be my philosophy. : ) Jean offered a rather flawed "Disney" version of my posts: >It does make sense eventually, there’s just too much to wade through to
get to the sensible stuff. Todd’s posts essentially all say the same thing, the mainstream medical profession are complicating childbirth by continuing the practice of encouraging labour lying down or semi-sitting. This has the effect of working against gravity as well as forcing the birth-canal into an oval shape instead of a circle which reduces its capacity. This reduced capacity then leads to an increase in episiotomy, epidurals and c-sections…That’s the Disney version of Todd’s posts – now you can happily killfile him and not feel that you’re missing out on anything .<< http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=35mD7.3979%248s4.17723%40n… igo.ie ####### Jean, you forgot to mention that the reduced capacity leads to problems for the baby… Here’s MY Disney version – recently submitted to WAME medical journal editors: Para #1: Attention PREGNANT WOMEN: Here’s a simple, chiropractic method for you to open your birth canal up to 30% "extra": DON’T let the MD put you on your back or butt at delivery (dorsal or semisitting) as these delivery positions CLOSE the birth canal up to 30%. Also: DON’T let the MD grasp your baby’s head and pull – with hands or forceps – unless you are off your back/butt. MDs *routinely* pull (gently) on fetal heads sticking out vaginas/birth canals senselessly closed up to 30% thereby distorting spines. This is after *fetal heads* are senselessly distorted (brains senselessly pinched) because the birth canal is senselessly closed up to 30%. Most babies survive and thrive after such abuse – but an estimated 4.6% of "healthy" term neonates suffer unexplained brain bleeds and sometimes baby shoulders get REALLY stuck. … read more »
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