WSCC Pres. Dr. Joe Brimhall, can you schedule that meeting now?

ACA SPORTS CHIROPRACTORS HAVE A **PREVENTION** MANDATE...

ACA SPORTS CHIROS: DON'T FORGET THE **TINIEST** ATHLETES...

Don't forget PREVENTION, as in,

"[T]he ACA Sports Council's main purpose is to provide service in the
PREVENTION...of musculoskeletal injuries."
http://www.acasc.org/ (emphasis added)

ACA = The American Chiropractic Association.

THE GREAT BIRTH ROBBERY (birth-canal-closing semisitting/dorsal lithtomy
delivery) CAUSES MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURIES.

Birth is life's first athletic event - OBGYNs are throwing up hurdles...

By routinely using semisitting and dorsal delivery, OBGYNs are routinely
closing birth canals up to 30% (most births).

For the simple biomechanics and clinical and radiographic cites from the
medical literature - see Gastaldo TD. Letter. BIRTH. 1992;19(4):230-1.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/bir/19/4, FREE ACCESS.

In 1 in 10 births, The Great Birth Robbery involves
birth-canal-closing/SPINAL MANIPULATION - KEEPING the birth canal closed up
to 30% when babies get stuck - pulling with forceps/vacuums which can cause
baby PARALYSIS and sometimes baby DEATH. It's obvious - sometimes fatal -
mass child abuse by OBGYNs.

Some babies are DYING and OBGYNs are LYING (see below): EMERGENCY: ANY
person may report the obvious mass child abuse by OBGYNs. (I am in favor of
pardons in advance for OBGYNs; see below.)

OREGONIANS: OBGYN Allan HEDGES, MD and ACA Sports Council Pres. Dr. FORCUM,
2nd Vice Pres. Dr. BERMUDEZ and Sec. Dr. ESPINOZA - see the OREGON child
abuse reporting quote below.

ACA SPORTS CHIROS: Don't miss this suspected child abuse reporting
opportunity to PREVENT more musculoskeletal injuries than you will ever be
able to charge adjust by hand.

Speaking of missing this suspected child abuse reporting opportunity...

ACA Sports Council's STEPHEN PERLE, DC of Connecticut is both ACA's Ethics
Columnist (ACANews 2008 - Present) and a member of ACA's Subcommittee for
the Prevention of Fraud and Abuse (2007 - Present)...
http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/~perle/Documents/cv.pdf

Yet Dr. Perle has been unethically/ILLEGALLY*** ignoring baby DEATHS caused
by birth-canal-closing/SPINAL MANIPULATION child abuse by OBGYNs.
***Relevant Connecticut law is quoted below.

(While it is true that law enforcement is looking the other way - see the
arrogant boast of Steve Harris, MD quoted below - that is no reason for
doctors of chiropractic to fail to report sometimes-fatal
birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation mass child abuse.c)

PREGNANT WOMEN: You yourself can help avoid the birth-canal-closing -
easily. See WHAT DELIVERY POSITIONS WOMEN SHOULD USE, below.

Note: As noted above, I am in favor of pardons in advance for OBGYNs. As
medical students, OBGYNs are TRAINED to commit obvious felonies. See ACOG's
Shoulder Dystocia training video, discussed below.

A RELATED^^^ GREAT SQUAT ROBBERY CAUSES A CULTURE-WIDE "WHITE ELEPHANT"
**EPIDEMIC** OF MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY...

^^^British OBGYN Jason Gardosi blamed The Great Squat Robbery for The Great
Birth Robbery in his 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of
squatting" - where nobody squatted. (Gardosi called semi-recumbency
"squatting"; when in fact women were indeed semi-recumbent, hanging by their
knees in Gardosi's "Birth Cushion.")

This related Great Squat Robbery - forced chair-dwelling - is considered
"normal" - that is - it is considered "normal" for Westerners to be forced
to lose their innate ability to comfortably squat for prolonged periods.

Why are not doctors of chiropractic speaking out about this EASILY PREVENTED
robbery?

See Is CBP's 'ideal spine' really valid? The profanity of Chiropractic
Biophysics scion Deed E. Harrison, DC...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2327 (substantial
excerpt below)

NOTE FOR WOMEN: You do NOT need to squat to offer your babies the "extra"
up to 30%. Again, see WHAT DELIVERY POSITIONS WOMEN SHOULD USE, below.

The ACA Sports Council should take the lead in speaking out about BOTH
culture-wide robberies.

Some babies are DYING and OBGYNs are LYING (see below).

Speaking out about The Great Birth Robbery is an EMERGENCY.

OPEN LETTER archived for global access; see below.

Theodore "Ted" Forcum, DC, DACBSP
President
ACA Sports Council
http://www.acasc.org/
11385 SW Schools Ferry Rd.
Beaverton, OR 97008
(503) 524-9040
Via forcum@...

Ted,

You are a recognized expert in treating ELITE athletes...
http://www.bimsportsinjuries.com/staff.htm

Please join me in focusing on ORDINARY athletes - especially YOUNG ordinary
athletes - kids.

Western culture ROBS its kids of a fundamental human range of motion - robs
them of their innate comfortable, prolonged flat-footed squatting ability.

THE PROBLEM: While by adulthood many of us can still squat flat-footed -
most of us can no longer squat flat-footed COMFORTABLY FOR PROLONGED
PERIODS. Most of us roll over backwards if we try to squat flat-footed. We
are being robbed of a fundamental human rest posture.

LOSS OF SQUATTING MAY HAVE SIGNIFICANT ORTHOPEDIC RAMIFICATIONS...

THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS IN SQUATTING CULTURES.

WHY are doctors of chiropractic silent about The Great Squat Robbery?

There may also be PSYCHIATRIC ramifications to this culture-wide loss of a
fundamental human rest posture.

For details...

See again: Is CBP's 'ideal spine' really valid? The profanity of
Chiropractic Biophysics scion Deed E. Harrison, DC...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2327 (substantial
excerpt below)

As indicated above, the Great Squat Robbery causes so much "white elephant"
musculoskeletal injury that it's NOT RECOGNIZED as a a musculoskeletal
injury....

The Great Squat Robbery must be RECOGNIZED as causing musculoskeletal injury
before it can be effectively PREVENTED.

Again, ACA Sports Council's mandate includes PREVENTING musculoskeletal
injuries...

Which brings me back to PREVENTION FOR THE **TINIEST** ATHLETES...

(Sorry to be so repetitive - but the birth-canal-closing OBGYN crime is
repeated thousands of times per day...)

MASS OBGYN CHILD ABUSE: By routinely using semisitting and dorsal
delivery, OBGYNs are routinely closing birth canals up to 30% (most births).
For the simple biomechanics and clinical and radiographic cites from the
medical literature - see Gastaldo TD. Letter. BIRTH. 1992;19(4):230-1.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/bir/19/4, FREE ACCESS.

MASS BIRTH-CANAL-CLOSING/**SPINAL MANIPULATION** CHILD ABUSE: When
babies get stuck, OBGYNs are KEEPING birth canals closed - keeping women
semisitting/dorsal - as they pull with forceps/vacuums (1 in 10 births) -
sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords -
sometimes KILLING babies - with birth canals senselessly kept closed the
"extra" up to 30%.

SOME BABIES ARE **DYING** - AND OBGYNS HAVE BEEN **LYING** (see below)...

DO YOU SUSPECT CHILD ABUSE TED?

Law enforcement is looking the other way and MDs know it (see the arrogant
boast of Steve Harris, MD, quoted below)...

But mass child abuse should still be reported.

I see you are in Oregon.

In Oregon (and probably in most states), ALL persons (not just mandatory
reporters) are encouraged to report when child abuse is so much as SUSPECTED

According to the State of Oregon:

"ALL OREGON CITIZENS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SUSPECTED [CHILD ABUSE] TO DHS
OR LAW ENFORCEMENT. Over 25 percent of the substantiated cases of child
abuse are reported by concerned citizens who are not required to report.
Failure to report is a violation and carries a maximum penalty of $1,000.00.
Mandatory reporters have also been successfully sued for damages in civil
court for failing to report." [emphasis added]
http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/children/abuse/cps/report.shtml

I SAY AGAIN TED: MD-obstetricians indirectly ADMIT ON VIDEO that
they are routinely closing birth canals up to 30%. (The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists'/ACOG's Shoulder Dystocia video purports to
demonstrate how to
allow the birth canal to open maximally when shoulders get stuck - which is
the indirect admission that MD-obstetricians are routinely closing birth
canals up to 30%.)

The ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video purports to demonstrate how to allow the
birth canal to open maximally - but actually demonstrates a maneuver
(McRoberts with the mother still on her sacrum) which keeps the birth canal
closed. This is OB Cover-up Lie #4...

For all Four OB Cover-up Lies (they are whoppers)...

See Dents in babies' skulls"
http://groups.google.com/group/
misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/08abfc7ff242150e

CRIMINAL MUA BY OBGYNs.

MUA = Manipulation Under Anesthesia.

Readers: One chiropractic technique - Sacro Occiptal Technique
(SOT) - sometimes involves placing blocks under the patient to allow the
patient's own weight to gently/slowly adjust/manipulate the spine/pelvis.

OBGYNs are placing anesthetized women semisittting - on their sacra -
thereby, in effect, BADLY adjusting/manipulating the spine/pelvis such that
the birth canal is closed up to 30%.

FORCEPS BIRTH INJURIES: One SOT practitioner writes:

"Injury occurs at a very early age in the form of birth injuries (forceps
delivery)..."
--Thomas R. Maurno, DC
Sacral [sic] Occipital Technique Overview
http://www.sunsetchiropractic.com/index.php?catID=1&pageID=11443

I SAY AGAIN: When
babies get stuck, OBGYNs are KEEPING birth canals closed - keeping women
semisitting/dorsal - as they pull with forceps/vacuums (1 in 10 births) -
sometimes pulling so hard they rip spinal nerves out of tiny spinal cords -
sometimes KILLING babies - with birth canals senselessly kept closed the
"extra" up to 30%.

ATTENTION: SOT practitioners via SORSI/Sacro Occipital Research Society
International (UNGER et al.: sotousa@...; drkwaichang@...;
fitdoc2@...;sunsetchiro33@...; nedheesedc@...;
chiron@...; doccima@...; drpat@...;
oldie@...; baysidechiro@...; j.unger@...;
mjcindrich@...; cbinyon@...; rbinyon@...)....

ADJUST - PREVENT/REPORT.

I RECENTLY WROTE TO NCQA - the National Committee for Quality Assurance -
for help ending the massive OBGYN crimes.

>>>>BEGIN excerpt of Mass OBGYN child abuse: Attn: CDC 'Champion of
>>>>Prevention' NCQA Pres. Margaret E. O'Kane...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2455

"In 2000, [NCQA Pres. Margaret E. O'Kane] received the Centers for Disease
Control's Champion of Prevention award, the agency's highest honor. The CDC
names a Champion of Prevention infrequently, and only when an individual has
made a truly notable contribution to advancing preventive health care..."
http://www.ncqa.org/tabid/344/Default.aspx

NCQA "Champion of Prevention" O'Kane says: "Tell us how we can serve you
better. Comments are always welcome at customersupport@...."
http://www.ncqa.org/tabid/675/Default.aspx

Dear "Champion of Prevention" O'Kane: Please help me prevent mass OBGYN
child abuse...

PREGNANT WOMEN: It is easy to allow your birth canal to open an"extra" up
to 30%.

See WHAT DELIVERY POSITIONS WOMEN SHOULD USE, below.

OBGYN experts indirectly ADMIT ON VIDEO that they KNOW they are
routinely closing birth canals up to 30%. The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists/ACOG's Shoulder Dystocia training video
purports to demonstrate how to allow the birth canal to open maximally in
the small number of cases when babies' shoulders get stuck - which is the
indirect admission that OBGYNs know they are routinely closing birth canals
up to 30%.

OBGYN experts have been LYING to cover-up.

OB Lie #4 is perhaps the most vicious: The version of McRoberts maneuver
purported (on the just mentioned ACOG video) to allow the birth canal to
open maximally when babies' shoulders get stuck - actually keeps it closed
the "extra" up to 30%.

For all Four OB Lies (they are whoppers)...

See [New Jersey's] 'Benevolent' FBI/DHHS OIG Agent Bruno Varano (ret.):
[BRUNO:] You're ignoring mass child abuse by OBGYNs.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2440

ATTENTION FEDS...

Retired NJ federal law enforcement officer Bruno Varano, just mentioned,
initially indicated I should telephone him about how to CORRECTLY get
QUI-TAM-reimbursed for my work - but when I called him - he hung up on
me...

Children are DYING and obstetricians are LYING - and a federal law
enforcement officer hung up on me (and like Officer Weiners) told me in
effect "no more email about the mass child abuse." Something is very
screwy.

ANOTHER MASSIVE OBGYN CHILD ABUSE CRIME...

OBGYNs are temporarily asphyxiating babies/permanently amputating up to 50%
of their blood volume.
The medical euphemism is "immediate cord clamping."

Retired OBGYN George Malcolm Morley thinks this second obvious OBGYN crime
is causing an EPIDEMIC OF AUTISM; yet he refuses to report the mass baby
blood robbery as child abuse.

Dr. Morley indicates the crime is being committed in most c-sections and
most "cord blood banking" births.

See Dr. Morley's website - www.cordclamp.com - and see again: [New Jersey's]
'Benevolent' FBI/DHHS OIG Agent Bruno Varano (ret.): [BRUNO:] You're
ignoring mass child abuse by OBGYNs.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2440

THINK ABOUT IT: OBGYNs are amputating nature's transfusion/resuscitation
device (mom and the placenta) only to rush the baby across the room so the
pediatrician can resuscitate him or her!

To PREVENT the obvious temporary baby asphyxiation/permanent baby blood
robbery crime, all women have to do is make sure their babies are pink and
breathing and not in need of resuscitation before the cord is clamped...

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
todd@...

PS WHAT DELIVERY POSITIONS WOMEN SHOULD USE...

>(NOTE: Women
> do NOT need to squat to allow their birth canals to open maximally.
See
> WHAT
> DELIVERY POSITIONS WOMEN SHOULD USE, below.)
>
> Incidentally, the Great Squat Robbery was related to The Great Birth
> Robbery
> in British obstetrician Jason Gardosi's 1989 Lancet "randomised
controlled
> trial of squatting" - where nobody squatted because - said Gardosi -
most
> women can't squat well enough to do so during delivery - which is
false:
> See Brazilian obstetrician Moyses Paciornik's report of thousands of
> squatting
> births in chair-dwelling women - which at my request was published in
> Birth
> with my letter describing the birth-canal-closing biomechanics of
> semisitting delivery...FREE ACCESS above.
>
> OBSTETRICS: "UNCONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION"
>
> In 1989, British obstetrician Richard J. Lilford noted that
> obstetrics
> "amounts to uncontrolled experimentation."
>
> See Lilford RJ. State of the obstetric art. The Lancet
> (Nov18)1989:1205-1207. Reviewing Chalmers I,
> Enkin M and Keirse MJNC (eds.). Effective Care in Pregnancy and
Childbirth
> Oxford: Oxford University Press 1989 Pp 1516 (2 vols) ISBN
0-192615580.
>
> That same year, 1989, Lilford forgot to inform women that
> semi-dorsal delivery closes the birth canal up to 30%. He conducted an
> "Experiment of squatting
> birth" in which he asked women "to recline into a semi-dorsal position
> at the moment of crowning" - after informing them of the "putative
> benefits of squatting." [Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 1989a;
> 30:217-20.]
>
> Lilford must not have informed women that the semi-dorsal position
CLOSES
> the birth canal up to 30%...
>
> WHAT DELIVERY POSITIONS WOMEN SHOULD USE...
>
> NOTE: Women do NOT need to squat to offer their babies the "extra" up
to
> 30%.
>
> It is easy for women to offer their babies the "extra" up to 30% of
room
> in
> the birth canal: The rule is easy: Semisitting and dorsal CLOSE - most
all
> other delivery positions OPEN.
>
> Side-lying is perhaps the easiest way to allow the birth canal to open
the
> "extra" up to 30%; but many women prefer to stand, squat or kneel as
they
> push their babies out. (Kneeling facing the raised head of the bed is
> popular.)
>
> WARNING: Women should talk to their OBGYNs and make sure that if their
> baby gets stuck (1 in 10 births) they will not be moved to semisitting
or
> dorsal - because - I say again - semisitting and dorsal CLOSE the
birth
> canal the "extra" up to 30%. OBGYNs have no business wrenching babies'
> spines with forceps/vacuums with the birth canal closed the "extra" up
to
> 30%.
>
> In 2001, Gupta (and Nikodem; with whom I had corresponded years
before)
> STILL failed to mention that the most common delivery positions
> (semisitting
> and dorsal) close the birth canal up to 30%!
>
> See Gupta JK , Nikodem VC. Woman's position during second stage of
labour
> (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library, 2, 2001. Oxford: Update
> Software.
> http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/ab002006.htm
>
> Dr. Nikodem might have been thinking about the birth-canal-closing
Gupta
> and
> Lilford study
> mentioned above when she wrote:
>
> "Some women will start bearing down instinctively while in the lateral
> position but are then asked to turn into the dorsal position for the
> delivery." [Nikodem C. Lateral tilt vs. dorsal position for second
stage
> The
> Cochrane Pregnancy & Childbirth Database (1995, Issue 2, Pre-Cochrane
> Reviews)]
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&
> safe=off&ic=1&th=7de4b56ad54cf6...
> ekm=378c8656.16246470%40news.wlg.ihug.co.nz#p
>
> Like Lilford - Dr. Nikodem should have said that the dorsal position
(and
> semisitting)
> close the birth canal up to 30%.
>
> Again quoting Lilford: Obstetrics "amounts to uncontrolled
> experimentation."
>
> Obstetrics amounts to uncontrolled birth-canal-closing/SPINAL
MANIPULATION
> experimentation.
>

I am in favor of PARDONS IN ADVANCE for obstetricians. As medical students,
obstetricians are being TRAINED to commit obvious felonies. See, for
example, the ACOG Shoulder Dystocia training video discussed above.

NOTE TO HELEN DARLING, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH...

HELEN: THE ONLY VALUE TO PAYING FOR CRIME IS PERPETUATION OF CRIME

"According to Helen Darling, President of the National Business Group on
Health...more
and more purchasers are practicing what is known in the field as 'value
purchasing,'
making health care selections based on a combination of cost and quality
factors. But
Darling acknowledges that doing this is not as easy as it should be.
'Purchasers strongly believe in value purchasing,' says Darling. 'What keeps
them
from doing more of it is the relative absence of good data that allows them
to make those
decisions.'" (p. 8)
--The Value of Care & Caring About Value
NCQA^^^ 2003 Annual Report
http://www.ncqa.org/Portals/0/Publications/Resource%20Library/Annual%20Report/03\
annual.pdf

"[Click on] healthservices@... questions regarding
[National Business Group on Health] programs in the areas of prevention and
health services including health services research, public health
partnerships, maternal and child health, health disparities, consumer
education, mental health and substance abuse, maternal and child health,
immunizations, pharmaceutical benefits, and health and productivity."
http://www.businessgrouphealth.org/contact.cfm

HELEN: I'VE NOTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR YEARS - TO NO AVAIL...

See the arrogant boast of Steve Harris, MD, quoted below.

For my most recent contact with law enforcement...

See Mass OBGYN child abuse: NAPO's 'Benevolent' NJ Policeman Tony Wiener
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2448

> THE PROBLEM...
>
> Law enforcement is looking the other way - and MDs know it.
>
> Steve Harris, MD arrogantly boasts:
>
> "Without enforcement, there is no law. Without law, there is no crime.
> These are elementary principles. Get an adult to explain them to you."
> http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/
> 28866f3384801ae9
>
> ANOTHER MASSIVE MD CRIME
>
> Dr. Harris's arrogant boast, just quoted, came in reply to my having
> pointed out another massive MD crime: fraudulent vaccination promotion...
>
> MDs are promoting PLANNED endangerment of VACCINATED children.
>
> When parents ask about vaccine exemptions for their children, they are
> told
> the bald lie that only their vaccine-exempt children need to be sent
> home/protected during disease outbreaks.
>
> Since many vaccinated children are not immunized by their vaccinations,
> ALL
> children need to be sent home/protected during disease outbreaks.
>
> All 50 state vaccination laws need to be changed immediately.
>
> See TIME magazine on chiropractors vs. vaccination
> http://groups.google.com/group/ misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/5d9a066386e4ef2f
>
> BTW, I am in FAVOR of vaccination - I am just not in favor of MDs
> **fraudulently promoting vaccination** as they fail to promote
> breastfeeding
> as free daily immunizations that reportedly make MD-needle-vaccinations
> work
> better...

STILL **MORE** MD CRIME...

MASS IMMUNOLOGIC CHILD ABUSE
>
> FRAUDULENT BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION BY MDs AND CDC...
>
> MDs and CDC are failing to explicitly state that breastfeedings are
> IMMUNIZATIONS
>
> MDs and CDC should immediately start informing the public that
> breastfeeding
> women scan for pathogens and manufacture IMMUNIZATIONS which they inject
> with their breasts - daily.
>
> CDC's vaunted National Immunization [sic] Program doesn't even call
> breastfeedings immunizations or mention that breastfeeding women immunize
> far more babies than MDs and reportedly make MD-needle-vaccinations work
> better.
>
> What woman informed of these simple facts is going to fail to at least
> attempt to breastfeed/immunize her baby daily?
>
> MDs are mysteriously ignoring a SIMPLE way to make the breastfeeding
> (immunization) and vaccination rates skyrocket...
>
> It's mass IMMUNOLOGIC child abuse.


HELEN: How hard can it be for "purchasers" to figure out that medical crime
only offers COST - no quality?

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE...

"In 1999, [NCQA Pres. Margaret E. O'Kane] was elected as a member of the
Institute of Medicine, a highly-regarded organization of health care
providers, researchers and others that is frequently called on to help shape
national health care policy."
http://www.ncqa.org/tabid/344/Default.aspx

MARGARET: Please bring the massive OBGYN child abuse crime to the attention
of the Institute of Medicine.

Thanks for reading everyone.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
todd@...

>>>>END Mass OBGYN child abuse: Attn: CDC 'Champion of Prevention' NCQA
>>>>Pres. Margaret E. O'Kane...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2455

BACK TO THE GREAT SQUAT ROBBERY...

>>>>>BEGIN excerpt of Is CBP's 'ideal spine' really valid? The profanity of
>>>>>Chiropractic Biophysics scion Deed E. Harrison, DC...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2327

Western children being made to SIT for prolonged periods
causing chronic imminent gluteal tissue destruction...

In 1986, Arthur Guyton, MD indirectly indicated that children are trying to
tell us about
chronic imminent gluteal tissue destruction:

"Even such simple activities as sitting for a long time...can cause
tissue destruction...Cessation of blood flow to the
skin...usually...cause[s] pain...[within]...20 to 30
minutes" (p. 594)...when the skin becomes painful as a result of the
ischemia, the person shifts weight unconsciously" (p. 592). [Guyton AC.
Textbook of
Medical Physiology. 7th ed. Phil: W.B. Saunders 1986]

In 1987, Newsweek reported that children can only sit still for 15 minutes
at a time in their chairs:

"Educators say that many five-year olds really can't handle a highly
academic program. They're still learning how to sit still for more than
15 minutes at a time." [Kantrowitz B, Wingert P. The big grind in
kindergarten. Newsweek (Aug10)1987. From Gastaldo's peer review of the
AHCPR-sponsored Low Back Guideline draft.]

In school (and at work) sitting for long periods amounts to chronic
imminent gluteal tissue destruction; and in childbirth, SEMIsitting
amounts to senseless birth-canal-closing with BRAIN tissue destruction
and sometimes death...

Sitting also causes asymmetric DISC destruction - with various professionals
RECOMMENDING asymmetric loading of discs...

"MAINTAIN THE HOLLOW (LUMBAR LORDOSIS)"?

Physiotherapist Sarah Keys once wrote:

"[S]itting...leaches water from the shock-absorbing intervertebral
discs...[M]aintain[ing] a better lumbar hollow (lumbar
lordosis)...helps
prevent the whole spine slumping in a crumpled 'C' shape...[Remember in
earlier evolutionary forms we never sat, we squatted!]"--Sarah Key,
physiotherapist
http://www.sarahkey.com/thought.cfm?ID=41 <--DELETED

Alternative URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050627213826/http://www.sarahkey.com/thought.cfm?ID
=41

WHAT?! PRESENT "evolutionary forms" - most humans on the planet - squat
into adulthood and old age...

WHY MAINTAIN THE HOLLOW/LORDOSIS WHILE SITTING?

COULD CHAIR-DWELLING BE CONTRIBUTING TO VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURES?

As noted above, Shatrugna et al. recently wrote:

"[W]eight-bearing effects of the upper body due to a squatting position were
associated with better lumbar spine BMD..."
Br J Nutr. 2008 Jun;99(6):1310-5. Epub 2007 Dec 21. PubMed abstract
Relationship between women's occupational work and bone health: a study from
India.
Shatrugna V, Kulkarni B, Kumar PA, Balakrishna N, Rani KU, Reddy GC, Rao GV.
National Institute of Nutrition (Indian Council of Medical Research), Jamai
Osmania P. O., Hyderabad 500 007, India. veena52@...

I'll copy Shatrugna et al. via veena52@...

Most humans on the planet squat and make the hollow/lordosis DISAPPEAR...

...which "gives the spine a high compressive strength" - according to Adams
and Hutton [1985] - fuller excerpt:

"...improves the transport of metabolites in the intervertebral discs,
reduces the stresses on the apophyseal joints and on the posterior half of
the anulusfibrosus, and GIVES THE SPINE A HIGH COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH."
[Adams MA and Hutton WC. The effect of posture on the lumbar spine. J Bone
Joint Surg 1985;67B(4):625-9. Emphasis added. Cited in W hite AA, Panjabi
MM. Clinical
Biomechanics of the Spine 1990]

"SITTING IS SAFE"?

I mentioned Adams and Hutton back in 1993 when a U.S. Public Health Service
(AHCPR)-sponsored Low
Back consensus panel (Bigos et al.) requested my peer review input - then
entirely ignored it - and assured Americans that "Sitting is safe."

Here's an excerpt of my peer review...

>>>>>>>> BEGIN excerpt of Gastaldo's 1993 peer review <<<<<<<<<


Nachemson vs. billions of Africans, Arabs and Asians

I respectfully suggest that the famous intradiscal pressure measurements of
distinguished Panel consultant Alf Nachemson do not constitute a "scientific
foundation" (p. 156, line 26) for the Panel's claim that "intradiscal
pressure measurements can also apply to sitting recommendations." (p. 157,
line 16)

For example, how should Nachemson's intradiscal pressure measurements be
applied to the majority of the world's humans, most of whom can rest
comfortably for hours in the flat-footed squatting position? Would the
Panel advise that our children - and billions of rural Arabs, Asians and
Africans - should stop squatting because squatting, a flexed posture,
increases intradiscal pressure (probably more than sitting) and therefore,
according to Panel speculation, increases "overall spine stress" (p. 157,
line 2) and "aggravates the back?" (p. 157, line 14).

In this regard, I know of no evidence that squatting cultures suffer more
back pain than chair-dwelling cultures, and much evidence that
chair-dwelling cultures suffer massive squatting activity intolerance.
Indeed, according to the Panel (noted above), "after a few weeks of limiting
symptoms, few patients ever again tolerate extreme activities and
positions..." (p. 168, line 2)

At the very least, the Panel's speculation that intradiscal pressure can
apply to sitting recommendations should be "explicitly stated as Panel
opinion" (p. 7, line 7) and balanced with Adams and Hutton's finding that
the flexed lumbar posture "improves the transport of metabolites in the
intervertebral discs, reduces the stresses on the apophyseal joints and on
the posterior half of the anulus fibrosus, and gives the spine a high
compressive strength." [Adams MA and Hutton WC. The effect of posture on the
lumbar spine. J Bone Joint Surg 1985;67B(4):625-9. Cited in W hite AA,
Panjabi MM. Clinical Biomechanics of the Spine 1990]

The first epsisode of low back pain and the "multiple recurrent episodes
within the next few years...less severe with gradually decreasing frequency"
(p. 163, line 6), may represent the beginning of the last stage in the loss
of an "extreme activity and position" (p. 168, line 12) called flat-footed
squatting.

In this regard, the Panel's statement of scope ("any back-related symptoms
producing activity intolerance" (p. 6, line 5), contains the assumption that
"even without detecting or defining any specific reason" (p. 168, line 12),
back-related symptoms produce activity intolerance - and not the other way
around. It may be that this culture's squatting activity intolerance is
producing chair-dwelling workers who can't comfortably rest in the squatting
position and who perhaps eventually suffer back pain as a result...

...[M]aking squatting an activity of daily living would certainly increase
"flexibility," a distinct concern of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Public Health Service.

Quoting from the PHS publication Healthy People 2000:

"Flexibility describes the range of motion in a joint or sequence of
joints. Those with greater flexibility may have a lower risk of future back
injury...Joint movement through the full range of motion helps to>improve
and maintain flexibility...

"...The performance of routine daily activities is particularly important
to maintaining functional independence and social integration in older
adults. Increasing public awareness of all of these potential benefits may
help to
encourage the pursuit of activities that will promote...flexibility."
[Harrell JA, Artz LM, Files A, Baker D (eds.). Healthy people 2000:
National health promotion and disease prevention objectives. DHHS Pub. No.
(PHS)91-50212, 1991:100]...

>>>>>>>> END excerpt of Gastaldo's 1993 review <<<<<<<<<<<<<

Bigos et al. - including doctors of chiropractic Haldeman and Triano - said
"Sitting is safe."

OTHER POSSIBLE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE GREAT SQUAT ROBBERY

(ALSO: VACCINATION FRAUD AND THE UNETHICAL DR. PERLE...)

Note: Chiropractic input is sometimes ignored because many doctors of
chiropractic are opposed to FORCED vaccination....It is therefore pertinent
here to discuss forced vaccination and fraudulent promotion of vaccination
using PLANNED endangerment of VACCINATED children. See below.

I SAY AGAIN: Regarding my title - Medicine's Vaccination Subluxation - I am
IN FAVOR of vaccination - as long as MDs obtain informed consent.

>>>>BEGIN excerpt of Medicine's Vaccination Subluxation
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2222

<snip>

STOPPING The Great Squat Robbery may,

PREVENT FALLS IN THE ELDERLY (attn: CDC Falls Prevention expert Judy
Stevens, PhD via jsa2@...)

Regardless, though, whether stopping the Great Squat Robbery prevents falls
in the elderly, hopefully Dr. Busse will talk to the "employers and
insurers" who fund him, about preventing loss of the fundamental human rest
posture...

I recently wrote to CDC Falls Prevention expert Judy Stevens, PhD via
jsa2@...:

HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS PREVENTION?

>>
>> A recent study found that in Beijing Chinese women - after a lifetime of
>> squatting - there was only 10% more knee osteoarthritis seen on x-ray
>> than
>> in white females in the US...
>>
>> And Beijing Chinese men evidenced LESS knee osteoarthritis - 7% less -
>> relative to white males in the US...
>>
>> LESS radiographic evidence of knee osteoarthritis in Beijing men - AFTER
>> A
>> LIFETIME OF SQUATTING.
>>
>> See Zhang et al. Association of squatting with increased prevalence of
>> radiographic tibiofemoral knee osteoarthritis. ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATISM
>> Vol.
>> 50, No. 4, April 2004, pp 1187-1192]
>>
>> For criticism of the Zhang study...
>>
>> See Can squatting prevent hip osteoarthritis?
>> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/
>> misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/fd3befd9f6335082?
>>
>> Whatever the case with knees - the Chinese are suffering a LOT less HIP
>> osteoarthritis...
>>
>> "[H]ip OA was 80-90% less frequent than in white persons in the US.
>> Identification of the genetic and environmental factors that underlie
>> these
>> differences may help elucidate the etiology and prevention of hip OA."
>> [Nevitt MC, Xu L, Zhang Y, Lui LY, Yu W, Lane NE, Qin M, Hochberg MC,
>> Cummings SR, Felson DT. Very low prevalence of hip osteoarthritis among
>> Chinese elderly in Beijing, China, compared with whites in the United
>> States: the Beijing osteoarthritis study. Arthritis Rheum. 2002
>> Jul;46(7):1773-9. PubMed abstract]
>>
>> In 1953, hip osteoarthritis was called "the
>> commonest clinical site of
>> severe osteoarthritis." [Harrison et al. J Bone Joint Surg
>> 1953;35B(4):598-626]...
>>
>> In 1974, orthopedic surgeon DR Gunn exclaimed "Don't sit: Squat!" in an
>> article in which he noted "the virtually complete absence of
>> primary degenerative arthritis of the hip" in Southeast Asians...
>> [Gunn DR Don't sit: Squat! Clin Orth Rel Res 1974(103):104-5. Taken
>> from a larger article by Gunn in the Indian Journal of Orthopaedic
>> Surgery]
>>
>> Hip osteoarthritis may still be the commonest clinical site of severe
>> osteoarthritis.
>>
>> Meanwhile, we chair-dwellers - as a consequence of our chair-dwelling -
>> fail
>> to take our hips through the full range of motion - as we lose a
>> fundamental
>> human rest posture.
>>
>> See Biomechanics experts to help babies?
>> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/
>> sci.med/msg/1d34be6cf94213a6?
>>
>> I mentioned less hip osteoarthritis to Barrett Dorko, PT who makes a
>> DYNAMITE observation...
>>
>> I wrote:
>>
>>>>>>BEGIN excerpt of Mr. Dorko's DYNAMITE - Mr. Dorko's video...
>> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1405
>>
>> Cultural posturing...We sit and stand for prolonged periods in situation
>> when most people on the planet squat... We actually lose our
>> tibio-talar "squatting" facets... We suffer far more hip
>> osteoarthritis...
>>
>> I diagnose a PROLONGED MOVEMENT DYSFUNCTION secondary to cultural
>> posturing - as in the APTA's PHILOSOPHICAL STATEMENT ON PHYSICAL THERAPY
>> (POSITION)
>> HOD 06-83-03-05 (Program 32)
>>
>> "Physical therapy is a health profession whose primary purpose is the
>> promotion of optimal human health and function through the application
>> of scientific principles to PREVENT, identify, assess, correct, or
>> alleviate acute or PROLONGED MOVEMENT DYSFUNCTION." (emphasis added)
>>
>> The APTA's PHILOSOPHICAL STATEMENT also states:
>>
>> "Physical therapy encompasses areas of specialized competence and
>> includes the development of new principles...."
>>
>> Could Mr. Dorko's DYNAMITE question turn into a new principle?
>>
>> "Is the epidemic of chronic physical pain in our society in some way the
>> result of our cultural posturing, posing, and distaste for personal
>> physical expression?"
>> http://qin.com/dorko/htdocs/articles/pain.htm
>>
>> It doesn't really matter whether loss of a fundamental human rest
>> posture causes pain or not. Loss of mobility is a big contributor to
>> America's multi-billion dollar per MONTH nursing home bill...
>>
>> Time and money are a-wastin'. The chairless school/chairless workplace
>> experiment proposed by Canadian orthopedic surgeon W. Harry Fahrni [Orth
>> Clin N Am 1975] is a
>> no-brainer...
>>
>> No one should ever be forced to squat; but children in our culture
>> should be allowed and encouraged to maintain into adulthood their innate
>> comfortable prolonged squatting ability...
>>
>> Perhaps we could ask China for help on this one...
>>
>> [Dorko:]"I understand that in China the converse is true. While verbal
>> expression is carefully chosen and monitored for its political
>> correctness, the parks each morning are filled with individuals doing
>> tai chi."
>> http://qin.com/dorko/htdocs/articles/pain.htm
>>
>> John Oldham, PT, of Vancouver BC helped Dr. Fahrni develop his postural
>> principles. Dr. Fahrni told me years ago that Mr. Oldham had remarked
>> that the first lesson in t'ai chi looked a lot like what Dr. Fahrni was
>> recommending for his low back patients... (It least I think it was Mr.
>> Oldham to whom Dr. Fahrni attributed this remark.)
>>
>> Back in 1986 when I first started thinking about this elusive-obvious
>> culture-wide loss of squatting ability, there was a problem: I couldn't
>> flat-foot-squat on a flat surface. I'd tip over backwards.
>>
>> Since I walked around the city a lot, I started squatting at those handy
>> handicapped/wheelchair/skateboard slopes that cities are putting in. In
>> many cities, every street corner is a driveway now - not a curb. Most
>> everyone can flat-foot-squat on a slope. (DON'T squat if you weren't
>> squatting yesterday. Start out in a T'ai Chi course...)
>>
>> Mr. Dorko, who I swear I've never met, must have been watching me. He
>> writes on his web page:
>>
>> "To move spontaneously and authentically is to invite disapproval.
>> People would stare, they would wonder what was wrong with you and, if
>> they couldn't stop you in some way, they would turn their attention
>> elsewhere. I don't think I'm exaggerating here. Just try a
>> little self-expression through movement in public and see what happens."
>> http://qin.com/dorko/htdocs/articles/pain.htm
>>
>> I've said before: It's not wise to criticize huge Slovaks who juggle
>> bowling balls in their spare time...
>>
>> But in addition to offering criticism, I am saying that Mr. Dorko's work
>> is wonderful - DYNAMITE - pregnant with possibilities - BIG
>> possibilities...
>>
>> Again quoting APTA's PHILOSOPHICAL STATEMENT ON PHYSICAL THERAPY
>> (POSITION)
>> HOD 06-83-03-05 (Program 32)
>>
>> "Physical therapy is a health profession whose primary purpose is the
>> promotion of optimal human health and function through the application
>> of scientific principles to prevent, identify, assess, correct, or
>> alleviate acute or PROLONGED MOVEMENT DYSFUNCTION." (emphasis added)
>>
>> I very much like the idea of a little bit of Chinese-American reverse
>> cultural imperialism - REGARDLESS of whether there are any health
>> benefits to be had above and beyond a massive culture-wide increase in
>> mobility.
>>
>>>>>>END excerpt of Mr. Dorko's DYNAMITE - Mr. Dorko's video...
>> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1405
>>
>> ONE LAST NOTE: Their may be PSYCHIATRIC benefits to allowing children to
>> maintain their innate comfortable prolonged squatting ability...
>>
>> In 1944, psychiatrist EA Strecker, MD indirectly suggested there may be
>> psychiatric ramifications of our culture-wide loss of a fundamental human
>> range of motion...
>>
>> "Are we not a crossroads in the path of our civilization when it would be
>> well for us to emulate that tribe of Amazon River natives who, from time
>> to
>> time, interrupt their customary routine of activities and squat on the
>> ground? Neither persuasion nor threat serves to move them until an
>> alloted
>> time has elapsed. They declare they are waiting for their 'souls to catch
>> up with their bodies...'" [E.A. Strecker, MD. 1944 Presidential Address
>> before the American Psychiatric Association. Am J Psychiatry.
>> 1944;101:1-8]
>>
>> PROBLEM: Western culture ROBS the comfortable prolonged flat-footed
>> squatting ability - and prominent PTs and DCs alike are remaining silent!
>>
>> See above.
>>
>> And see: Babies in danger: Dr. AJ Hedge's 'Preventive care in the form
>> of
>> patient education' can help...
>> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1049
>>
>> Dr. Hedges never replied - his fellow OBs are keeping birth canals closed
>> the "extra" up to 30% as they gruesomely pull with vacuums/forceps.
>>
>> I'll copy him Dr. Hedges instant email...hopefully he'll respond this
>> time...
>>
>> Copied to: Allan J. Hedges, MD
>> OBGYN
>> Willamette Women's Health Center
>> 235 SE Norton Lane, Suite B
>> McMinnville, OR 97128
>> Phone: 503.434.6688
>> Fax: 503.472.6531
>> VIA Clinic Manager: Aurora Ronning/TRIADHOSPITALS
>> aurora.ronning@...
>> Copied to TRIAD HOSPITALS via Corporate_Communications@...

[ADDENDUM Oct. 16, 2008: I'm sending this instant email to Dr. Hedges via:
allan.hedges@...]
>>
>> Thanks for reading everyone.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Todd
>>
>> Dr. Gastaldo
>> Hillsboro, Oregon
>> USA
>> todd@...
>>
>> This post will be archived for global access. Search for it at
>> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/
>


----- Original Message -----
From: Clapp, Dianne (CDC/CCEHIP/NCIPC) dqc2@...
To: tgastaldo@...
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:10 AM
Subject: Injury Center information


Dr. Gastaldo, as I promised I an providing the Injury Center's website which
will give you more information that you probably want to know.
Also, Dr. Stevens phone number is 770-488-4649.
If I can be of further assistance, please let me know.

Dianne Clapp
Executive Assistant to the Director
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4770 Buford Hwy., NE, MS F-63
Atlanta, GA 30341
Main: 770 488-4694/6
Personal: 770 488-1309
Fax: 770 488-4422

[ADDENDUM Sept. 21, 2008: No word back from CDC yet...I'll cc Judy again
via dqc2@... and jsa2@...]

[ADDENDUM Oct. 16, 2008: STILL no word back from CDC... I'll cc Judy get
again - via the same email addresses.]

BACK TO MEDICINE'S BIRTH-CANAL-CLOSING/SPINAL MANIPULATION CRIME...

MD-PEDIATRICIANS ARE ASKING FOR HELP FROM CHIROPRACTIC...

Vohra et al. [2007] said that concern for patient safety DEMANDS a greater
collaboration "particularly" with doctors
of chiropractic "such that we can investigate and report harms related to
spinal manipulation together."
--Sunita Vohra, MD FRCPC MSc et al. Adverse events associated with
pediatric spinal manipulation: a systematic review. Pediatrics. 2007
Jan;119(1):e275-83.
Epub 2006 Dec 18. PubMed abstract, emphasis added.

EMERGENCY. MD-obstetricians are committing spinal manipulation MASS CHILD
ABUSE.

MD-obstetrician experts have been LYING in an attempt to cover-up. See the
Four OB Lies mentioned below.

LAW ENFORCEMENT should stop the obvious birth-canal-closing/spinal
manipulation crime; but currently, law enforcement is looking the other way.

MDs know that law enforcement is looking the other way...

Steve Harris, MD arrogantly boasts:

"Without enforcement, there is no law. Without law, there is no crime.
These are elementary principles. Get an adult to explain them to you."
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/
28866f3384801ae9

SINCE law enforcement regards MDs as cultural authorities whose suspected
child abuse reports are to be acted upon....

In the interest of patient safety - in the interest of stopping mass child
abuse by MDs....

DCs SHOULD PUBLICLY DEMAND THE MD-PEDIATRICIAN COLLABORATION SUGGESTED BY
VOHRA ET AL.

Again, Vohra et al. [2007] said that concern for patient safety DEMANDS a
greater
collaboration "particularly" with doctors
of chiropractic "such that we can investigate and report harms related to
spinal manipulation together."
--Sunita Vohra, MD FRCPC MSc et al. Adverse events associated with
pediatric spinal manipulation: a systematic review. Pediatrics. 2007
Jan;119(1):e275-83.
Epub 2006 Dec 18. PubMed abstract, emphasis added.


Surely health professionals - MDs and DCs alike - can agree: The gruesome
spectacle of MD-obstetricians senselessly KEEPING birth canals closed the
"extra" up to 30% when babies get stuck is OBVIOUS child abuse.

ODDLY...

STEPHEN PERLE, DC...

Oddly, the above mentioned Connecticut-licensed DC - Prof. Stephen Perle of
the University of
Bridgeport Chiropractic College - is remaining silent instead of reporting
the
obvious birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation mass child abuse by MDs...

Prof. Perle IGNORES fraud being committed by MDs even as he criticizes his
own profession for committing fraud.

Prof. Perle says it is, "FRIGHTENING...that the rate of discipline for fraud
for DCs was almost 9 times higher than for MDs..." Emphasis added.
http://www.accc-chiro.com/ACCC%20Newsletter%20Spring%2005.pdf

Prof. Perle said further: "One could imply that [chiropractic] consultants
are needed
more than ever or that in California they have been doing a good job helping
to find the bad eggs in our profession."
http://www.accc-chiro.com/ACCC%20Newsletter%20Spring%2005.pdf

MESSAGE FOR PROF. PERLE: YES - do find "bad eggs" in chiropractic - it is
important work -
but why your SELECTIVE fraud focus - why the silence about massive amounts
of unprosecuted MD fraud?

[ADDENDUM Sept. 21, 2008: DR. PERLE'S RED HERRING: Sept. 10, 2008: Stephen
Perle, DC writes:
"Trying to
deflect criticism of chiropractic by saying, 'What about medicine?' is a
kind of argument called a 'red herring' argument in formal logic. It also is
an example of a 'two wrongs make a right' argument. What the medical
profession does or doesn't do shouldn't matter to our profession. If all we
did was point out medicine's errors as an excuse for continuing to have our
own problems, we would never improve. We can benchmark ourselves against the
medical profession's positive behaviors or the positive behaviors of other
professions. But if they have poor performance, it's not an excuse for our
poor performance...my topic is chiropractic ethics, not the ethics of the
medical profession. I should no more comment on medicine's ethics than I
should comment about the moral compass of any other vocation that is not
chiropractic. This is a column about chiropractic ethics, period."
http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=53412

DR. GASTALDO COMMENTS: I **welcome** criticism of chiropractic! Dr.
Perle's "red herring" - [suggesting that all DCs are] "trying to
deflect criticism of chiropractic" - this is NOT why I point out obvious
massive
MD
crimes. I protest the MD crimes because I want to STOP them. Dr. Perle is
sticking his "ethical" head in the sand - ignoring a GOLDEN opportunity for
the chiropractic profession to save tiny lives and tiny limbs and PREVENT
more vertebral subluxations than DCs will ever be able to charge to adjust
by hand.

Dr. Perle teaches in Connecticut.

According to the Connecticut Chiropractic Association:

"[A] difficult birth...can strain the muscles, ligaments and joints, causing
spinal subluxation."
http://www.ctchiro.com/Articles.php?topic=9&story=42

>>>>END ADDENDUM

Why **is** Dr. Perle ignoring birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation by
OBGYNs?

Prof. Perle, you have selectively made chiropractic look bad - patted your
fellow "chiropractic consultants" on the back - and silently helped to
PERPETUATE the
birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation MD child abuse crime.

You are breaking the law - babies be damned...

The child abuse is OBVIOUS - sometimes fatal.

You could be subjected to criminal prosecution and loss of license for your
failure to offer children the minimum protection offered by the child
protection statutes (reporting).

The State of Connecticut says:

"[P]ursuant to Section 17a-101 of the Connecticut
General Statutes...Suspected child maltreatment of any kind, regardless of
the identity of the alleged perpetrator must be reported...Reports must be
made within twelve hours of the moment you suspect the abuse/neglect has
occurred....failure to meet reporting responsibilities may subject you to
criminal prosecution and possible action against your license..."
http://www.dph.state.ct.us/Licensure/apps/PLIS/ChildAbuseRptng.htm

The State of Connecticut says further: "Mandated reporters are
REQUIRED [emphasis added] to report or cause a report to be made when, in
the ordinary course of their employment or profession, they have reasonable
cause to suspect or believe that a child under the age of 18 has been
abused, neglected or is placed in imminent risk of serious harm.
(Connecticut General Statutes §17a-101a)" "Mandated reporters who, OUTSIDE
the ordinary course of their employment or profession, have reasonable cause
to suspect or believe that a child under the age of 18 is in imminent risk
of being abused or has been abused or neglected, CAN and SHOULD make a
report to the Hotline...HOW TO REPORT...Mandated reporters must report
orally to the Department of Children and Families' (DCF) Hotline [DCF Child
Abuse and Neglect Hotline: 1-800-842-2288] or a law enforcement agency
within 12 hours of suspecting that a child has been abused or neglected and
must submit a written report (DCF-136 form) to DCF within 48 hours of making
the oral report. DCF is required to tape record all reports to the Hotline."
[Emphases added]
http://www.ct.gov/dcf/cwp/view.asp?a=2556&q=314384

Prof. Perle has requested that I not email him further - saying that the
birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation child abuse of MD-obstetricians is
"my" issue - not his...

[AGAIN: According to the Connecticut Chiropractic Association: "[A]
difficult birth...can strain the muscles, ligaments and joints, causing
spinal subluxation."
http://www.ctchiro.com/Articles.php?topic=9&story=42

[Failure to try to PREVENT that which one's profession charges to treat is
unethical - a fraud.]

Prof. Perle indicates on his CV that he represents many DCs in regard to
"Prevention of Fraud"...

"American Chiropractic Association Subcommittee for the Prevention of Fraud
and Abuse 2007 - Present..."
http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/~perle/Documents/cv.pdf

Is Prof. Perle ("You have your issue and I have mine") trying to tell me
that NO members of ACA are interested in preventing the
birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation fraud of MDs?

[ADDENDUM Sept. 21, 2008: DR. CYNTHIA VAUGHN, you are an ACA delegate and
your husband DR. JAMES EDWARDS is a former ACA Chairman of the Board. Is it
true that no members of ACA are interested in preventing the
birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation fraud of MDs? I hoping that
chiropractic physicians at the American Public Health Association/APHA
(Stites et al.) will join me in bringing the fraud to the attention of APHA.
I will copy them (Stites et al.) via Stites_J@...
<Stites_J@...>; ecooperstein@... <ecooperstein@...>
AFairweather@... <AFairweather@...>; pdougherty@...
<pdougherty@...>; mhaas@... <mhaas@...>;
gstevens@... <gstevens@...>; will.evans@...
<will.evans@...>; lori.byrd@... <lori.byrd@...>;
jebrimhall@... <jebrimhall@...>; maria.hondras@...
<maria.hondras@...>; drbhillsberg@... <drbhillsberg@...>;
ehurwitz@... <ehurwitz@...>; Dana Lawrence
<Dana.Lawrence@...> END ADDENDUM]

PRINCIPLES OF CHIROPRACTIC AND ADJUSTING...

The Connecticut General Statutes Chapter 372 Chiropractic Section 20-24
defines the practice of
chiropractic as "the science of adjustment...of vertebral subluxations..."

Section 20-28 stipulates that the subjects of the written examination "shall
[include]...principles of chiropractic and adjusting..."
http://www.dph.state.ct.us/Licensure/apps/chirostats.pdf

The FIRST "principle of chiropractic and adjusting" - if there is one - has
to be: DO NOT ADJUST WHEN THERE IS NO REASON.

OBVIOUSLY, when the birth canal is senselessly closed the "extra" up to 30%,
there is no reason for MD-obstetricians to be
pulling/manipulating/"adjusting" with forceps and vacuums. First allow the
birth canal to open maximally and if the baby is still stuck - THEN
pull/manipulate. Better - do not close the birth canal the "extra" up to
30% in the first place.

Why isn't Perle - the ACA's 2007 "Prevention of Fraud and Abuse" expert -
helping to stop birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation fraud by MDs?

Doctors of Chiropractic are missing a golden opportunity to save tiny lives
and tiny
limbs and PREVENT more "vertebral subluxations" than DCs will ever be able
to charge to adjust by hand.

PREVENTION...

The World Federation of Chiropractic says chiropractic is concerned
with PREVENTION, as in,

"A health profession concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and PREVENTION
OF MECHANICAL DISORDERS OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM, and the effects of
these disorders on the functions of the nervous system and general health.
There is an emphasis on manual treatments including spinal adjustment and
other joint and soft-tissue manipulation."
--WFC Dictionary Definition, World Federation of Chiropractic, 2001,
emphasis added
http://www.wfc.org/website/WFC/website.nsf/WebPage/DefinitionOfChiropractic?Open
\
Document

The World Health Organization says chiropractic also indicates that
chiropractic is concerned with
prevention "with a particular focus on subluxations," as in,

"A health care profession concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and
PREVENTION OF DISORDERS OF THE NEUROMUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM and the effects
of these disorders on general health. There is a an emphasis on manual
techniques, including joint adjustment and/or manipulation with a particular
focus on subluxations."
--The WHO definition, World Health Organization, Guidelines on Chiropractic,
2005, emphasis added
http://www.wfc.org/website/WFC/website.nsf/WebPage/DefinitionOfChiropractic?Open
\
Document

Prof. Perle has said:

"If you are aware of fraud, abuse or unethical
behavior, it is your responsibility to file a complaint to your respective
licensing authority."
http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/25/15/15.html

This is my point exactly. But law enforcement and medical boards are
looking
the other way - ignoring the MD lies.

Yes, DCs should report to licensing authorities - and I have reported to the
Oregon Medical Board - and this post
will be copied to Oregon's Atty Genl Hardy Myers via
hardy.myers@....

As more and more people report, law enforcement
will act.

INSURANCE CARRIERS...

Prof. Perle writes in his CV...

"American College of Chiropractic Consultants [ACCC] 2002-2006"
http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/~perle/Documents/cv.pdf

Prof. Perle is still listed as a consultant in the ACCC directory.
http://www.accc-chiro.com/Directory.html

Prof. Perle and his (former?) fellow members of the Association College of
Chiropractic Consultants/ACCC are "independent contractors providing
advisory consulting services to virtually every major insurance carrier..."
http://www.accc-chiro.com/

Until law enforcement stops the birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation
crime, there should be DC reports of the massive MD
crime in "ethics" columns and in correspondence to insurance carriers from
ACCC chiropractic consultants - including Perle.

CONNECTICUT DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH

"Dr. Perle also serves as one of the consultants to the Connecticut
Department of Public Health, which reviews complaints against
chiropractors."
http://www.chiroweb.com/columnist/perle/bio.html

I will cc this to Connecticut Dept. of Public Health Commissioner J.
Robert Galvin, M.D., M.P.H. and Deputy Commissioner Norma Gyle, RN, PhD via
webmaster.dph@...,oplc.dph@...,oplc.dph@...
,oplc.dph@...

I will also cc this to the department's PRACTITIONER LICENSING AND
INVESTIGATIONS - Section Chief Jennifer Filiponne via
oplc.dph@... .

Since Prof. Perle has asked that I not email him further, I will email Prof.
Perle's colleagues at the University of Bridgeport. Hopefully they will 1)
publicly call for the MD investigation-and-reporting collaboration
"demanded" out of concern for patient safety [Vohra et al. 2007]; and 2)
immediately report the obvious mass child abuse as called for in Connecticut
law quoted above.

Hopefully, Prof. Perle's University of Bridgeport colleagues will urge him
to use his ethics column in Dynamic Chiropractic to call upon DCs to help
stop the birth-canal-closing/spinal manipulation crime of MD-obstetricians -
esp. since MD-pediatricians [Vohra et al. 2007] have called for
collaboration "particularly" with doctors of chiropractic in regard to
investigating and reporting harms of spinal manipulation of children.

NOTE TO READERS WHO ARE NOT HEALTH PROFESSIONALS...

In Oregon (and probably in most states), ALL persons (not just mandatory
reporters) are encouraged to report.

According to the State of Oregon:

"ALL OREGON CITIZENS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SUSPECTED [CHILD ABUSE] TO DHS
OR LAW ENFORCEMENT. Over 25 percent of the substantiated cases of child
abuse are reported by concerned citizens who are not required to report.
Failure to report is a violation and carries a maximum penalty of $1,000.00.
Mandatory reporters have also been successfully sued for damages in civil
court for failing to report." [emphasis added]
http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/children/abuse/cps/report.shtml

IMPORTANT NOTE: MD-obstetricians indirectly ADMIT ON VIDEO that
they are routinely closing birth canals up to 30%. (The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists'/ACOG's Shoulder Dystocia video purports to
demonstrate how to
allow the birth canal to open maximally when shoulders get stuck - which is
the indirect admission that MD-obstetricians are routinely closing birth
canals up to 30%.)

The ACOG Shoulder Dystocia video purports to demonstrate how to allow the
birth canal to open maximally - but actually demonstrates a maneuver
(McRoberts with the mother still on her sacrum) which keeps the birth canal
closed. This is OB Cover-up Lie #4...

For all Four OB Cover-up Lies (they are whoppers)...

See Dents in babies' skulls"
http://groups.google.com/group/
misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/08abfc7ff242150e

>>>>>END excerpt of Is CBP's 'ideal spine' really valid? The profanity of
>>>>>Chiropractic Biophysics scion Deed E. Harrison, DC...
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2327

When Eve-Line Boule, chercheur associé at CÉPAM wrote:

"[S]quatting was a regular behavior used until the end of the Middle Ages,
and after this period a
progressive decrease occurs..." [Am J Phys Anthropol 2001 May;115(1):50-6]

I replied:

The Great Squat Robbery that started in the Middle Ages starts anew in
elementary schools
every year!

WHY are we letting our culture rob our children of an innate rest posture as
MDs (Gardosi et al.)
use this robbery as an excuse for *another* robbery that is totally
senseless?

Both The Great Birth Robbery and The Great Squat Robbery cause
MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURIES and "the ACA Sports Council's main purpose is to
provide service in the PREVENTION...of musculoskeletal injuries."
http://www.acasc.org/ (emphasis added)

Why did ACA Sports Council member Dr. Stephen Perle run the other way?

ACA Sports Council please don't remain silent.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
todd@...

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Theodore Forcum, DC, DACBSP
President
11385 SW Schools Ferry Rd.
Beaverton, OR 97008
(503) 524-9040
Via forcum@...

Jim Kurtz, DC, DACRB, CCSP
1st Vice President
33400 13th Place S.
Federal Way, WA 98003
(253) 838-6070
Via jkurtzdc@...

Guillermo Bermudez, DC, CCSP
2nd Vice President
4900 SW Griffith Dr. #110
Beaverton, OR 97005
(503) 644-2225
Via drbermudez@...

Shane Espinoza, DC, CCSP
Secretary
10395 NW Glencoe Rd #500
North Plains, OR 97133
(503) 647-9944
Via drespinoza@...

Carlo Guadagno, DC
Treasurer
15118 sunset Drive
Miami,Fl. 33193
(305) 386-9559
Via WKChiro@...

Sheila Wilson, DC, CCSP
Past President
5676 Georgetown Rd.
Indianapolis, IN 46254
(317) 297-8800
Via indysportsdoc@...

Keith S. Overland, DC
ACA Board Liaison
83 East Ave., Ste. 313
Norwalk, CT 06851-4902
(203) 838-9795
Via doco57@...

Kristopher Birkland
Student ACA Sports Council President
3840 E. Old Stone Circle S
Chandler, AZ 85249
(602) 312-3757
Via kmb@...

Ed Feinberg, DC, DACBSP
225 Washington St #D
Santa Clara, CA 95050
(408) 296-5800
Via ed.feinberg@...

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