Cerebral palsy (ICP), hypoxic lesions of the central nervous system in newborns, increased nervous excitability syndrome, movement disorders syndrome, postpartum plexitis of the newborn, optic nerve atrophy, etc. - all these terrible diagnoses differ only in varying degrees of severity of trauma to the cervical spine during childbirth.

How does everything work out?

This branch of medicine is the easiest to understand the causes of these diseases.

1. "Caesarean section" and birth trauma are synonymous!

This statement was made at a lecture by Associate Professor DMI Ph.D. obstetrician - gynecologist Pirli Leonid Ivanovich in 1989 caused surprise of students, and he explained in detail the whole process of childbirth:

During normal childbirth, the child moves to the external birth canal along the mother's spinal column and sacrum without serious kinks, in a straight line. During a "caesarean section", an incision is made in the anterior abdominal wall of the mother, and the fetus is removed from the mother's womb at an angle of 90⁰ to the axis of motion. Naturally, it is impossible not to injure the child if each section of the spine is bent at such an angle. Therefore, in Soviet times, there were two indications for a "caesarean section": a threat to the life of the mother or a threat to the life of the fetus!

2. Induced labor! Everyone knows the situation when mothers in the maternity hospital carry out “stimulation” of labor activity, tk. ostensibly at mother weak patrimonial activity. Then the fetal bladder opens, because. allegedly, due to weak labor, the waters did not break ... Or maybe the woman simply could not bear the pregnancy yet? Maybe it's not time for her to give birth? Or maybe “we figured she was already 41 weeks pregnant” just made a mistake with the calculations? Why doctors do this, we will not consider, and without this there is something to talk about. We will talk about how such a “harmless” procedure ends as labor induction. How do you feel if at an official reception you urgently need to go to the toilet, but you can’t get out? The body of a woman who was going to give birth on Friday at 8.00 in the morning feels about the same, but was forced to do it on Thursday at 21.00. STRESS!!! Under the influence of stimulating hormones, abruptly, without a gradual increase in dose, under the control of self-regulation mechanisms in the mother's body, the uterus begins powerful contractions and pushes the fetus to the external birth canal. And the external birth canal is not previously notified about this! They are in a collapsed state, as evidenced by the fetal bladder that has not even broken and the water that has not broken. And then the trouble happens. The uterus pushes the child out, the child rests against the incompletely opened birth canal, and endless contractions “wear down” the neck of the fetus. With an incredible effort, squeezing outward, the baby’s head pushes the mother’s pelvic bones, which are not ready for childbirth, crushes the mucous and muscle tissue of the maternal external birth canals (here are the “internal seams” that women talk about as something natural, as if it’s normal, i. to. and the girlfriends had the same). And yet it is born. Thank God!

3. The entanglement of the fetus with the umbilical cord. During the final stage of the birth process, often turning over in the womb, the fetus wraps around itself from 1 to 3 turns of the umbilical cord, and most often around the neck. In itself, this phenomenon is common, but the danger still exists. Under certain conditions, stretched, the umbilical cord is a “lever” or a stop, on which, with a careless flexion movement of the fetal neck, a vertebra can be displaced (remember how you are trying to separate a boiled chicken neck? You just put your finger on one side and bend the entire structure on this point).

How does everything explained in the previous paragraph anatomically look like? With deep gratitude and respect, I want to remember my teachers at the Department of Anatomy of the DMI. A galaxy of outstanding teachers who presented anatomy as a higher art. Led by our ten assistant Andres Rodriguez Vara Compillo Lopez. Lectures were read by professors Sergei Evgenievich Stebelsky and Vadim Danilovich Makovetsky. Imagine that each lecture, each of its sentences was accompanied by the movement of colored chalk on the blackboard, and at the end of the lecture, a colored picture of a living human body, with vessels and nerves, muscles and bones of the skeleton, was wiped off by the student on duty, so that in its place, at the next lecture, an artistic product of another part of the human body. I bow at the feet in God to our deceased teachers.

Let's try to figure out how blood is supplied (and innervated) to our head. Considering that we are not anatomists, we do not dive into the exact names of each branch of the nerve and vessel. We draw a schematic diagram, without precise marking of the details that create it.

1. The head is separated from the body by the neck, through which pass:

A) the spinal cord, which connects the brain to the rest of the body, and transmits all commands to control the body from the head to each organ (and of course from the organ to the head).

B) arteries and veins that supply blood to the organs of the head (tongue, eyes, muscles, etc.), and directly to the brain. Blood is delivered to the head from the heart, to which it returns through the pulmonary circulation.

C) the physical frame that holds all this, consisting of the bones of the spine and the musculo-ligamentous apparatus, fixing and connecting this entire structure.

2. The nutrition of the facial part of the head, the meninges of the brain and collaterally some structures of the brain itself is carried out by the famous carotid artery (Arteria carotis communis), the branches of which nourish the tongue and sinuses, the periorbital spaces of the eye (except for the ophthalmic artery and nerve, which are cranial) and the oropharynx , skin and muscles of the head, ethmoid bone and auditory (with vestibular) apparatus.

But what about the spinal cord and brain?

3. And this is quite interesting. In general, the nutrition of all elements of the brain and spinal cord is carried out by the vertebral artery (Arteria VERTEBRAL), one of the branches of which, at the level of the 6th - 7th cervical vertebrae, penetrates into the spinal canal through the holes in the lateral ligament of the spine and supplies blood to the cervical part of the spinal cord. . The other branch of this artery, following further along the neck, is divided into 2 branches in the region of the 2nd cervical vertebra, goes around it, and at the level of the 1st cervical vertebra (atlas), through the same holes in the ligament of the spine, enters the base of the brain, and flows into the annular artery of the base of the brain (Arteria BAZILAR). This is how our brain is supplied with blood! Now imagine that this vertebra has shifted and pinched the artery or vein that supplies blood to the brain! The artery and vein cease to supply enough blood to the brain, and those departments that receive less nutrition cease to function fully (and with prolonged lack of nutrition, they atrophy). Need to tell where people of the older age group have a stroke? It is necessary to tell where the newborns have the diagnoses written in the table of contents of this article? Need to explain why only manual correction of the neck can save?

Treatment:

Reposition of the displaced cervical vertebrae, restoration of their correct anatomical position in the shortest possible time after the injury received by the child (optimally right in the hospital after the end of the birth process). Those. the main thing is to eliminate the causes that cause circulatory disorders in the brain and spinal cord.

Why vse-taki medicines treat signs, without eliminating the reason?

The most difficult thing to implement is the provision of pathognomonic treatment (treatment of the cause of the disease, not symptoms) of the above pathology due to both objective and subjective reasons, and why in Ukraine these causes affect the health of children everywhere, but sporadically (periodically occurring) all over the world?

1. In Ukraine, manual therapy has not been a medical specialty since the early 1990s.

2. After the defeat of traditional medicine in the early 1990s, until today, only a few doctors and several dozen traditional healers in Ukraine have mastered the manual correction of the spine, especially the cervical spine. It’s not that there is no one to hire at the maternity hospital, in general, you can’t find a chiropractor who takes on neck correction “by day with fire”.

3. Wonderful diagnostic doctors - pediatric neurologists, wonderful modern diagnostic equipment and drug symptomatic therapy, unfortunately, cannot change the spatial position of a displaced vertebra, and establish a full blood supply through a physically pinched or spasmodically narrowed (due to infringement of the nerve controlling vascular tone) by a displaced vertebra arteries and veins.

4. A new era in child neurology, which began after the publication of the scientific works of the greatest scientific mind of our time, Professor Alexander Yuryevich Ratner, was accepted by the entire civilized world. The structure of care for children with injuries of the cervical spine and spinal cord in maternity hospitals in England, Germany, Italy, France, USA, Canada, Mexico, China, Southeast Asia, Russia, Belarus has been completely redesigned. In the maternity hospitals of most of these countries, chiropractors (chiropractors) are on the staff of clinics and maternity hospitals. In Ukraine, we read paragraph 1 of this article.

5. By the healthcare system of developed countries, curation and treatment of this pathology begins already in the maternity hospital. After all, it is quite clear that the blood circulation of the brain, disturbed as a result of an injury to the cervical spine, leads to physical death and atrophy of the brain tissue. This is the reason for the excellent therapeutic effect of manual therapy in the first few days or even weeks after birth (even after the most severe birth injuries); good and satisfactory effect in the treatment of children in the first months of life; and, to varying degrees, improving the quality of life, but not leading to a complete recovery, the result of treatment when children are treated during the years of life (and the older the child, the less pronounced the therapeutic effect as a result of the treatment).

CONCLUSIONS:

1. Treatment of a child who has received an injury to the cervical spine during childbirth should begin as early as possible, ideally immediately after childbirth.

2. Without manual correction of the spine, treatment becomes symptomatic and does not lead to a complete recovery.

3. Symptomatic therapy alleviates the suffering of the child, with mild injuries of the spine, it can often lead to a stable remission for a long period, but, as a rule, does not lead to a complete restoration of the normal functioning of the central nervous system.

4. Childbirth should be (in the vast majority) natural, on time, and you need to give birth when the time has come, and not when it suits you (for 24 years, the invariable requirement of the WHO-World Health Organization to the state of Ukraine: - "organize natural, physiological childbirth in women.