Brought to you by Ventura Chiropractor - Dr. Syd Dhillon

YOUR SPINE, NERVES, AND HORMONES
The female sexual organs - the ovaries, oviducts (tubes), uterus, cervix, vagina, glands and related structures - all need a healthy nerve supply from the spine to function properly. Doctors of chiropractic help see that the sexual organ/spinal column relationship is a healthy one. Let’s discuss some of the common conditions associated with the female reproductive system.

THE HYSTERECTOMY HOAX
Hysterectomy, the amputation of the uterus, which may also include the removal of both tubes and both ovaries, is done to over 600,000 Amercian women a year. Many are performed on women under 30. "These operations are almost always unnecessary," says Nora W. Coffey, president of the HERS (Hysterectomy Education Resources and Services) Foundation: As Stanley West, M.D. has written in The Hysterectomy Hoax: "More than 90% of all hysterectomies are unnecessary. Worse, the surgery can have long-lasting physical, emotional, and sexual consequences that may undermine your health and well-being."

Doctors are not taught the true damage hysterectomy can cause: "I was taught castration (removal of ovaries) does not affect a woman’s sexuality, but women tell quite another story."

MENOPAUSE
Many doctors consider menopause a disease instead of a normal physiologic state. Because of this attitude, women are often subjected to drug therapies that may cause dangerous side effects. As Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. has stated: Since medical treatment for hot flashes for over five decades has proven to be more dangerous than the disease (what disease?) and since the latest non-hormonal treatments are no less frightening than their predecessors, my best advice to women with hot flashes is to stay away from the doctor. Talk to plenty of other women. Read books on the subject by women who are not doctors. If you must go to a doctor, remember that you are receiving experimental drugs whose side effects become more visible year after year.

SPINAL CARE
It is no coincidence that many who suffer from menstrual cramps also suffer from neck or back pain. In one study of 122 dysmenorrhea sufferers, most had lower back problems and spinal displacements. Perhaps that is why many women who initially visited a chiropractor for neck or back problems experienced beneficial effects on menstrual cramps, pain and other gynecological problems. There are, however, many women who suffer from menstrual problems and other health conditions who will not go to a chiropractor because: "If I don’t have a backache, why go to the chiropractor?"

Many other organs, other than the sexual ones are responsible for reproductive health. For example, chemicals produced by the ovaries and adrenal glands that are essential for reproduction are broken down by the liver. If the liver isn’t working properly, these chemicals can build up to unhealthy levels and cause fibroid tumors in the uterus account for at least 1/3 of all gynecological admissions to hospitals.

THE SPINE/PELVIS RELATIONSHIP
Many women who suffer from a wide variety of pelvic and gynecological conditions have discovered the natural benefits of chiropractic care. Patients have also observed that menopausal symptoms including depression, hot flashes, back or joint pain, irritability, headaches, or fatigue, have been reduced from chiropractic spinal care. Dr. J.E. Browning is a doctor of chiropractic who has written extensively on the chiropractic management of patients with pelvic problems. His clinical observations have led him to state that, "Various disturbances in pelvic organ function have been successfully managed by chiropractic...symptoms(include) bladder, bowel, gynecologic, and sexual dysfunction..."