How Proper Pelvic Bone Alignment Can Change Women’s Healthcare Forever

I was an anatomy dissection instructor at Life West Chiropractic College for seven years. I observed that more than half of the female cadaver’s I dissected had the uterus, fallopian tubes and an ovary shifted to one side and adhesed to one psoas muscle. The fibroid tumor would be formed on the side of the shift. So if the uterus was pulled over to the right side, the fibroids would be on the right side of the uterus. I wondered what was causing this and if it were preventable.

In 1992 my wife, Diane, was in a car accident. Her right foot was on the brake pedal and the event displaced her right hip bone. This was very painful for her. She had a history of cervical cancer. She was in her fifth year of being post-surgery and she was getting checked semiannually. Her next semiannual appointment was two days after the car accident. I went in with her as I knew the doctor and I wanted to propose an experiment. I told her about Diane’s accident and how it changed the shape of her pelvis. I asked her to do her regular pelvic examination, give me her verbal findings and then let me adjust her and redo the pelvic examination. She agreed and said “I was taught in school that these bones don’t move, but I’ve had babies and I’ve been adjusted by chiropractors, so I know they move.”

While Diane was on the table, I showed the doctor how Diane’s pubic bones were misaligned. Her right pubic bone was higher than the left one. I also showed her how Diane’s right abdominal wall was tighter. The doctor acknowledged that she could see and feel this. She began her examination and Diane arched her back off the table. She was in terrible pain. In at least 45 exams over the past 6 years, neither the doctor nor Diane could not recall a pain reaction like this.

The doctor said “I can’t get to the right ovary; the uterus is in the way. This feels completely asymmetrical” and then commented that she can easily get to the left ovary. Diane said it didn’t hurt as much for the doctor to go to the left. I waited for her to finish her examination and then I realigned Diane’s pelvis. When the doctor performed the examination a second time, both were shocked that there was no pain.  The doctor said, “I can easily get to the right ovary, this feels symmetrical in here now. Could this be the source of all the undiagnosed pelvic pain I encounter in so many of my patients?”

When the marriage ended, Diane moved away and I didn’t see her for thirteen years. During that meeting I inquired about her gynecological health and she said, “I am scheduled for a hysterectomy next Tuesday morning. I can hardly wait to get this shit out of me!” I asked if she thought that the car accident in 1992 was responsible for her need to have a hysterectomy. She said, “absolutely.”  She had stopped getting adjustments and she ignored her pelvic misalignment for thirteen years.

I feel that gynecological health is related to pelvic alignment. The condition I saw in the anatomy lab years ago was in fact preventable. Pelvic alignment is not looked upon by the gynecological and obstetrical doctors as being important. I feel this is wrong. Women need to know that their health and reproductive viability are connected to proper health care which includes pelvic alignment.

Sally Hill is the registered nurse and midwife who wrote the introduction to my book “If Mom is not Happy, No One is Happy”. I taught her how to align a pelvis to help with labor and delivery for her patients. I saw her a few months later and she said that what I had taught her was “killing her”. I asked “why?” She said that she was now the “go-to person for all difficult labor and deliveries at Alta Bates and Summit hospitals”. I asked how many of those were caused by misaligned pelvises. And she said, “all of them…” as if it was a stupid question. I asked if we could make this information available to the gynecological and obstetrics communities and she laughed so hard she almost rolled off the table.

I feel I have a huge responsibility to try to change things. Women are suffering from painful pregnancy, fibroid tumors and even infertility due to a misaligned pelvis.  Babies are born with birth related trauma due to stalled labors.  As unbelievable as it may sound, this is preventable with simple adjusting techniques that anyone can do. I cannot stress this enough. Opioid medications are not a solution.  We cannot ignore the alignment of the pelvic bones.