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. And if it were preventable, could it change the way we view women’s healthcare?

Pelvic Misalignment Can Influence Gynecological Health

In 1992 my wife, Betty 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 Betty’s accident and how it changed the shape of her pelvis. I asked her to do her regular pelvic examination and give me her verbal findings. I would then adjust her and allow the doctor to redo the pelvic examination. She agreed, saying, “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 Betty was on the table, I showed the doctor how Betty’s pubic bones were misaligned. Her right pubic bone was higher than the left one. I also showed her how Betty’s right abdominal wall was tighter. The doctor acknowledged that she could see and feel this. She began her examination and Betty 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 Betty could not recall a pain reaction like this.

“Could this be the source of all the undiagnosed pelvic pain I encounter in so many of my patients?”

The doctor said, “I can’t get to the right ovary; the uterus is in the way. This feels completely asymmetrical.” She then commented that she could easily get to the left ovary. Betty 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 Betty’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, Betty 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 thing 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.

Many Gynecological Health Issues Are Preventable

I feel that many of the gynecological issues women face are due to pelvic misalignment. The condition I saw in the anatomy lab years ago was 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, The Level Pelvis Method for Pregnancy and Birthing Ease. 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. She replied, “All of them…” and rolled her eyes 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 fell 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.