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September 13th, 2010

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The “Chiropractic” Story of Masha and Dasha

The new mother was told that her twin babies had died after birth. However the truth was far different: they were sent to an institute near Moscow to be studied. This was to be the fate of “Masha” and “Dasha,” one of the most unusual sets of “Siamese” or conjoined twins ever born.

Identical twins are formed when a fertilized egg divides into two eggs. The two eggs grow into two babies who are identical in every respect. Conjoined or Siamese twins are formed in the same way as identical twins but the eggs, for some reason, don’t completely separate; instead, they remain partially attached. It was the unique way in which the twins were connected that caused Soviet scientists to take such an interest in them.

Shared Blood

Although Masha and Dasha had four arms, they had only three legs. They stood on two of their legs, one controlled by Masha, one by Dasha (they were five before they learned how to walk) while a third, vestigial leg remained in the air behind them. Their upper intestines were separated but they shared a single lower intestine and rectum. They had four kidneys and one bladder, and often disagreed on when to urinate. They had a common reproductive system.

Because their circulatory systems were interconnected, the twins shared each other’s blood. Therefore, a bacterium or virus that entered one twin’s blood stream would soon be seen in the blood of her sister. Yet surprisingly, illness affected them differently. Dasha was short-sighted, prone to colds and right handed. Masha smoked occasionally, had a healthier constitution, higher blood pressure than her sister, good eyesight and was left-handed.

The twins differing health patterns present a mystery. Why did one become ill with a childhood disease, like measles for example, while the other did not? The measles “bug” was in both of their bodies, in their collective bloodstream; so why didn’t both get the measles?

Evidently there is more to “getting the measles” than having the measles “bug.” This phenomenon was seen over and over again with the girls (flu, colds and other childhood diseases were all experienced separately). If germs alone had the power to cause infectious diseases, why would one of the twins be disease free while the other was ill? What was it in their makeup that differentiated one from the other?

The Difference

The answer was not far to seek. Although Masha and Dasha had common circulatory, digestive, excretory, lymphatic, endocrine and skeletal systems (they were joined at the hips), they had separate spinal columns and spinal cords. This was the only important difference between the two girls.

Nature’s Laboratory

In Masha and Dasha, nature’s “laboratory” devised an experiment that no human researcher could ever duplicate. These extraordinary twins are an invaluable example confirming that there is much more to “catching” a disease than simply breathing in germs; germs can make you sick if and only if your body provides them fertile ground to grow in. The state of your nervous system can determine whether you have high or low resistance to disease.

If you are suffering from disease, the health of your nervous system will play a decisive role in whether or not (and how rapidly) you will recover. By keeping your spinal column and nervous system free from subluxation stress, chiropractic care keeps you in a higher state of health.

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Masha and Dasha were to become celebrities when they appeared on a popular national television program in Russia. They were reunited with their mother (their father had since died) and are hopeful: ”The past forty years haven’t been so good, but things are looking up for the next forty,” said Dasha.

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Lilburn Chiropractic Treatment

September 13th, 2010

A Chiropractic Story With a Happy Ending

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A story appeared in the December 22, 2002 Newsday newspaper telling of an asthmatic woman named Vanessa. On September 15,2002, Vanessa had a severe asthma attack which caused her to stop breathing, suffer cardiac arrest, and slip into a coma. It was estimated that her heart had stopped for as much as 10 minutes before paramedics could restart it. At the hospital, her family was not given much hope. If she did pull through, they were told, the chances for severe brain damage were great.

Vanessa had been battling asthma all of her life. But this attack almost cost the young women her life. Vanessa’s coma was severe. Although her eyes were opened, nobody saw any indication that she could see. Doctors speculated that the part of her brain most likely to have been damaged by oxygen deprivation probably would render her blind. For her loved ones and family who stayed with her the coma was torturous and disturbing to observe. Vanessa clenched her fists. Her legs moved constantly, almost as if she were riding a bicycle.

Two of Vanessa’s relatives were patients of a chiropractor, Dr. Andy Forelli. They told Dr. Forelli of the heartbreaking story of Vanessa. Being moved, Dr. Forelli offered to drive to see Vanessa, being unaware that Vanessa was in a hospital two and a half hours away. The family accepted Dr. Forelli’s offer so he made the trip.

Dr. Forelli arrived to Vanessa’s room on the evening of Sept. 30.  There the family told him that the doctors had been talking that day about putting Vanessa in a nursing home. Vanessa’s mother Siobhan, recalls what happened next, “He put his hands on Vanessa’s face and spoke to her,” Siobhan said, “and she looked right at him and furrowed her brow, as if to say, ‘Who the hell are you?’ At that moment, we knew that she could see. He adjusted her neck. She winced, and then she smiled. He went around to the other side of the bed, and she furrowed her brow again, and he adjusted her neck from that side, and she smiled, closed her eyes, and went to sleep. He and I then spoke for maybe 15 minutes, and he got in the car and drove back to New York.”

“That night, I called every two hours, and the nurses said she was really quiet, almost still,” Siobhan said. “The next morning, October 1st, she was sleeping, no agitated movements, no clenched fists. At 11 o’clock, the nurse came into bathe her. The nurse said to me, ‘I think she’s trying to talk to us.’ She said to Vanessa, ‘Do you know who that is? That’s your Mom.’”

Chiropractic treatment proved to be Vanessa’s savior. Vanessa spent five more days in the hospital and 16 days in a Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Forelli saw her one more time, with again, remarkable results. Vanessa now has resumed her old life and is a regular patient of a local chiropractor closer to where she lives. Siobhan summed up the situation at the end of the story by saying, “Her whole health system has done a complete turnaround. She used to always carry a hand-held asthma medication called Preventil. She doesn’t even carry it any more.”

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