how can i explain these abrupt changes.? we can all guess cant we. perhaps myelin transmission needs certain amount of blood flow, oxygen pressure reduction, cleansing for improved function. Your guess is as good as mine at this point. Like i keep saying we are just beginning an age of discovery. so much to learn, it will take the rest of my useful career, and i am thankful for that.
clearly such improvements in the moment, sometimes even before the procedure is completed will lead to doubts, especially by those who don't want to have been this wrong.

My money is on the improved tension and reduction in pressure in the venous return stimulating the cerebrospinal fluid flow. I.B.T addresses this using posture alone to change the pressure and increase the tension on the blood inside the veins, the evidence being the dramatic improvements in chronic venous insufficiency, oedema and varicose veins. Before and after Photographs available for evidence.

IBT has been shown right here in this forum to stimulate significant recovery in RR, PP and SP ms. Yet it is continually ignored? These results are very real and need to
To be taken into account.

IBT should be the very first intervention for all people with ms. And it is not just about how blood circulates, it addresses all circulation including blood flow, the cerebrospinal fluid circulation, lymph circulation and the circulation in the skin.

This simple postural therapy has also worked with spinal cord injury and Parkinsons's disease, neither of which are identified as associated with CCSVI.

Yet habitual unscientific adherence to flat bed rest which has been shown to be harmful in the literature time and time again that even in just a few hours of flat bed rest the body begins to shut down and the longer we remain flat the more damage to our body we do and this has been known and reported by doctors over the decades, while hospitals continue to use a horizontal model for recovery?

Insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results. This also applies to the insanity of sleeping flat and expecting to wake up to health improvements.

Sleeping flat for 24 hours has been shown to cause considerable problems for circulation. Maybe the cumulative effect of retiring to a flat bed each night is sufficient to cause neurological degeneration in people who are more susceptible to it's harmful effects?

Long before vascular stent and balloon surgery became an option, people with ms were finding remarkable improvements using Inclined Bed Therapy.

When I try to speak about it here, people but in and say on behalf of everyone reading this thread that we don’t want to hear it. Well I am not going to be silenced as long as there are people who need to learn about this safe and effective alternative to surgery.

In the unlikely event that IBT does not begin to work over 4 months then and only then should anyone consider a surgical approach and let’s face it there are many people on waiting lists who could at least put postural therapy to the test.
http://www.andrewkfletcher.com/index.php?option=com_agora&task=topic&id=69&Itemid=30

Dr Claude Francheschi advocates postural therapy as an answer to CCSVI and he now advises ms patients to sleep on an inclined bed.

The following paper is translated using Google translater which you might find interesting.

Venous insufficiency and splitting dynamics of hydrostatic pressure column

Sang Thrombose Vaisseaux. Volume 13, Number 5, 307-10, May 2001, Lexicon

Summary
Author (s): Claude Franceschi, cardiovascular center, St. Joseph Hospital, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75674 Paris Cedex 14 ..
Abstract: A better understanding of the pathophysiology of hemodynamic venous system is necessary not only for diagnosis but also to improving the treatment of venous insufficiency. The clinical and laboratory manifestations of venous insufficiency is the consequence of a hemodynamic disorder. This disorder can be defined as the inability of the system to ensure a unidirectional flow cardiopète venous flow and pressure responsive tissue drainage, temperature control and filling of the heart regardless of the conditions of posture and muscle activity. Given that symptoms are reduced and become worse clinostatism orthostasis, it is obvious that the conditions of posture and therefore the hydrostatic pressure determines the onset of symptoms such as regression of the disease. All this according to the laws of gravity that the hydrostatic pressure is almost zero and maximum clinostatism orthostasis. The venous pressure at the ankle also varies in supine and standing motionless in healthy subjects as venous insufficiency in the subject. But walking, it decreases much less in venous insufficiency than in healthy subjects. This shows that there is a way of controlling the hydrostatic pressure at idle but active rest while walking and lower efficacy in venous insufficiency than in healthy subjects. This phenomenon may be related to the action of the pump-valvulo muscle would split the column of hydrostatic pressure in the lower limb muscle activity. The most common hemodynamic disturbance responsible for venous insufficiency, is thus the result of a lack of what we call the dynamic fractionation column of hydrostatic pressure (FDPH).
http://www.john-libbey-eurotext.fr/fr/revues/medecine/stv/e-docs/00/03/D2/C8/article.phtml
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Questions for Dr Sclafani about Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency

Question for Dr Sclafani

Question regarding this dye that is used in the veins. Do you know if the molecular density or the chemicals and fluid used is identical to the blood density? Is it administered with saline solution?

I ask because it is entirely possible that the introduction of said fluids can affect the flow of blood in relation to posture should the density be either significantly higher or significantly lower than the blood in the veins where it is introduced.

I never did get any comments regarding this simple experiment showing how dissolved substances can change the pressures inside soft walled tubes?
http://www.youtube.com/user/InclinedTherapy#p/u/2/zNJHChtHklg

One could presume that too much salt is added at the top of this experiment, designed to show how a downward flow assisted by gravity has a direct influence on the return flow pressures and causes the wall on the return flow (representing the venous return) to be clearly drawn in.
Before dismissing this out of hand, let us remember we are not dealing with tubes anywhere near as tough as this silicon tubing with it's 1mm wall. In fact the silicon tube more closely resembles the comparatively robust structures of the arteries.

With this taken into account, the veins in the body would require a comparatively minuscule amount of salt to induce the same narrowing shown on the video, when we alter our posture and make use of gravity acting on density changes in the blood from respiration.

Is it a coincidence that reflux is observed during exhalation?

Do we have any evidence that altering posture alters the shape of veins, not only temporarily but permanently providing we adhere to avoiding the horizontal posture?

The term Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency or CCSVI has been borrowed as you well know from Chronic venous insufficiency in the legs. Varicose veins provide visual evidence of said conditions, both internally and externally.

You say you are a simple plumber of the arteries and veins and I understand your modesty with this respect and your reasoning for this statement.

Physics affords us the simple video model, which incidentally works also in a closed loop suspended vertically. ( I will do another video to show this)

People have argued that this vertically suspended tube experiment is too simple and therefore the shown forces cannot apply to the "simple plumbing" in the body?

I question their logic. One cannot have a different set of forces applying to the body's plumbing, it is after all a network of vertically suspended tubes.

Another argues we have a pump attached to our circulation. But the question as to why this impressive pressure and velocity in the outward flowing arteries is dampened down in the venous return. I.E. The veins do not normally inflate along with the arteries yet Starling's law of the heart using the familiar vessel connected to the heart to show a greater returned flow (venous return flow) uses the same simple tubular principles with a huge difference. We do not need to raise the vessel in the body to alter the return flow. The body does not have such a luxury, yet is capable of performing the same improved venous return flow by altering the arterial density with every breath exhaled.
Providing we are correctly aligned with our posture either on an angle or vertical, we can make use of these subtle positive arterial pressure changes and improvements in blood flow, not only in the predominantly downward flowing main arteries.

Here we have introduced not only an improved density flow in the arteries but we have made use of the molecular drag that affects every single fluid molecule in the body by causing an additional momentum (improved circulation) in the veins, without Starling's experiment. Alter the density and we inevitably alter the circulation and this inevitably alters the shape of the veins.

What evidence do we have to show that veins can learn to become normal veins given sufficient relief time from the direct pressure changes applied to them where no gravity assistance is applied to the said density changes from exhaling (Horizontal bedrest) ?

As it happens we have some very good examples right here in this forum, provided by Alun as photographic evidence showing how avoiding sleeping flat over many months has assisted his veins to return to more normal looking veins without the need for surgical intervention.

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb31/Andrew_K_Fletcher/Varicose%20veins/vains-12th-june-2008-calf.jpg

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb31/Andrew_K_Fletcher/Varicose%20veins/top-calf-dec.jpg