Facebook | CCSVI in Multiple Sclerosis: News from Dr. Zamboni- CCSVI lesions classified as congenital

Facebook | CCSVI in Multiple Sclerosis: News from Dr. Zamboni - CCSVI lesions classified as congenital

Common sense always prevails.

Committee of experts from 47 countries and chaired by prof. Byung Lee B, Georgetown officially clasified CCSVI as congenital deformities, and prior venous lesions in MS.

http://phleb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/reprint/22/6/249.pdf

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But what's all the excitement about something everyone knew. It was obvious that CCSVI was present before or at the time of ms. No one can deny this.

But what causes the CCSVI? I would imagine it is not present from birth, so what has caused this to develop?

What alters the pressure inside those veins to cause them to twist and strangulate?

Answer based on those cases we see in thisisms who have adopted the Inclined Therapy method must be posture related!

How else can these people be recovering function and sensitivity without surgery?

More to the point, it certainly looks like that old favourite of humans, sleeping flat is suspected to be the main contributing factor for both ccsvi and ms.

Remember, this is the third study we are seeing identical patterns of recovery in.

And then those varicose veins recovering again without surgery using I.T. paints a glorious picture of how sleeping flat must have been the main contributing factor that initiated their development and maintained their progress. Again no surgery required!


So if this can happen in Varicose Veins, Chronic Venous Insufficiency and lead to recovery from multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury and "cerebral palsy in a child in Kent" it must be having an observable affect on CCSVI if CCSVI is contributing to ms. If CCSVI is not affected by I.T. then there is obviously another underlying cause.


And I suspect that the liquid crystal properties of myelin might have something to say about this.

Lesions are lesions. M.S. = Multiple scars in the nervous system and / or brain. Those scars have not gone away because someone has opened up the plumbing and placed an insert inside.

The circulation in the arteries and veins is separate from the nervous system. The heart does not affect the circulation in the nervous system, so this plumbing job can address lethargy and blood flow related problems, assisting people to become more active, which will inevitably lead to better posture for longer periods. Perhaps it is activity that is helping ms symptoms rather than the plumbing job?

But at least CCSVI now has an official stamp, it's a start.

Inclined Therapy or Sleeping in Sitting position

Are we Inclined To Sit Or Not To Sit?

Sleeping with the upper half raised is pretty much useless and may cause pressure sores.

Your weight when sleeping like this is compressing your spinal column.
It is also compressing the flesh and skin on your buttocks for many hours and this may eventually lead to the development of a pressure sore.

Your circulation is only assisted partially, but compromised because the same compression of the flesh in your buttocks together with the inevitable build up of venous and arterial pressure due to the veins and arteries affected by this compression will be counter productive.

Then there is the problem with stretched tendons and ligaments, bent forward, there is inevitably some tension applied to the muscles, tendons and ligaments. Over time this can have a detrimental affect

Last but not least are the joints in the hips and in the spine, If you are sleeping on your back, this means you are bent forward for 8 hours a day. Elderly people walking bent over, unable to straighten up, was that the position they slept in?
Sleeping on your side with the upper half raised will adversely affect the hip and spine joints, sleeping on your back will also adversely affect the spine. Sleeping on your tummy will result in someone calling an ambulance..

Inclined Therapy I.T.

Sleeping on an inclined bed however, does quite the opposite.

Immediately the spine is placed under gentle traction, (the opposite to the folded posture). The weight is distributed evenly so you don't feel like a sack of potatoes when you lay down, or the bed somehow feels softer than before.

Your heart rate decreases by 10-12 beats per minute on an inclined bed while you sleep, yet manages to pump more blood around the body, which in turn causes more friction as the blood flows around faster, which in turn generates more heat and you feel warmer in bed, while the cooling system also benefits so we are able to maintain our body temperature better as more water evaporates due to the increased / maintained temperature. Sleeping flat for instance causes a 2 degree drop in body temperature around the time that most people die in bed, yet sleeping inclined does not.

Your respiration rate decreases by 4-5 breaths per minute, which is a lot, yet oxygenation improves because the lungs are inflating more and deflating more which takes a little longer so although there are less breaths per minute a greater volume of air is moved in and out, which again increases the evaporation and this in turn alters the density of the surfactant in the respiratory tract which in turn alters the density of the surfactant that is returned back into the blood and gently assists the circulation as it flows through the arteries providing we are correctly aligned / Inclined.

But we don't just have blood circulating, we have lymph and cerebrospinal fluid, we have a flow of fluids through the tissue and skin, through the bones, and even a flow through the myelin wrapped around the nervous system. The heart is not responsible for these other circulations so cannot be attributed to them. Yet we know posture and respiration plays an important roll from the literature. So could all of these independent circulations require density changes from evaporation and correct alignment with gravity to gently assist them to make the repairs required to overcome a whole range of illnesses?

I believe this to be true and indeed have already proven it many times before.

What we are already seeing unfolding here on this forum is impressive and If Foreversprings and others posts are anything to go by we are in for a very exciting 2010.

I do not believe in the majority of cases surgery is required!

Varicose veins were believed once to require surgery, yet the surgery frequently fails requiring more expensive surgery, which raises the question why?

So many people have noticed their veins no longer ache or bulge using I.T. So rather than approaching this problem by patching up the damage, why not engage the possibility that given sufficient time using I.T. we may not require surgery and those that do not respond will probably require surgery?

Interesting times are afoot.

Happy New Year

Andrew K Fletcher

Review Article Anomalous venous blood flow and iron deposition in multiple sclerosis

Ajay Vikram Singh1 and Paolo Zamboni2

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is primarily an autoimmune disorder of unknown origin. This review focuses iron overload and oxidative stress as surrounding cause that leads to immunomodulation in chronic MS. Iron overload has been demonstrated in MS lesions, as a feature common with other neurodegenerative disorders. However, the recent description of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) associated to MS, with significant anomalies in cerebral venous outflow hemodynamics, permit to propose a parallel with chronic venous disorders (CVDs) in the mechanism of iron deposition. Abnormal cerebral venous reflux is peculiar to MS, and was not
found in a miscellaneous of patients affected by other neurodegenerative disorders characterized by iron stores, such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Several recently published studies support the hypothesis that MS progresses along the venous vasculature. The
peculiarity of CCSVI-related cerebral venous blood flow disturbances, together with the histology of the perivenous spaces and recent findings from advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques, support the hypothesis that iron deposits in MS are a consequence of altered cerebral venous return and chronic insufficient venous drainage.

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (2009) 29, 1867–1878; doi:10.1038/jcbfm.2009.180; published online
2 September 2009

Varicose veins before and after 18 months of Inclined Therapy

Alun has provided us with more fantastic photographs showing the improvements he has recorded so far after 18 months of sleeping with his bed elevated at the head end by 6 inches or 15 cm's.

This therapy is called Inclined therapy and is helping people with neurological conditions also.





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Professor Zamboni in the News on Canadian Television

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091120/W5_liberation_091121/20091121?s_name=W5

Professor Zamboni on Canadian TV implementing the Stent Surgery for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency.

Be sure to check out Thisisms forum for more details and meet the people who are undergoing this surgery.