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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Trendelenburg Position under review

(from Canadian journal of emergency medicine)
Prospective studies

In a 1967 prospective study, Taylor and Weil tested the effectiveness of the Trendelenburg position in 6 hypotensive patients in clinical shock and 5 normotensive controls.3 In 9 of the 11 of patients, Trendelenburg positioning was ineffective, causing reductions in systolic, diastolic and mean arterial pressures. These authors noted that, in the head-down position, the viscera weigh down the diaphragm and compromise lung volumes. They also suggested that patients were at higher risk of cerebral edema, retinal detachment and brachial nerve paralysis.3

In 1994, Sing and colleagues4 assessed the impact of the Trendelenburg position on oxygen transport in 8 hypovolemic postoperative patients and found that it was associated with higher mean arterial blood pressure but not with improved cardiac output. Therefore, despite increases in blood pressure and left ventricle filling, there do not appear to be changes in tissue oxygenation during body tilting.4,5

In 1985, Bivins and coworkers6 studied the effect of the Trendelenburg position on blood distribution, finding that only 1.8% (99% confidence interval, -1.3% to 4.7%) of the total blood volume was displaced centrally when normovolemic patients were placed in the head-down position. They concluded that the autotransfusion effect produced by Trendelenburg positioning was small and unlikely to have an important clinical effect.6

Sibbald and cohorts investigated the effect of the Trendelenburg position on systemic and pulmonary hemodynamics in 76 critically ill patients (61 normotensive and 15 hypotensive) with acute cardiac illness or sepsis.7 In the normotensive group there was no change in pre-load or mean arterial pressure, but cardiac output increased slightly. In hypotensive patients there was no increase in preload or mean arterial pressure, but cardiac output decreased, suggesting that Trendelenburg positioning may be detrimental. These authors, like others, concluded that there were no demonstrable beneficial hemodynamic effects in hypotensive patients.1,3,7



1. Martin JT. The Trendelenburg position: a review of current slants about head down tilt. AANA J 1995;63:29-36.
2. Ostrow CL. Use of the Trendelenburg position by critical care nurses: Trendelenburg survey. Am J Crit Care 1997;6:172-6.
3. Taylor J, Weil MH. Failure of the Trendelenburg position to improve circulation during clinical shock. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1967;124:1005-10.
4. Sing RF, O'Hara D, Sawyer MA, Marino PL. Trendelenburg position and oxygen transport in hypovolemic adults. Ann Emerg Med 1994;23:564-7.
5. Terai C, Anada H, Matsushima S, Shimizu S, Okada Y. Effects of mild Trendelenburg on central hemodynamics and internal jugular vein velocity, cross-sectional area, and flow. Am J Emerg Med 1995;13:255-8.
6. Bivins HG, Knopp R, dos Santos PA. Blood volume distribution in the Trendelenburg position. Ann Emerg Med 1985;14:641-3.
7. Sibbald WJ, Paterson NA, Holliday RL, Baskerville J. The Trendelenburg position: hemodynamic effects in hypotensive and normotensive patients. Crit Care Med 1979;7:218-24.

What's New in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery IBT tested in sports Medicine

What's New in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Gary M. Gartsman, MD1 and Samer S. Hasan, MD, PhD2
http://www.ejbjs.org/cgi/content/full/88/1/230
1 Texas Orthopedic Hospital, Fondren Orthopedic Group, 7401 South Main Street, Houston, TX 77030. E-mail address: gmg@fondren.com
2 Cincinnati Sportsmedicine and Orthopaedic Center, 12115 Sheraton Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45246

Massive and Irreparable Tears
Warner reported on suprascapular nerve dysfunction in association with massive rotator cuff tears. In that study, four of seven patients who had a chronic massive rotator cuff tear associated with substantial fatty muscle atrophy and an isolated suprascapular nerve injury on electromyography underwent either complete arthroscopic repair or partial arthroscopic repair of the posterior portion of the rotator cuff. Postoperative electromyography demonstrated recovery of suprascapular nerve function. The author proposed that suprascapular nerve injury results from traction on the nerve when the torn rotator cuff tendons retract and resolves following partial or complete rotator cuff repair. Mullett reported on the role of anterior deltoid re-education in patients with chronic massive irreparable rotator cuff tears. Seventeen patients with an age of seventy years or more who had a painful massive rotator cuff tear and resultant deficits in active shoulder elevation were instructed in the use of a home exercise program. The patients were instructed to perform deltoid muscle exercises in the supine position at least three times daily for six weeks and to gradually incline the head of the bed throughout the course of the exercise program. Ninety percent of the participants reported improved upper extremity function following six weeks of treatment.

hyperventilation and the Inclined Bed Therapy Method

If you control your breathing and deliberately slow it down, your heart rate will also slow down. anxiety, apprehension, worrying, fear etc can have a direct on heart rate.

The main circulation I.B.T. logic:

The theory behind Inclined bed therapy is that for every breath exhaled we release a tiny pulse of denser solutes back into the main arteries which gravity can act upon in favour of the circulation, which in turn affects the venous return and stroke volume in the heart. This will cause the heart to become more efficient at moving the blood around when we are on an inclined, and when walking. Standing still and sitting applies direct pressure to the vessels and surrounding muscle, ligaments and skin tissue and narrow the vessels so the heart backs up pressure ( a main cause of feinting)

Shallow Breathing
The same scenario also applies to rapid shallow breathing, we still release pulses of denser blood back into the main artery and after passing back through the heart these solutes are drawn down the artery but there are more of them, even though they are not as concentrated as when the lungs are fully inflated and deflated from slower deeper breathing. This serves to accelerate the heart and the respiration and I believe it is the main cause of asthma hyperventilation.

School Girl Asthma attack

While out walking the dogs, I came across 2 schoolgirls, one looking terrified and crying the other in hyperventilation having an asthma attack. She was in serious trouble. Right away, I said listen carefully, she nodded unable to talk and in distress. On breathing out count to 5 seconds before inhaling try to repeat this for each breath, which she did.

Within 2 minutes her breathing and presumably her heart rate had returned to normal, she became relaxed and the attack was ended. They both thanked me and with smiles wider than the grand canyon walked calmly as if nothing had happened.

Before reading the following article, apply the density changes released by exhaling to the explanations given in it.

Also take into account the action of breathing into a paper bag for hyperventilation. Here it would serve to eliminate the density changes in the lungs due to breathing the same volume of moist air in and out of the lungs so that no pulses of solutes will enter the main artery. Result: breathing would return to base line rapidly.

http://www.asthmacare.ie/hyperventilation-and-asthma.pdf

I can also hear my own heart beating while laying on an inclined and have experimented many times slowing down my breathing by releasing a longer slower exhale and counting to 5 seconds or more before inhaling. I can hear the changes in my own heart rate within 30 seconds.

Normally, while sleeping on an inclined bed the heart rate slows down and the respiration rate slows down significantly by 10-12 beats per minute and 4-5 breaths per minute, which is a huge difference to a person sleeping flat. The same changes took place in 2 sleeping dogs (who didn’t mind a stethoscope) on an incline.

While awake however, as previously stated, we can consciously and subconsciously alter our breathing and the angled bed will make use of the number of breaths we take either way. Even subtle changes in breathing can start a steady acceleration of the heart, which in turn inflates and deflates the lungs quicker in a vicious circle, but now you know how to intervene and reverse this.

So please experiment with this method of controlled respiration and do come back and let us know what you find.

You can also purchase a professional stethoscope from ebay as I did for a few dollars / pounds, so you can observe the changes more effectively.

Check out the new forum on http://www.inclinedbedtherapy.com

My Dream Last Night

My dreams are incredible.

Last night I was driving an old friends fast car Hilman Imp, that was race tuned, a car we used to pile in and wreak havoc hammering it around sharp bends with an 8 track stereo belting out Deep Purple, David Bowie, Erick Clapton and Led Zeplain. But the car was not mine, it belonged to another good friend Terry Richards. Are kids today any worse than we were?

I was belting up a hill which was familiar when a capri behind me was flashing me down and sounding the horn. When the driver got out, he come over to me and said; "Hey Andy long time no see how you doing? And how come your driving this? I thought you drove a merc? (Joey Round, known to some friends as Squary, but to me Joey) Me and Joey go right back to childhood, born in same rough old Longbank road in Oakham, Joey was a great bloke and always looked out for us younger kids.

I said to Joey, you are supposed to be dead? He said don't be daft, laughing in his usual way and we talked about his supposedly being dead. I even told him I had seen the death certificate. I then said the merc is back at home with an old Austin, Later we were in the pub with friends laughing with Joey and me saying he was dead, when clearly I was mistaken. I also met Jackie Nash, his wife who he divorced, also a very good friend and was telling her about Joey and how he was very much alive. The dream lasted for a very long time.

I was not thinking of him or Jackie or anyone in particular when I went to bed, or indeed had I thought about either of them for a long time.

During the dream, I even realised I had made a serious error on facebook Tividale Comprehensive School site adding RIP to his name and to many other damned good friends that died far too young, and needed to go back to the site and change it asap.
Jackie died of cancer a few years ago :(
Joey died of cancer in the throat a few years back :cry:

I have no reason why this dream was triggered but writing this and telling my wife about it is making my hairs stand on end, it was very lucid and beautiful and did not feel at all like a dream.

We can learn a lot from our dreams, but would need to find out how different brain activity is on Inclined Therapy. Alas, we would need the use of a sleep centre to determine what's happening in the brain activity at night compared to flat bedrest.

I believe that the brain needs good circulation of cerebrospinal fluid and bloodflow to organise and recall these memories. But this was much more than a memory recalled, it was truly astonishing and vivid.

I believe also, based on what happened to the girl with cerebral palsy in Kent, who walked at school for the very first time after around 8 months of Inclined Therapy and many more reports of memory improvements, that the brain uses the direction of gravity to improve circulation and restore supposedly irreversible damage.

CCSVI Procedure for Multiple Sclerosis Vs Inclined Therapy

What I think is based upon 16 years of research into Inclined Therapy and it's positive effects on people with multiple sclerosis with hundreds of people showing remarkable recoveries. Given sufficient time most of the symptoms you have mentioned as improvements can be achieved without any surgery! To add credence to this statement I urge you and others reading this to read through the Inclined Bed Therapy threads and try to find anyone who is not experiencing benefits from I.T. And should you find them, wait 4 weeks and read their later reports.

As to whether surgery has helped to accelerate these improvements we can only rely on the posts from people who have had the same surgery and not been using Inclined Therapy. These can be found in the CCSVI Tracking project. Study these reports and see if the same improvements have been achieved using angioplasty or stent procedures alone. Then weigh up the differences between those who are and those who are not using I.T combined with surgery. This is why I asked for an inclusion in the CCSVI Tracking thread to indicate whether or not I.T. is being used by the posters.

Given the results of the posture poll so far, it is difficult to understand how Neurological damage which is undoubtedly influenced, if not caused by posture can be restored when the posture that initiated it is not addressed. CCSVI and Surgery alone does not explain these non-surgery improvements seen in people on this forum who have tilted their beds and not received any surgical intervention.

Swollen twisted veins in the legs or varicose veins as we call them can be returned to normal looking veins by controlling posture alone. Surgery at best provides a temporary fix with varicose veins, because the surgery does not address what causes them to become varicose veins. More superficial veins will become varicose veins to take the diverted blood flow and it’s inherent high pressure. The swollen veins inside the neck and close to the spine are not disconnected from the same venous that supplies the legs, so there should be no doubt that these abnormal veins in the neck and next to the spine are undergoing the same reconditioning that the chronic venous insufficiency undergoes in the legs using I.T.

Zamboni has argued in an email to me that these veins cannot be restored using posture alone. If this is the case, then CCSVI cannot be the cause of ms! If this isn’t the case and these veins are becoming unrestricted due to avoiding a flat bed, and sleeping on an inclined bed, just like varicose veins have been shown to respond, then and only then can Zamboni’s theory be shown to play a roll in the onset of ms!

Another possibility is that everyone on this forum who is reporting positive results using Inclined Therapy 1. Is either involved in some major conspiracy to prove a layperson is correct about circulation and gravity 2. Placebo effect can be shown to stretch over 11 years of complete ms symptom relief with Terri Harrison. Zamboni argued that placebo couldn’t be entertained as an explanation for 4 months of symptom relief in a video relating to ccsvi procedure. Or 3. Inclined Therapy is bringing about these obvious improvements without surgery and if this is the case, then posture is identified as a definite causal effect and the big finger points at the way we all sleep and sit! CCSVI could indeed be the reason that some people sleeping flat develop multiple sclerosis and many people never develop neurological symptoms using a flat bed.

It would be simple to prove what is happening with regards to CCSVI by people asking for a repeat Doppler scan while laying at an angle, laying flat, sitting up and standing up. These are the parameters that should be tested immediately to determine what if anything is changing in the venous return.

We will have to be vigilant and wait to see if anyone who is about to have these tests will ask for a scan on an inclined platform or bed.

Is Bed Rest An Effective Treatment Modality for Pressure Ulcers?

The following paper requires a thorough read:


Is Bed Rest An Effective Treatment Modality for Pressure Ulcers?
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Look at the patient lying long in bed.
What a pathetic picture he makes.
The blood clotting in his veins,
the lime draining from his bones,
the scybola stacking up in his colon,
the flesh rotting from his seat,
the urine leaking from his distended bladder,
and the spirit evaporating from his soul.
— Dr. Richard Asher, British Medical Journal, 1947




Conclusion
Practitioners often express concern that medical and scientific studies are difficult to interpret for clinical use; however, in terms of the complications of bed rest, agreement between all existing sources is remarkable. Although illness severity may leave no choice except bed rest, the rest itself is rarely what is of benefit. Practically every organ and body system promptly and progressively deteriorates when it is inactive (see Table 4).2
In this time of focusing on best practices and patient outcomes, examining the practice of bed rest is appropriate. If effort were directed at conducting a randomized control trial to reevaluate the practice of bed rest, assuming that bed rest could speed the healing of pressure sores, the complications of this treatment are so well documented that this practice cannot be considered “safe.”
Alternatives to bed rest include optimizing the nutritional status of the client and managing pressure and shear throughout the client’s daily activities. Managing pressure and shearing forces outside of the bed may be one way to improve client outcomes and quality of life. - OWM
http://www.o-wm.com/article/3194

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

Report



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.

Experts: Sitting too much could be deadly - Boston.com

Experts: Sitting too much could be deadly - Boston.com

It's about time "the experts caught up" I have been researching this for 16 years and proven that posture is very important for maintaining circulation! Without circulation we are dust.

My research involves density changes in fluids from exhaling and constant water vapour loss from the skin and eyes.

Titlting the bed allows gravity to influence the density changes in the blood and in doing so assists the circulation.

Inclined therapy is where a person raises the head of the bed by 6 inches so the whole bed tilts from head to toe.

Poor Postural Advice for people with ms.

Andrew K Fletcher http://www.mstrust.org.uk/downloads/tips.pdf

Poor Postural Advice for people with ms.

Tips & Advice...

• Try to ensure that you get enough sleep - take naps during

the day if necessary. Give yourself permission to rest and put

your feet up whenever possible

• When you feel tired or worn out, stop what you are doing

and have a... rest before you start again - pace yourself

• Don't stand when you can sit down, and don't sit down

when you can lie down

• Be aware of your physical limitations and listen to your body

when it tells you to stop

• You might find that relaxation tapes and gentle music help

you to wind down

• If you know that you have a big event coming up that might

tire you out, make sure that you prepare for it, by getting as

much rest as possible beforehand


Flat bed rest advocated by an ms charity as the panacea for multiple
sclerosis. Yet proven to be a powerful degenerative influence on
healthy people, let alone some one with a neurological condition. There
are a huge amount of publications identifying flat bed rest as anything
but a safe and healthy sanctuary?


How many people with ms have read this harmful information and followed the advice only to find they have deteriorated rapidly?

People need to wake up to Inclined Therapy!

Inclinedtherapy I.T. New Group on Facebook

A new group has been set up to discuss the merits of sleeping Inclined by raising the head of the bed six inches or 15 cm’s. Now called Inclined Therapy or I.T.

16 years of research have provided us with concrete evidence that the human body benefits from avoiding flat bed rest! Come and check us out.
Andrew K Fletcher
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=245324668896

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

Flat Bed Rest The truth is out there!

Someone else has done a search to compare bedrest publications and found the same damning evidence that I did all those years ago.

I suggest you download the pdf and read the whole paper and if you are still unconvinced about the validity of Inclined Therapy, I suggest you conduct your own search of the published papers.





Bed rest: a potentially harmful treatment needing more careful
evaluation
Chris Allen, Paul Glasziou, Chris Del Mar

Ideas about bed rest seem so entrenched that medical
practice has been slow to change—even when faced with
evidence of ineffectiveness. For example, a study of
protocols used after spinal puncture in 1998 found that
more than 80% of neurological units in the UK still
insist on bed rest" despite evidence from 17 years earlier
that bed rest has no value." There are also reports that
bed rest is still being over-prescribed after myocardial
infarction and cardiac catheterisation, and for acute low
back pain."-"
Bed rest after myocardial infarction was prescribed on
the basis of theoretical evidence of the supposed
workload put on the heart, and circumstantial evidence
on the appearance of old and new infarcts."" The value
of bed rest was questioned in 1938 because during the
2 months of forced bed rest more patients died of
pulmonary infarction, uraemia, and pneumonia than of
cardiac complications." Despite recommendations in
1944 for the period of bed rest to be cut to 2 weeks,'"
6 years later standard clinical practice still prescribed
4 weeks or more of bed rest.'' Since that time; largescale
clinical trials have shown that bed rest is
unnecessary,'"''^'''' and one showed that there is
significant danger associated with hospital bed rest after
myocardial infarction.™ In current clinical practice" only
12 h of bed rest is prescibed, with ambuiation in the
ward by day 3.
Rest is often imposed by symptoms (mainly weakness)
rather than the physician, and in that case there is little
choice. We have to distinguish the use of bed rest in the
management of those symptoms (palliation) from its use
to speed recovery (prescribed treatment). Perhaps the
patient is the best judge of the amount of rest required.
Advice given in 1944 seems curiously apt today, "The
physician must always consider complete bed rest as a
highly unphysiologic and definitely hazardous form of
therapy, to be ordered only for specific indications and
discontinued as early as possible".* The indications for
which bed rest should be prescribed, and for how long,
are yet to be defined.
Contributors
Chris Allen did the searches, assembled and analysed the tables, and
wrote the first draft. Paul Glasziou was responsible for the idea and
extracted and analysed the data for the tables. Chris Del Mar concieved
the idea and wrote subsequent drafts.

Effect of head up tilt on cerebral circulation.

Acta Astronaut. 1994 Jul;33:69-76.
Effect of head up tilt on cerebral circulation.

Yoshimoto S, Ueno T, Mayanagi Y, Sekiguchi C, Yumikura S, Miyamoto A, Yajima K.

Dept. of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Police Hospital, Japan.

This study was performed to study the effect of the head up tilt (HUT) on cerebral circulation across the time course (60 degrees HUT for 15 minutes) and across the different angles of HUT (15, 30, 45, 60 degrees HUT for 15 minutes). Cerebral circulation was continuously monitored during 15 minutes of HUT by the carotid Doppler flow meter, the transcranial Doppler flow meter, and the near infra-red spectrophotometer. The results show that the cerebral blood flow decreased during HUT and that the cerebral blood volume decreased initially and then gradually increased. And the magnitude of the effect may have the relationship with the angles of the HUT.

PMID: 11539540 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Why raise the bed six inches at the head end for Inclined Therapy?

An experiment was performed to determine the optimum angle for circulation.

Using a closed water filled loop of tubing with coloured salt solution added at the pillow end and the loop stretched down the bed, the bed was elevated.

The lower elevations in the range of 4-4.5 inches resulted in the salt flowing down one side and the clean water flowing back up the same side. 2 directional flow in one tube while fascinating to watch was not the desired effect.

After raising the bed to 5 inches the downward flow was in the salt added side representing the arteries and the return flow was in the opposite salt-free side representing the venous return or indeed the return flow of the cerebrospinal fluid system or the return flow of the lymphatic system.

this return flow and return is under tension and was observed using soft walled silicon tubing showing clearly how the solutes affect the pressure of the water molecules.

The downward flowing side clearly bulged outwards under the positive pressure induced by gravity, while the return flow water only side was pulled in, indicating that the molecules were placed under tension by the gravity affect on the salt dissolved in water.

Over time this has been born out by many people sleeping inclined, while a 4 inch incline is better than sleeping flat, a 6 inch / 15 cm raise producing a five degree to the horizontal on a 75 inch long bed.

Fascinating history of the bed reveals that the oldest beds know from the ancient Egyptians some 4 thousand years ago were raised by exactly 6 inches at the head end according to a curator of a museum in Boston. USA.

Question is how did they know? Did they observe animals sleeping on an incline and imitated them and then find the benefits? We will never know but it is intriguing.

A Brief explanation of Inclined Therapy

Thanks for experimenting with your bed and deciding to take this further.
This discovery is about density changes in the body fluids from evaporation at the surface of the lungs, sinuses, mouth, throat, nasal cavities skin, eyes and hair follicles.

Any density change at one pint will cause the denser fluids to migrate through the circulation towards the point of exit. The point of exit is predominantly in the urine. To test this a hydrometer was used to test the density / specific gravity of urine produced by my wife (bless her) and me sleeping head down 5 degrees, horizontal, and head up 5 degrees, testing every time we produced urine.

What we found confirmed the theory spectacularly. Flat bed rest lowered the density of urine compared to inclined or head up bed rest, which markedly increased the urine density over normal daily activity. But sleeping head down was stunning. The results with the hydrometer showed that sleeping at a five degree to the horizontal head down angle our urine density over several nights fell to near water density. In other words the dissolved salts, metals, and sugars that normally were excreted in the urine were remaining in the body.

We both developed diarrhoea sleeping upside down or inverted, indicating that our digestive systems were not functioning properly either, the whole experience of inverting for several days was uncomfortable, resulted in headaches, a sense of pressure and a most uncomfortable night, but in the interest of science it needed to be conducted so we did it.

Dissolved solutes in the arteries not the veins move from source of concentration for example the lungs to a sink in this case the kidneys, which filter the solutes from the blood before it enters the return flow in the veins. The denser filtered fluid is then passed into the bladder and excreted in the urine.

The less dense blood can now be pulled back towards the heart from the dragging of solutes or blood molecules that flow down. (for every action there must be an equal and opposing reaction) We cannot say that blood flows down the body towards the feet. This is not possible without it causing the return flow!

Providing the return flow is always less dense than the downward flow the solutes move in the direction of gravity and assist circulation and in doing so ease the burden on the heart. (The opposite to what will be read in the literature).

The literature also recommends raising the legs to address oedema or fluid retention and / or varicose veins.

Clearly from the photographic evidence provided we can see that varicose veins are returned to normal looking veins sleeping on an inclined bed, which fits precisely with the experiment models shown on Youtube and with this new understanding of circulation, yet it contradicts the advice of the physiology literature leaving it in dire need of revision.

Several people during the early pilot studies reported hard lumps in their legs (thrombosis) vanishing without trace. This was verified when an elderly lady who was known to us showed the lump in her leg and on examination after several months the lump was gone..

Again proving that the circulation had increased and the blockage must have been resolved by the improvements in circulation.

Many people reported an increase in warmth compared to sleeping flat, warmer hands and feet whereas a person would normally expect cold feet for an hour or more they found themselves sleeping with their feet outside of the bedding to keep them cooler.

This was also confirmed when helping people with spinal cord injuries, something that has occupied me for several years having met with opposition to conducting a study for people with ms by people saying ms can go into remission which of course is true but for over 11 years in the case of Terri Harrison?

A lot of years have passed since I began this journey of discovery. No more guesswork here!

For those that would like to see this proven or disproved please set up your controlled studies (for which I have been fighting to have conducted for 16 years) as you will not find your results any different to the results that are unfolding and are about to unfold on this forum.

I still believe the circulation in the nervous system is also operating the same gravity dependent flow and return system and this is why people with neurological conditions have found their condition greatly improves by avoiding a flat bed.

Andrew K Fletcher

Inclined Therapy is again helping people with MS.

Dear Foreverspring

Thank you for your updates and for helping others to understand how tilting your bed has helped you.

Hopefully more people will join us and engage us with their own updates and your reports should stir up some thoughts about there being more to this simple therapy than one might think.

Really looking forward to seeing how many more people come back and report changes over the coming months.

Maybe a news team might eventually pick up on what is happening here and take an interest. This certainly would stir up a hornets nest with the medical profession and the charities.

Perhaps it might also lead on to the illusive controlled study that doctors are hiding behind as an excuse not to inform their patients about this simple common sense postural therapy approach.

On the Youtube video, the then senior director of the MSRC said "if it works let's get everyone trying it".

Well it is obviously working and why not because I.T. worked before he said it, and he knew it worked! and so did the director before him! And so did Peter Cardy at the MS Society!

It has taken us a few months to show how effective this therapy is for people with ms and the pilot study reports are confirmed by what is happening to people on this forum using I.T.

So let's do what the MSRC said they would and show people with MS that there is an alternative to drugs that is free, non-invasive and can be conducted in the comfort of our homes.

I have had tears in my eyes today thinking about the people this therapy has helped. Who cares whether hidden agendas from people paid to provide help matter more than helping people to get more out of life when you get results like yours?

So many people have said to me it's a miracle but miracles are one off's this is fully repeatable and to prove it here we are again after all these years providing anecdotal evidence for all to see and because it truly is repeatable do these results really qualify as being anecdotal? Do we really need approval from highly over paid non-contributing obstacles?

Or should we soldier on regardless and shame them into conducting their own studies if only to try to disprove that, which cannot be disproved?

Andrew K Fletcher

Inclined Bed Therapy MS reverting back to flat.

Erika reverts back to sleeping flat for one week after sleeping inclined and following stent surgery as part of the above Liberation Treatment.



http://www.thisisms.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=76144#76144

Read what she has to say.


Erika was also featured on a video during her stent procedure.

More and more people are warming to Inclined bed Therapy, literally as the circulation improves feet and hands warm up more rapidly and body temperature remains stable throughout the night.

IMPORTANT INFLUENZA INFORMATION

IMPORTANT INFLUENZA INFORMATION

My wife and I tilted our bed at the end of 1994, raising it by 6 inches at the head end, 7 inches on a US bed, arriving at the angle by observing circulation improvements at the given angle. Since that day we have remained sleeping on an angle rather than sleeping flat!

My wife and I contracted influenza last year for the first time since 1994, which was a strain that affected all of our friends and family.

This was the first influenza virus that had completely infected us since 1994, although we have had some very mild symptoms lasting one day prior to this, indicating that our immune system is strong enough to fight viral infections. Coughs and colds also were resolved as fast as they arrived when al of our friends and family exhibited the symptoms for days and even weeks, we didn't!

The ancient Egyptians from 4000 years ago slept with their beds tilted by the same angle of five degrees to the horizontal, confirmed by a curator at a Boston Museum who measured their Egyptian bed.

This simple intervention is now known as "inclined bed therapy" or I.B.T. and more recently "inclined therapy" I.T. and has been shown to improve the help of many people with serious irreversible medical conditions over 16 years.

Inclined therapy is also practiced by the medical profession for respiratory infections and respiratory injury, assisting the lungs to function more effectively. Something worth considering when morbidity from the recent swine flu pandemic is caused by secondary respiratory infection leading to multiple organ failure rather than succumbing to the virus directly.

Your first line of defence against becoming infected appears to me at least to be a logical step.

Get your bed elevated at the head end as a preventative measure and use it in case of infection as a powerful FREE non-invasive boost for the immune system.

You may also be pleasantly surprised to find that I.T. assists sleeping, maintains the body temperature evenly, lowers heart and respiration rate and increases the oxygen levels in the blood and so much more!

While a flat bed causes the body temperature to drop by 2 degrees around 4 am, which incidentally is the time that most people die in their beds!

During the Sweating Sickness which killed millions of healthy people in the Tudor Period, throughout Europe. Two guards were placed at the side of an affected persons bed to prevent them from sleeping or laying down flat. This was their only course of intervention for this deadly pandemic that killed an affected person during the same night they contracted the mysterious disease.
These unfortunate people did not have knowledge of bacterium and secondary infections and antibiotics had not been discovered. Yet common sense prevailed.

Following this beds were made shorter and the majority of people slept on a bed measuring 4 feet six inches and spent each night sleeping with their upper body raised in the sitting position.

The fact that the very young were immune indicated a virus rather than a bacterium infection was present and that the children and the older people had antibodies from prior exposure. This is interesting and poses the question, could these children have been exposed to the virus through their parents or even during pregnancy?

Sweating Sickness Symptoms
The symptoms as described by Caius and others were as follows. The disease began very suddenly with a sense of apprehension, followed by cold shivers (sometimes very violent), giddiness, headache and severe pains in the neck, shoulders and limbs, with great exhaustion. After the cold stage, which might last from half-an-hour to three hours, followed the hot and sweating stage. The characteristic sweat broke out suddenly without any obvious cause. Accompanying the sweat, or after that was poured out, was a sense of heat, delirium, headache, rapid pulse, and intense thirst. Palpitations and pain in the heart were frequent symptoms. No skin eruptions were noted by observers including Caius. In the final stages, there was either general exhaustion and collapse, or an irresistible tendency to sleep, which was thought to be fatal if the patient were permitted to give way to it. One attack did not offer immunity, and some people suffered several bouts before succumbing.


A valuable lesson was learned!

But today this lesson gleaned from the tragic deaths of many millions has been forgotten?

Andrew K Fletcher


For more information: google "inclined bed therapy"

Multiple Sclerosis Dropped Foot and a Dehumidifier

Pauline Phelps, a lady with ms who has been helped by sleeping on an inclined bed, found that some mornings her dropped foot would be a problem. Dropped foot happens when the nervous system is compromised between the foot and the brain, in ms it is thought to be caused by plaques in the myelin sheath around the nerves. Yet Pauline began to record the humidity using a simple meter provided by yours truly. Having done so higher humidity appeared to be indicative so a dehumidifier was introduced into her bedroom during the night and additional water was drank to replace the additional lost fluids from the respiratory tract and skin. In the mornings when the dehumidifier was used during the night her dropped foot problem was not present, yet during high humidity weather when the dehumidifier was not used or had switched off when full her dropped foot problem became apparent again.

Pauline’s experiments with the dehumidifier proved beyond any doubt that humidity plays a very important part in ms. And because Pauline was asleep when the experiment was performed we can eliminate placebo as a cause of her improvements or demise.