Does impatience waiting for a medical research breakthrough encourage personal experiments with overlooked therapies, perhaps from alternative medicine. For instance, medical cannabis is already being used to treat spasticity and other symptoms.
Is this approach a waste of time? People often offer their home remedies for you to try in your fight with m.s. On the other hand, it is said to ignore 'miracle' cures proferred by health store clerks and their ilk If a proper treatment exists you will hear about it.
So much for the miracle cure. What this incident proved to me is just how many people are quietly dealing with this terrible affliction and how much pressure can be brought to bear on governments by this block of people. MS'ers organize around local chapters of their various MS Societies.
Is this approach a waste of time? People often offer their home remedies for you to try in your fight with m.s. On the other hand, it is said to ignore 'miracle' cures proferred by health store clerks and their ilk If a proper treatment exists you will hear about it.
And then along came the Italian, Dr. Zamboni with chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency. (CCSVI or CCVI). Italian researcher Paolo Zamboni in 2008 described compromised flow of blood in the veins draining the central nervous system as CCSVI. Zamboni hypothesized that it played a role in the cause or development of multiple sclerosis (MS). Zamboni also devised a procedure which was termed by the media as "liberation procedure" or "liberation therapy", involving angioplasty (or stenting) of certain veins in an attempt to improve blood flow.
Canadian doctors said wait and see. Pretty soon people were cashing out retirement accounts to raise money to go to far away venues to receive the treatment. Meantime, our government was pressured to evaluate the procedure and if it was indeed a cure.
Using Dr. Paolo Zamboni’s own “cookbook” of methods, equipment and even his direct instruction to technologists who went to Italy to learn from him, Canadian researchers could not replicate the Italian doctor’s stunning results. Indeed, they discovered that MS patients and healthy controls shared the same prevalence of vein constriction, suggesting it’s nothing more than dynamic, typical vein physiology.
The study came to the opposite conclusion of the Italian doctor, Paolo Zamboni, who coined the term chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) when he reported in 2009 that virtually all MS patients have the vein narrowing disorder.
The study came to the opposite conclusion of the Italian doctor, Paolo Zamboni, who coined the term chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) when he reported in 2009 that virtually all MS patients have the vein narrowing disorder.
So much for the miracle cure. What this incident proved to me is just how many people are quietly dealing with this terrible affliction and how much pressure can be brought to bear on governments by this block of people. MS'ers organize around local chapters of their various MS Societies.
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