But why not, Jen? Where is the evidence that a subjective response to traction predicts useful surgery? We need to be talking science - testing...
Where did you get this from Jen? It sounds like complete nonsense to me. I suspect it has something to do with Chiari Malformation which is of no...
Did you read my analysis of this in response to debored13? Did you not see that they have measured the wrong thing?
Please do delve, and in particular just look at the three pictures you posted and I commented on. I think you can see that they are measuring the...
We seem to have been going that route for a while with invisible documents from Dr Henderson etc. The main argument for CCI surgery seems to be...
That is conceivable but in practice about 80% of people with clinical RA have RF. The negative ones have a limited disease without extra-articular...
I think it would be interesting to know why the 2013 'consensus' document has apparently disappeared from the internet. In more recent PubMed...
Which bits of scientific evidence would you like addressed, @Sarah94? I have been 'replying to multiple points' in this way for months - maybe a...
That's right. The CXA is mentioned with slight variation in terminology back for about thirty years. But over that time there appear to be about...
From Dr Bolognese: Then you do manual cervical traction, with your hands, you pull the head of the patient (in a seated position) towards the...
The paper debored13 posted indicates what they think happens. Traction is intended to improve vertical instability of a 'functional' sort - i.e...
You don't actually need to do any modelling fo r ti to be obvious that a high CXA angle would be associated with stretching of brainstem - it is...
None of which test any hypothesis about the relevance of CCI to ME/CFS patients or indeed the relevance of measurements to the value of CCI...
And as far as we know he has no evidence for that claim. How would he have got evidence for the claim? Please remember that doctors often think...
Sorry, @Sarah94, but I have repeatedly pointed out in detail why there is no science here. Science is not just hypothesis and data. It is the...
The relevance to the ME community is that hidden away in the sea of meaningless pseudo-research in biomedicine it seems there are still islands of...
Perhaps it should be: The unifying diagnostic construct of bodily distress syndrome (BDS) was confirmed as being the way doctors who hold to this...
If the situation is anything like UK the thing to do is to find out who is the most respected general neurologist at the university hospital and...
It also raises the issue that surgeons may be operating on the basis of 'CCI' indications that form part of a syndrome they have recently invented...
I would not seek out a 'Chiari specialist'. Chiari is an area that has been taken up by opportunist medical professionals for a long time. I would...
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