A call for a national trial of a controversial M-S treatment has gained support.
Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc says the province would be willing to join a national clinical trial of the so-called liberation procedure.
The treatment is based on an unproven theory that blocked veins in the neck or spinal cord are to blame for M-S, a chronic disease of the nervous system.
Bolduc says it’s a method that shows promise but notes there are no clinical studies to show how efficient it is.
But he’s willing to investigate it, along with the other provinces.
Manitoba Health Minister Theresa Oswald has called for a national trial of the procedure.
The M-S community is divided on the issue, with many saying more studies are needed before the treatment can be tested on humans.
CTV News http://ht.ly/2rH2E Updated: Wed Aug. 18 2010 The Canadian Press
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The Liberation Treatment is a potentially ground breaking discovering for the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis. It is thanks to the research of Dr Paolo Zamboni and his team that we now know about this treatment.
Dr Zamboni began his research into MS with the desire to cure his wife. Unhappy with the answers that he could find he decided to research what actually cause MS himself.
His initial research related to why the location of lesion in the brains of MS patients were all venocentric. He rationed that there must be a link between the veins and the occurrence of these lesions. And with further study he found that the brain damage was all counter to the flow of blood, meaning that it likely had something to do with the drainage of blood back to the heart.
Next he started to study both MS and normal patients to determine what differences he could find between them, hoping for an explanation. What he found was that in MS patients he could show that 100% of the cases he tested had abnormal veins, he called this condition CCSVI. Specifically that there were certain points where the veins coming from the brain along the next and upper chest were either restricting or blocking the flow of blood. His research proved that in all cases he found at least two abnormalities in the veins.
The next step he took was to attempt to treat these abnormalities, hoping that by doing so he would be able to cure the disease. By all current accounts of this still on going study the results have been very positive.
Although the number of people who have received the treatment are still few, those that have are living with reduced fatigue, fewer or no relapses and their MS symptoms are slowing being alleviated.
Since there has not been enough studies to prove it, we cannot say that this is a cure, but we sure hope it is. _______________________________________________________
Further reading and viewing: (the links below are also the sources for this post)
The Liberation Treatment http://liberation-treatment.com/
Fondazione HILARESCERE http://www.fondazionehilarescere.org/eng/index.html
You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/paolozamboni
Liberation Treatment CCSVI http://liberationtreatmentccsvi.com/
