New finding/Research from FONAR

[Ghealth]

Hi All,

Has this been discussed yet:

http://www.fonar.com/news/100511.htm

Fonar is well known source. They were one of the early inventors of the MRI. Their hypothesis is this:

"The findings reveal that the cause of multiple sclerosis may be biomechanical and related to earlier trauma to the neck, which can result in obstruction of the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which is produced and stored in the central anatomic structures of the brain known as the ventricles."

Have many people here had trauma before being diagnosised with MS? I wonder if problems with flow of CSF could have been caused by poor development after birth. This seems to be related to CCSVI.

Any thoughts?

[jazzgirl]

Checked out their website. They did not invent the MRI. They are the "inventors of the UPRIGHT, MULTI-POSITIONAL MRI machine".

The article I read (by going to a hyperlink on FONAR's webpage) is basically about CCSVI and the role of FONAR's MRI machine in miraculously finding the cause of MS, and it not being autoimmune but "biomechanical". Basically, the article backs up Dr. Zamboni's claim (the inventor of the CCSVI theory) after using the machine on 8 definitely diagnosed MS patients. Eight people does not a definite answer make.

You're new to MSWorld. How about giving us some background on yourself? Do you, yourself, have MS, or are you a researcher?

[jazzgirl]

Sorry, Ghealth. I did look at your profile AFTER I posted and saw that you already saw a MS specialist (Dr. Jacobs down at Penn) and, after reading your MRI determined that you don't AT THIS TIME have MS.

Was any reason ever found for your on again/off again foot drop?

[hunterd]

i have to echo what jazz said about fonar. it seems like an endorsement for ccsvi.

[Ghealth]

Hi jazzgirl,

No worries. Thanks for your post. My foot drop happened once in 2008. It has not been on again off again. It has not come back (thank God). I had an EMG done in 2008. The results came back ok overall, but they think I have peroneal nerve damage (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/000791.htm) probably caused by running (I started running regularlly in 2008).

As you see from post, I had a false alarm by my internist thinking I had MS due to an MRI brain/cervical scan. Dr. Jacobs said no.

Raymond Damadian is credited with getting the first patent on MRI in the 70's. The flow patterns they show online are very interesting.