Re: CCSVI and CCVBP
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 1:50 pm
Torn discs in the spine and meniscuses in the knee don't heal. Herniated discs aren't inflammed their swollen. Swollen discs compress nerves and aggravate connective tissues and muscles that result in inflammation. Discs are fairly quiet. They are deep in the back beneath muscles the posterior ring of the spine and the spinal cord. Unlike the discs (meniscus) in the knees they don't rub on tissues that would make noise. On the othr hand the synovial joint capsules and connective tissues of the spine can be very noisy. The joint capsules highly susceptible to inflammation. Inflammation dries them out and makes them sticky. If their associated discs and connective tissue are degenerated they even more susceptible to inflammation.
I would have to agree with Dr. Schelling regarding the cervical cord lesions and the dentate ligament. Whiplash-type strains on the dentate ligaments are amplified by venous blood and CSF inversion flows in the cord.
The vast majority of degenerative conditions of the spine are due to mechanical causes not bacteria but bacteria tend to attack degenerating tissues. I have seen some really bad backs in farmers, factory and construction workers. Plumbers were the worst and if anyone should have chronic infections it's plumbers. Most of them had nothing to do with infections. Inflammatory arthritides are another story as are cardiovascular causes and diabetes. They have many causes.
I suspect that Lhermitte's is due to adverse mechanical tension in the dura and dentate ligaments such as local tethering by adhesions of connective tissue of the cord to bone spurs such as in Blossom's case.
Orthopedic surgeons are the experts on infections of the spine following injuries.
I can see a potential connection between infection and MS but it is difficult to see how infections are a common cause of disc bulges, disc degeneration, spondylosis, scoliosis, stenosis, craniocervical junction malformations, Chiari malformation, Dandy-Walker Syndromes, hydrocephalus etc., etc.. Most are due to mechanical causes.
I would have to agree with Dr. Schelling regarding the cervical cord lesions and the dentate ligament. Whiplash-type strains on the dentate ligaments are amplified by venous blood and CSF inversion flows in the cord.
The vast majority of degenerative conditions of the spine are due to mechanical causes not bacteria but bacteria tend to attack degenerating tissues. I have seen some really bad backs in farmers, factory and construction workers. Plumbers were the worst and if anyone should have chronic infections it's plumbers. Most of them had nothing to do with infections. Inflammatory arthritides are another story as are cardiovascular causes and diabetes. They have many causes.
I suspect that Lhermitte's is due to adverse mechanical tension in the dura and dentate ligaments such as local tethering by adhesions of connective tissue of the cord to bone spurs such as in Blossom's case.
Orthopedic surgeons are the experts on infections of the spine following injuries.
I can see a potential connection between infection and MS but it is difficult to see how infections are a common cause of disc bulges, disc degeneration, spondylosis, scoliosis, stenosis, craniocervical junction malformations, Chiari malformation, Dandy-Walker Syndromes, hydrocephalus etc., etc.. Most are due to mechanical causes.