CCSVI and CCVBP

[uprightdoc]

Hello NZer,
Unless I am misreading the post, it sounds to me as though Joan was the one with vertigo, not you. Anyway, the vestibulocochlear (acoustic) cranial nerve (CN #8) gets its blood supply from the labyrhinthine branches of the vertebral-basilar arteries. As most of you know by now, the vertebral-basilar arteries pass through the suboccipital tunnel of the upper cervical spine before entering the brain. They are susceptible to compression from UC misalignments.

In addition to susceptibility to decreased VB arterial flow, the 8th cranial nerve is subject to shear stresses from displacement of the brain within the cranial vault. I will be publishing a page on my website either today or tommorow on what I call encephalic ectopia. I will be discussing displacement of the brain within the cranial vault such as cerebellar tonsillar ectopia and Chiari malformations, which I will expand upon as the site grows.

[uprightdoc]

Thanks B,
I appreciate the compliment.

[NZer1]

We were worried about you Dr., good to see you online, everything ok?
I had guessed that you were busy, but we all got concerned.
Take care all,
Nigel

[uprightdoc]

Hello Nigel,
Thanks for asking. Everything is well. We have been busy all summer with the family party, a wedding and visitors. We have been having some beautiful weather and I am heading out for a walk with my wife.

[HappyPoet]

Hi Dr. Flanagan,

So relieved you're okay--you've always told us ahead of time when you'd be away from your thread for a while, so lots of us were becoming worried. You picked a gorgeous autumn weekend to enjoy--very happy for you!

[uprightdoc]

Thanks Poet.

For those of you who are interested the link below is to a page I just published on Chiari malformations and cerebellar tonsillar ectopia, which have been linked to MS.

http://www.upright-health.com/tonsillar-ectopia.html

[NZer1]

Great thought starter Dr.
The whole time I was reading this I was hearing a little voice saying to me, 'what is causing the brain to herniate'. In my humble opinion if there is fluid being compressed within the brain or cranial vault then the most 'fluid' material has to move. A herniation must surely be caused by friction of the fluid compression within the cranial vault.
In order for the meaty parts of the brain to change shape and be forced out of the nearest available passage of escape by fluids within the same space, whether that fluid be blood or CSF, must be the next area for technology to understand?
Upright MRI and an appropriate program?
Testing various positions and breath's etc and having an understanding of movement and the fluid dynamics?
Injuries may have been the lead into a whole new understanding of the fluid dynamics of both normal's and de-generatives like us Dr.
Have you some ideas for testing with the Upright MRI?
Regards and thanks,
Nigel

[NZer1]

And now that this is sinking in Dr. F. what else could cause Aknoid (sp) Cysts?
IMO these may be deposits of fluids 'expressed' by compression of brain matter.
The fluid dynamics of this puzzle are fascinating! The places that fluid is deposited would likely be 'away' from the compression, site so to say, a collection place where lower pressures allow for expansion and depositing. Like the examples you gave of Giraffes and whale and Bats, just that it about fluids that have no place to go when compressed by refluxing in the vascular system and the compression issues of brain matter and then the on-flow to compression of CSF when it is unable to travel its natural pathways due to alignment and malformations.
*The composition of the fluid in cysts would be worth analyzing for hints as to the process involved causing their deposition?
I'll keep thinking on this!
Nigel

[NZer1]

This reminds me of a comment from Dr. Trev Tucker on fluid movement, it went along the line of 'fluids are not intelligent, they follow the path of least resistance'.
To me that would mean that when you compress the brain by any of the causes we are beginning to see as related to our diseases, fluid will move, whereas brain 'material' which is connected in a cellular way will remain in position until the fluid is unable to compensate by exiting from the pressure increase within the cranial vault. At that point the inflamed brain material will find its path of least resistance, which may be after the initial pressure increase, therefore the next pressure increase from, for example reflux will exacerbate the inflamed region of the brain matter.
*This could be the cause of herniation and or cysts?
Tea time, regards
Nigel

[uprightdoc]

Hello Nzer,
Herniations can be caused by trauma but they can also be caused by changes in blood or CSF volume or pressure inside the cranial vault. Blood and CSF are non-compressible so if their volume of pressure go up they can diplace or compress the brain. Decreased CSF volume or pressure can also cause CTE. I suspect that certain cases of arachnoid cysts, empty sella and syrinxes etc. are due to standing waves and water hammers which I will cover in my next wordpress post.

[civickiller]

Dr. F,

i just had an mri done, heres a couple scans. if you could interpret them, im mostly concerned with the amount of lighted parts in my brain and spine. my last mri's i was told the lighted parts were active lesions. first look like a dip at the top, second one my brain looks its missing on the top front side.





if you want to see my xray, its near the bottom

http://www.thisisms.com/forum/chronic-c ... 5-555.html

thanks

[uprightdoc]

Hi Civic,

I can't tell much from these few fuzzy views. The white areas you see are fluids not lesions. The depression in the frontal lobe of the brain is interesting but it could be the particular slice you are showing. Slices are started at one ear and go across the brain to the other ear. The brain can look strange as you get toward the outer slices. Nonetheless, I would scroll through to see if there is a depression at the top of the brain, which would suggest that fluids are accumulating toward the venous lacunae and superior sagittal sinus and that your drainage system is backed up.

[civickiller]

i do have clearer images but their smaller, i tried to make it bigger to see. i hope these arent blurry

[uprightdoc]

Clearer is better but you still need to scroll through and see all the slices to get a better picture. From what you put up it looks a little constricted in the upper cervical spine. You appear to be farily young.

[civickiller]

im trying to find my original

i also have this size but i thought it was too small



yes i am fairly young, 29

Thanks Dr. F


edit, i do have brain and cervical spine mris but they all seem to be slices and you can hardly see the spine of course that is my very very infant opinion , ill try upload