CCSVI and brain pressure - Dr Flanagan

CCSVI and Brain Pressure

CCSVI and CSF

Cranial hydrodynamics is a term used by radiologists to describe fluid mechanics in the brain, which includes blood and cerebrospinal fluid called CSF. Intracranial compliance is term used to describe pressure changes in the brain inside the skull caused by changes is CSF pressure as it pulsates on its course through the brain being driven by waves arising from the heart and arterial pulse waves along with respiratory waves, which amplify them. Techically they are called cardiorespiratory or B waves. Some scientists also call them volume waves in the brain.
In brief, the brain pulsates just like the beat of the heart. Things that disturb intracranial compliance and the rhyhmical movement of fluids can have profound affects on the health of the brain because it lies within a somewhat restricted closed container. The other two elements within the container are blood and cerebrospinal fluid mentioned above. An increase in the volume of any one element within the cranial vault must result in a decrease of one or both of the other elements. Two of the elements, blood and CSF are similar to water and therefore not very compressible. The brain, on the other hand is made of billions of nerves and over fifty percent fat, so it is much more compressible than blood or CSF.
CSF produced in the chambers of the brain called ventricles. A dense network of blood vessels surround the ventricles. CSF is made from blood that is drawn from the network of blood vessels through an extra-fine fine filter, called the blood brain barrier. The blood is drawn by a concentration created by salt, as well as a pressure gradient created by upright posture.
CSF is used to support the brain, which floats inside the skull as well as for cushioning and protection. Moreover, the brain has no lymph system. Instead, waste products are removed through the CSF system, which empties into the main vein at the top of the head called the superior sagittal sinus.
CSF production, flow and drainage from the brain is inexorably linked to venous drainage from the brain. CSF pressure in the ventricles is normally slightly higher than venous pressure so that it’s flow is toward the veins.
Upright posture creates a slightly negative pressure in the superior sagittal sinus, the main vein at the top of the head. This draws venous blood and CSF toward it. From here blood flows downhill along a steep slope like a waterfall to the base of the skull. In the bottom of the skull drain into either the jugular or vertebral vein routes.
The CSF pressure gradiant is very small so that venous drainage issues, such as back pressure in the veins in the basement of the skull, can affect intracranial compliance. It can also affect cranial hydrodynamics resulting in either too much CSF in the brain, called normal pressure hydrocephalus in adults or too little. Moreover, a decrease in the volume of CSF decreases brain support and raises the risk of pressure conus and Chiari like conditions. I cover cranial hydrodynamics thoroughly in my book, as well as Chiari and pressure conus conditions.

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Whiplash injuries and CCSVI - Dr. Flanagan/Uprightdoctor

Whiplash Injuries and CCSVI

Upper Cervical Spine

In engineering terms, stress from any type of force always strains the structures and materials they act on. Any structure or material can be strained technically speaking. All strains by definition result in deformation of their respective structures and materials. The difference is that elastic strains return back to normal while plastic strains do not. In engineering the crossover point between elastic and plastic strains is the yield point. Strains are categorized as large and small strains, which can be further broken down into infintissimal and micro type strains. Regardless of size, even small strains can can have a large impact on sturctures like cracks in a foundation fortelling of catastrophic failure.
Jumping from a steel bridge while attached to a bungee cord causes large elastic strains and deformation in the bungee cord. At the same time it causes infintissimally small elastic strains in the bridge and small but larger, hopefully elastic strains in the jumper’s body. On the other hand, whiplash and other suddden jerky or even slow sustained types of injuries to the spine can cause chronic micro plastic types of strains.
Chiropractors collectively catergorize all mechanical strains of the spine as subluxations. Technically speaking, subluxations are micro mechanical plastic strains of the spine that cause dis-ease in physiology, which is function. Some chiropractors argue that subluxations must include interference to communication in the nervous system, and that the only place where interference can occur is in the upper cervical spine. It is an age old arguement in chiropractic.
All strains of the spine, however, alter physiology. Furthermore, the spine is a structure, not a bunch of isolated segments so that one faulty segment can impact the function of the whole structure. Strains of the upper spine can affect the lower spine just as strains of the lower spine can affect upper areas. A spine that lists due to scoliosis from leg length discrepancy affecting its base can affect the upper cervical spine. Likewise a ten pound head that lists to one side can affect segments much further below, including the low back and legs. Furthermore, abnormal curvatures of the spine have been shown to affect the contents of the spinal canal, especially the vertebal veins, as they get compressed up against the inside curve of the canal, which can result in venous congestion and sluggish blood flow in the area. Lastly, deformation of the cartilage of the spine, called discs, can compress nerve roots directly, while other types of spinal strains deform soft tissues tunnels such as thoracic outlets in the shoulder girdle and the femoral and sciatic foramen in the pelvis.
The upper cervical spine, however, is without question one of the most critical areas of the spine, subject to a great deal of wear and tear stress that starts with birth and sometimes results in chronic strains called subluxations. The differece between upper cervcial strains and those that occur further down in the spine is that upper cervical subluxations, that is strains, affect the health of the brain and cord.
Among other things, upper cervical subluxations are associated with deformation, albeit small, of hard and soft tissue tunnels that contain critical circulatory routes for blood and cerebrospinal fluid flow, including venous drainage routes used to drain the basement of the brain during upright posture. Thus, UC subluxations can result in CCSVI. But they also do much more. The fact of the matter is, UC subluxations don’t simply pinch nerves, as chiropractors like to say, nor do they simply interfere with communication between the brain and the body. In contrast to a fracture of the UC spine that can kill a person instantly, upper cervical subluxations slowly strangle the life out of the brain and cord.

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Dr. Flanagan - Is there anything this man doesn't know about the engineering and function of the human body, I think not, it's astounding what he knows

About Dr. Flanagan

It was in 1982 that I met Dr. Harry Shapiro who was the former curator for the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and a leading expert on the design of the human skull, artificial skull deformation and trepination.
It was this relationship that put me on a course that I would never had envisioned. In 1978 I graduated with high honours from Sherman College of Chiropractic with particular focus on specific corrective care of the upper cervical spine, which is the most critical and important area of the spine. Following graduation I spent several years studying Applied Kinesiology and Sacrooccipital Technique, which includes specific pelvic analysis and corrective care procedures for the foundation of the spine, as well as craniopathy which is described below.
The pelvis contains the tail end attachment of the cord. Except for the tail, the brain and cord float within the cranial vault and spinal canal. The human pelvis is complex when it comes to health problems and requires specific analysis and correction. In my opinion, it is just as important as specific upper cervical care. Craniopathy, on the other hand, is the study of the musculoskeletal system of the skull, as well as cerebrospinal fluid flow, called CSF, in the brain and cord.
It was because of my interest in craniopathy that I met Dr. Harry Shapiro through a friend. The doctor became a patient and we had many long conversations regarding the design of the sutures and base of the skull, as well as craniopathy and chiropractic. While Dr. Shapiro was intriqued by basic chiropractic and craniopathic theories, certain craniopathic concepts clearly conflicted with his extensive forensic findings. In particular, he disagreed with issues regarding deformation of the base of the skull and the state of its special joints called sutures. Consequently, he insisted that I use the museum to do my own research.
When I got there he handed me a well used canvas sack with a set of old calipers strapped to the inside. Honestly, I had no idea about how to use them. He then gave me an old monogram he had published in 1928 called, “A Correction for Artificial Deformation of Skulls.” That’s how my chance investigation into the sutures and the design of the base of the human skull got started. It was supposed to be finished in just a few days. Instead, it turned into decades.
I spent several years examining hundreds of normal, pathological and artificially deformed human skulls. It was the artificially deformed skulls from former indigenous people of Peru and Bolivia, however, that started me looking into hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus, in turn, led to normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) and Alzheimer’s, which led to Parkinson’s and later mutliple sclerosis. Early on I recognized the close similarity between narrow angle glaucoma and NPH. Both are related to low pressure drainage issues due to similar causes. The difference is that glaucoma puts pressure on and damages the optic nerve causing blindness. NPH, on the other hand, puts pressure on the brain and causes dementia.
In addition to human skulls, I studied some primate skulls along with bats, whales and giraffes. I studied the later three because of the extreme circulatory challenges to the brain during head inversion and deep dives, which are similar to inversion and Valsalva maneuvers in humans and known to increase intracranial pressure. I was looking for answers and compensatory mechanisms these animals use to control intracranial pressure, and for possible clues as to how humans contend with challenges caused by upright posture. I found plenty of forensic evidence.
I wrote my first paper on the potential role of the spine in venous drainage issues and neurodegenerative diseases in 1987. A Google search for “stenosis Alzheimer’s” will produce an article I wrote for Dynamic Chiropractic in 1990 calling for research into the potential role of venous drainage isssues in the brain and Alzhiemer’s disease. I subsequently published many other papers on similar subjects, including Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. After three years of additional study, in 1990 I became certified in chiropractic neurology. In additon to my professional publications, I recently published a book called THE DOWNSIDE OF UPRIGHT POSTURE – THE ANATOMICAL CAUSES OF ALZHEIMER’S, PARKINSON’S AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, based on more than twenty years of research.
The book is written as a story to make it easier to digest and remember some important and difficult concepts. It is packed with relevant information. It was written for lay people, as well as physicians and scientists to stimulate further research. It was also written for anyone interested in physical anthropology, upright posture and the human brain. You can learn more about the book by visiting my website at uprightdoc.com. No one has all the answers to the mystery but we have some new and important pieces to the puzzle that may bring us closer to solving it. I will be discussing topics from the book on this blog. It is an important subject that needs further investigation.

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Field Control Therapy (FCT) is a unique deep complex and effective system of medicine-make up your own minds

Field Control Therapy® (FCT) is a unique, deep, complex and effective system of medicine.
FCT is scientific medicine that offers real health solutions. It uniquely integrates three sciences:
1. The Paradigm of LIVING SYSTEMS: Perspective, Priority, Essence, The Nature of Reality...
2. The Power of INFORMATION FIELDS: Physics, Bioresonance Testing, Information Medicine...
3. The Precision of DISEASE CAUSATION: Digital Forensics, Key Toxins, EMFs, Infections, Lifestyle...
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However, as FCT incorporates many different aspects, there is no single definition which can do it justice, and we have therefore also decided to share below a diverse list of definitions as volunteered by different FCT practitioners and students, in case anyone wants to hear some other perspectives besides ours above.

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Student definition which has been rated the most popular by other students:

Field Control Therapy is a relatively new healthcare system that specifically addresses the illnesses of the 21st century. Modern lifestyle comes at a cost. Poor diet, increased exposure to radiation, environmental pollutants and toxic metals are creating a host of new health problems from chronic fatigue to immunodeficiency, autism and MS, to name a few. FCT identifies key toxins underlying illness and treats with ‘causative homeopathy’ to restore healthy cellular functioning.

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Dr Yurkovsky is the creator of FCT, and this is an extract of his own definition:

Field Control Therapy offers medical knowledge with clearly defined essential priorities in both diagnosis and therapy.

FCT empowers health practitioners with a deep, unique Bio-resonance testing algorithm for the accurate diagnosis of the underlying causes of imbalance in the human organism.
To address these disruptions in the normal homeostatic networks, FCT employs the safe and therapeutic use of carefully administered homeopathic isodes (nosodes) whose frequencies correlate with underlying structures involved. These remedies are accompanied with the necessary supportive organ measures in order to attain maximum health benefits with minimal to no healing aggravations.
The rest of Dr Yurkovsky's definition can be read here.

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Below are alternative definitions as contributed by different FCT students/practitioners. Two of them were written by me (I won't reveal which!) - and in addition to these, the list also comprises the unedited descriptions of 19 other FCT students/practitioners. . . Just take your pick!

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FCT is a very effective form of alternative medicine. It’s used to diagnose and treat the deepest underlying causes of any symptom or illness: it goes much deeper than other approaches. It’s worth looking into!
FCT is an exceptionally powerful cutting-edge system of integrative medicine. It draws from essential knowledge in both alternative and conventional fields to comprise: (i) a deep and comprehensive understanding of health, illness, key priorities and energy medicine; (ii) a new diagnostic technique to uncover the true causes of all illness, drawing from bio-resonance/kinesiology but with revolutionary new means of screening very deeply & for determining the best order of priority; & (iii) powerful therapeutics based primarily on a unique innovative system of causative homeopathy.

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FCT is a new succinct homeopathic system which detoxes deep into the cells, prioritizes and heals the individual’s organs and revitalizes the whole body.

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A treatment that is able to identify and remove the main poisons from the main organs of the body, e.g. heart, brain, etc. Designed by an American doctor who is a heart specialist.
A treatment that identifies and removes the main toxins from the organs of the body in a meaningful and controlled way.

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FCT treatment is a bit like mending an electrical circuit. Do you remember learning about simple science and putting various objects across a bridge to make a circuit work? Well...our bodies are like this and our energy...the lightbulb will only be bright if all our circuitry is not impeded by any non transmitters in the circuit. Metals in this case are particularly bad and they stop energy flowing around our circuit. When this is removed, then the energy can flow again and we begin to feel better.

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Effective diagnosis using kinesiology and sarcodes.
Effective treatment using sarcodes and homeopathy/toxicology.

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FCT is an advanced form of ‘causative’ homeopathy. It is focused on the expulsion of modern-day toxins to allow the body’s natural healing to occur. Every treatment is tailored to the patient’s individual, neurologic and energetic response.
FCT is a therapeutic system of instructing the body to throw off deep-seated toxins which are preventing it from recovery. Individual testing ensures tailor-made healthcare.

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FCT is a system of medicine that uses bioenergetic testing to find the root causes of disease and causative homeopathy to annihilate those causes.
Disease initially and primarily exists at the energetic level, not the biochemical level. FCT can determine these imbalances and eradicate them.
FCT is a way of discovering the root cause of health problems and eradicating those causes using homeopathy.

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FCT understands that some of the body’s organs have been weakened by toxins such as mercury, which leaks from the dental fillings that most of us have, antibiotic residues, again which most of us have had, or even remnants of old vaccinations. It detects which organs are affected using a system of muscle testing and it then helps the body to release these toxins using a form of homeopathy. This form of homeopathy is also used to boost the particular organ as well as to bring the body in general back to health. FCT is also very specific about the necessity of adhering to certain food and lifestyle modifications that ensure that the body can recover fully and stay well. Depending on the person I am talking to I may add that it is a form of vibrational medicine.

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This therapy will highlight the poisons in one’s body that are causing ill health and provide a means to get rid of them in the most efficient and safest method known to man today.

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Field Control Therapy is a new complementary therapy based on a new branch of homeopathy, called causative homeopathy, which treats and deals directly in treating toxicity overloads in the body, infections, bacteria, traumas, past surgeries, etc., which are generally caused by poor nutritional status, poor diet, exposure to chemicals, toxicity in the environment, lifestyle, injuries and traumas. All these cause illness and injury to the body.

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FCT is a therapy which increases cellular intelligence which automatically improves health. Based on bio-resonance testing and the use of energetically imprinted water it stimulates a spontaneous, yet carefully controlled elimination of heavy metals and other key pernicious agents.

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What is Field Control Therapy, in a nutshell? People often ask me this. If responding from the point of view of a healthcare practitioner, this might be the briefest of possible explanations of the three “lynchpins” of FCT:

(1) Understanding illness from a completely new perspective, via a pioneering system of energy medicine. Drawing key information from the fields of toxicology and quantum physics into medicine for the first time. Introducing essential concepts such as that of “key toxins” and how to deal with them effectively and safely, and at the deepest level possible in the body.

(2) Testing using a unique new form of bio-resonance that incorporates a “non-force” form of Applied Kinesiology (non-force = no muscle is pressed, meaning higher objectivity).

(3) Treatment using a unique new form of “causative” homeopathy, the deepest and most comprehensive therapeutic system biologically possible to address the root causes of illness.

It is also important to mention, of course, that FCT is the brainchild of a cardiologist and medical genius in New York called Dr Yurkovsky (his website can be read at www.yurkovsky.com ) who developed it as a new paradigm of medicine to deal effectively with the enormous “fall-out” of failures from other conventional and alternative medical approaches.

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FCT is a treatment based on the concept of energetic medicine – similar to homeopathy in its method of application but working at much deeper levels within the body when appropriately practised. FCT deals primarily with the removal of deep rooted toxins held within our DNA/RNA molecular structures and other organs which are responsible for the survival and optimal functioning of the human and animal organism. To date people have reported profound shifts in their lives as a result of FCT treatments.

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FCT is a system of medicine based in physics rather than chemistry. It uses the body’s own energetic field to test and diagnose. This determines the treatment – which is homeopathic – an energy based medicine. The main focus of FCT protocols is to alter the internal environment that allows disease to proliferate.

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FCT is a sophisticated yet elegantly simply non-invasive method of working at a profound level with the body's innate intelligence to produce overall optimal health and functioning.  The practitioner uses bio-resonance testing via the autonomic nervous system and causative homoeopathy to assist in achieving this goal.

Wow, it’s amazing, you've just gotta try it!!

FCT is a new integrated understanding of health, complete with its own principles, diagnostics and therapeutics.

FCT provides us with a window to see into the body to discover what's really there. It gives us a blueprint for thoroughly and safely cleaning out all the pollution and debris which cause miscommunication not only between each cell, but between the master control centre in the nucleus of each cell and all the cell workers. When this is achieved, the individual is then free to manifest his/her true potential in life. The unique design of this blueprint allows it to be infinitely varied and fine-tuned for each person so that it can be applied safely with laser like accuracy. This is not a "one size fits all" method!
When this protocol is followed, it can be applied safely and with laser-like accuracy in any circumstances. FCT is an entirely new paradigm designed to provide a safe, effective way of restoring homoeostasis to the body. The inherent design of this blueprint allows it to be infinitely varied and fine-tuned so that it can be tailor-made for each individual at each stage of their progress.
This is not a one-size-fits-all method nor is it the shotgun approach of ‘if you give enough pills and potions something might have an effect’! Instead, FCT employs bio-resonance testing to determine the individual's needs regarding treatment priority of each organ/body system, the level of involvement, the strength and timing of each remedy and additional life-style protocols to follow to enhance the benefit of the remedies.
The remedies themselves contain specially prepared water, using the principles of homoeopathy. Unlike classical or complex homoeopathy, these remedies are primarily designed to be taken only once in one-drop doses. This method is known as Causative Homoeopathy.
By using bio-resonance testing via the autonomic nervous system, the most effective treatment protocol can be discovered with laser-like accuracy.
FCT is a synthesis of knowledge incorporating physics, quantum physics, energy related modern biology/biophysics, toxicology, immunology, immuno-toxicology, endocrinology and laws governing complex living systems.

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FCT is a safe new innovative way to discover the cause of any or all symptoms that deplete the energy of the body, while strengthening the immune system thereby preventing being ill in the future.

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FCT tests the whole body, at an energy level, for systemic dysfunction, using a kinesiology muscle test. Suitable FCT homeopathic remedies are given to re-balance key energies.

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What’s Your Poison? F.C.T. is excellent for chronic long standing problems. For example, sinusitis, sore throats, migraine. First the bioresonance testing can pinpoint the specific poison caught in the affected area, such as sinus, nasal passages, etc. and by using specialised homeopathic remedies cleanse all the organs affected. F.C.T. ensures the poisons are cleared out of the body completely, including from all the affected organs, especially the routes of elimination such as lymph, liver, kidneys, large intestine, etc. The poisons are cleared out layer by layer as required. This is known in F.C.T. as a washout.

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FCT is using energised vials similar to homeopathy to push out the different layers of toxins in the body while strengthening weak organs at the same time.

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FCT involves a non-invasive test of muscle response identifying disturbances in energetics of individual components of the body for which homeopathic remedies may be prescribed.

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This is a partial and ongoing list of possible definitions of FCT! If you would like to suggest a new one, please email it to us for consideration.

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