1 May 2015Article
Preliminary results after upper cervical chiropractic care in patients with chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency and multiple sclerosis
Sandro Mandolesi 1Giuseppe Marceca 2Jon Moser 3Tarcisio Niglio 4Aldo d’Alessandro 5Matteo Ciccone 5Annapaola Zito 5Dimitri Mandolesi 6Alessandro d’Alessandro 7Francesco Fedele 1
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1 Department of Cardio-vascular and Respiratory Sciences, Sapienza University Rome, Italy
2 Unitelma Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
3 Chiropractic Doctor, Philadelfia, USA
4 Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
5 Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, “G. D’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Pescara, Italy
6 Medicina del lavoro Sapienza University Rome, Italy
7 Faculty of Medicine Foggia University, Foggia, Italy
Ann. Ital. Chir., 2015, 86(3), 192-200;
Published: 1 May 2015
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Abstract
PURPOSE:The aim of the study is to evaluate the clinical and X-ray results of the Upper Cervical Chiropractic care through the specific adjustments (corrections) of C1-C2 on patients with chronic venous cerebral-spinal insufficiency (CCSVI) and multiple sclerosis (MS). METHOD: We studied a sample of 77 patients before and after the Upper Cervical Chiropractic care, and we analyzed: A) The change of the X-ray parameters; B) The clinical results using a new set of questions. The protocol of the C1C2 upper Cervical Chiropractic treatment, specific for these patients, lasts four months. From a haemodynamic point of view we divided the patients in 3 types: Type 1 - purely vascular with intravenous alterations; Type 2 - “mechanical” with of external venous compressions; Type 3 - mixed. RESULTS: We found an improvement in all kinds of subluxations after the treatment with respect to the pre-treatment X-ray evaluation, with a significant statistical difference. The differences between the clinical symptoms before and after the specific treatment of C1-C2 are statistically significant with p<0.001 according to the CHI-Square test revised by Yates. CONCLUSIONS: The preliminary X-ray and clinical improvements of the Upper Cervical Chiropractic corrections on C1C2 on these patients with CCSVI and MS encourage us to continue with our studies. We believe that the Upper Cervical correction on C1-C2 could be the main non-invasive treatment of the CCSVI mechanical type in patients with MS. Further studies are required to evaluate the correlation between the Upper Cervical Chiropractic correction on C1-C2 on the cerebral venous drainage and the cerebro-spinal fluid.
Keywords
- CCSVI
- Multiple sclerosis
- Upper Cervical Chiropractic care