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This is an abstract and commentary on research very important to the chiropractic profession.

 

Journal of Spinal Disord 2000 Aug;13(4):319-23

Adult tethered cord syndrome.

Yamada S, Lonser RR

Division of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, California 92530, USA.

Although often overlooked, the diagnosis of adult "tethered cord syndrome" (TCS) is important because the manifestations of this syndrome are readily reversible by untethering. Too often, adult patients with TCS are misdiagnosed as having "failed back syndrome" or other unrelated spinal problems. As a result, many patients are treated with modalities which fail to improve neurological function. The aims of this review are to acquaint readers with the pathophysiology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment of adult TCS based on author's experience in 70 cases. Adult TCS manifested by severe back and leg pain, a subtle onset of motor/sensory changes and musculoskeletal deformities is correlated to TCS pathophysiology and imaging studies. Timely diagnosis of TCS can lead to pain relief and restoration of neurologic function and patient gratification.

 

The article on Adult Tethered Cord Syndrome:

A more complete summary of the article:

     First, they checked what happens with nerve tissue in the cords of live animals and humans when nerve impulses were active. The way they checked the activity was determining that the nerve conduction was directly related to specific oxidation pathways in the nerves (think of the Krebs Cycle for oxidation and you have it).

      They then determined that a certain enzyme in the pathway absorbed a certain frequency of light when involved in the catalyzation pathway (when it is working) and then did not absorb that frequency of light when it was not working; an on-off measure. The rate of on-off is directly related to the rate of the process. The rate of the process is directly related to the ability of the nerve to function. When the nerve was functioning well there was a lot of on-off; when the nerves were not functioning well there was less on-off, and not functioning at all was no on-off.

       Using light beams and sensors they measured the activity of the nerves (the on-off) in cats and humans as the cord was stretched and not stretched.

      In the cats, the greater the traction weights (2 to 5 grams) the less nerve activity as measured by the oxidation rate.

      After mild or moderate traction was released, the oxidation rate (nerve activity) returned to the baseline (normal) rate immediately.

     After release of high traction weight the recovery was incomplete but there.

 

     The human studies were of three basic groups in patients with tethered cord:
1. Patients with subtle neurologic signs (note these are objective signs measuring sense and motor ability) had mildly reduced oxidation states before the cord was untethered and normal states after. Their signs subsided within two weeks after untethering.

2.  Patients with significant motor, sensory, urinary dysfunction and/definite musculoskeletal deformities had moderate to markedly reduced oxidation states before untethering and normal states after untethering. They had dramatic improvement of symptoms within three months of untethering.

3.  Patients with moderate to severe neurologic deficits and musculoskeletal deformities had oxidation levels that were markedly reduced before untethering and moderately reduced after untethering. They showed mild but significant improvements in motor and sensory function with little or no change in bladder function after untethering. (Imagine if the procedures completely untethered the cord alá Breig or ABC™.)

      (Just a note – using the method Breig used of screwing a plastic ribbon suboccipitally, threading it down to the thoracic spine, pulling it tight enough to create a slight extension of the head and neck and tying it off in the thoracic spine to stay that way, always reduced the symptoms AND improved bladder control in much less than 3 months as does ABC. Yamada used the procedure below which was not as effective.)

          What is done here is a laminectomy at a level to expose the conus medularis and filum terminalle. In cases of confirmed inelasticity of the filum it is transected to loosen the tension and things are sown up. The patient is left prone until there is no CSF leakage.

      There is also a note the patterns of neurological involvement are not dermatomal but variable. This is because the patterns of involvement are related to which particular nerves are involved. That varies from patient to patient and even within the same patient depending upon position and mechanical stress pattern or focus points at any given moment.

     The truth is that these findings are exactly the findings Breig had in the late 1960s and 70s. The surgical procedure is not as effective as Breig’s method for slackening the cord but it is another method and does work somewhat.

       I can already hear the bitching about no effectiveness studies showing Advanced BioStructural Correction™ accomplishes the same thing but the clinical trials by docs all around the country  ---  ask George Kukurin if he doesn’t get these results as well as the other ABC™ docs --- demonstrate findings that are the same type of findings but better results than Dr. Yamada shows with the surgery.  Update -- Ron Schmidt DC from Tracy CA, got the ABC™ At-Home seminar on a Thursday, tried it on a few people early the next week (right out of the box -- he did not even call to ask any questions). One was an MS patient who could not stand without a cane and holding onto something. Immediately, the MS patient noticed she would stand and walk without holding on to anything or using her cane. Further, she comment and then demonstrated that she could move her left leg (previously spastic) without using here hand -- which she had to do for the last decade.  You too can get results like that with Advanced BioStructural Correction™  less than a week after getting the At-Home seminar.

     This one study, and there are about 17 more similar, confirms Breig’s studies of 20 and 30 years ago.

 

       By the way, this is the mechanism of nerve involvement in chiropractic. As I have previously said: DD Palmer was completely correct in his observations of what can be done with chiropractic but he was incorrect as far as the mechanism.

    The stretch of the nerves is the mechanism and explains all the difficulties people have had in explaining chiropractic.  The only thing missing is full spine standing and sitting mechanical analysis to fully explain the overall spinal mechanics causing the spinal column to become flexed and lengthened which tensions or tethers the cord and leads to all these variations of symptoms.

 

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