POST-VIRAL SYNDROMES: ??? Pompe Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, polyneuritis, polymyalgia ....

Late one night about a year ago, I was watching a Discovery Health Channel report on a child with a very similar picture of the Asian child and the elderly lady I have mentioned above. This show caught my attention. I said to myself I wonder if this child in the Discovery Health Channel show had flu or colds at the beginning of the picture of the disease, and right after I questioned myself, the narrator said that the only thing this child had at the beginning were flu symptoms which got gradually worse. The parents took the child everywhere searching for the cure. Finally, they ended up at the Mayo Clinic and after a lot of testing they concluded that this disease has a name but no cure . They called it POMPE DISEASE.
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TORTICOLLIS (CONGENITAL) Experts are not certain as to the cause of this kind of Torticollis, some say that babies are born with neck problems due to mal-position in uterus (fetus in the wrong position while in the womb) and others say this condition may be related to injury of the neck and stretching of the muscles of the baby's neck at birth.
The baby's neck is twisted and head is deviated or tipped to one side while the chin is turned to the other side, there is often muscle swelling, shortening of the neck and neurological symptoms due to compression of the nerve roots. Alternative treatments (needle-less acupuncture) combined with manual therapy has been very successful in our facility, curing this condition in about 4 to 5 visits in babies suffering from mild to moderate TORTICOLLIS.



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Young child with excruciating pain in the thighs



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February 6, 2010

The recurrent ankle sprain of the one who wants to play softball

I shared this occurrence with a couple of my patients who have the same things in common. The first patient is a 48-year-old male who originally injured his foot at the age of 13. He came to our facility with a severe ankle injury. During the initial evaluation, I noticed that his leg looked bluish; it was hypersensitive and very painful to touch, cold clammy and somewhat atrophied (losing muscle bulk). In my experience dealing with this kind of injury, especially after recurrent injuries of an extremity, I see signs of RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) which I spoke about before in the case of Mrs. F.. The patient was depressed and very demoralized due to this chronic painful ankle and foot, and unable to play his favorite game of softball. Usually it takes a while for this kind of injury to heal, since we are dealing with connective-tissue injury, which takes longer to heal than a common fracture. This patient seemed very eager to get better and he requested acupuncture. He received several sessions of acupuncture and started to feel significantly better by the 10th treatment. He is now 100% improved and playing softball every weekend with his buddies. He is finally cured after 35 years of recurrent injury to his ankle.
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