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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February 6, 2010

The singer with vocal cord polyps with squeaking voice when singing

Today I received a referral from the speech pathologist at our Center. This is a case of a teacher and choral singer who was diagnosed with bilateral vocal cord polyps. Her main complaint was constant hoarse voice and inability to hit high notes when singing which she was always able to do in the past. In addition, she demonstrated severe dryness of the throat and squeaking voice when singing over an A or middle C , as well as tightness in the upper throat and difficulty sleeping at night. She had to chew gum and drink water constantly to keep her throat moist. Her first treatment of acupuncture to help restore the moisture in the throat and to decrease the inflammation due to overuse of the vocal cords. We were both happily surprised with the results. She noticed immediate restoration of moisture in the throat and less tightness. During her second treatment she told me that she felt moisture in her throat and didn’t feel the need to use the chewing gum or water. She also reported a significant improvement in the quality of her voice.
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