SPMS CCSVI treatment
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Hello,
My name is Hank Ellis, thank you for being apart of my journey!
I was diagnosed with RRMS in 1996 and SPMS in 2012. Here is my brief history.
At 25 - 1993 (the only injury accident where I was driving) I got way more than just sandwiched between a pickup truck and an oldsmobile delta 88 in my little Saab. It was with so much force that (on a freeway where a vehicle broke down in the fast lane, guy in front of me stopped, I stopped) the truck behind me plowed me, piled me into the back of the Oldsmobile, and had enough force that it bounced me off of the car (saving me from being crushed) and plowed me along the grass and concrete median until my car stopped beside the oldsmobile and he ended up touching the bumper; all the time I had my foot on the brake. Hyper extension, hyper flexion, hyper extension whiplash was the result. My cervical spinal chord was so badly damaged that for over a decade, whenever I bent my neck down, I could feel my nerves light up right from the top of my neck to the tips of my toes.
That after several years led to a diagnosis of RRMS (Relapse-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis), but because of the location of the damage, I could control the disease by icing my neck and was able to run my small business and travel for both work and fun. (visiting my brother and his family in England)
In 2002, I was a passenger in a car in Florida, we were stopped on a 2 lane highway waiting for an opening to turn left to our motel when we were rear ended by 2 cars.
That led to a slow degradation of my health (including loss of feeling from the neck down and poor motor control of my limbs) and in 2012 I had to leave my home province and lose most of possessions to get diagnosed with secondary progressive MS. Consequently I lost my company, the ability to walk and generate an income.
I have been subsisting in a small town where MS is not common, and medical personnel have only been able to assist me to deal with the incredible insomnia that accompanied SPMS. But being so sensation deprived, it has taken more than a decade to learn that even overdose levels of sleeping pills won't put me to sleep, unless I am lying in a specific posture. I just learned that several weeks ago, and now I am trying to undo 3+ years of bad sleep at the assisted living facility.
There is a clinic in Frankfurt Germany that people I know have gone to, and they do more than just CCSVI (Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency). Knowing what my physical body has endured: the increase in feeling, motor function, and even being able to walk that they have experienced excites and motivates me.
That was from the surgery alone.
With what I have experienced and learned, I intend to visit the only 'true' holistic practitioner that I have met after surgery.
He is licensed in:
-Acupuncture
-Chirotherapy
-Swedish massage and Shiatsu
-From what I recall, other alternative treatments such as aromatherapy, reflexology, and possibly more.
Back in the 90's, being diagnosed only with RRMS, after a stressful work week and all of air pollution in Toronto, walking to his office was all I could do. However, 45 minutes after treatment, I walked home effortlessly.
So if CCSVI opens blocked vessels using other modalities to adjust bones,ligaments, tendons and muscles ; it should assist to improve the efficacy of the treatment.
I have already started adding to my diet items that improve circulation and increase blood flow so I am confident that CCSVI and the other MS treatments offered in Germany will not only have a profound affect, but be permanent.
I have also set in motion my plan. After finally being accepted following a lengthy wait for a bed to open up (facility in a larger city with direct flights to Frankfurt), I am hoping for an early 2019 trip before the weather warms up, making the already unbearable fatigue from MS even worse.
Again, thank you for being a part of this incredible journey!
Hank Ellis
My name is Hank Ellis, thank you for being apart of my journey!
I was diagnosed with RRMS in 1996 and SPMS in 2012. Here is my brief history.
At 25 - 1993 (the only injury accident where I was driving) I got way more than just sandwiched between a pickup truck and an oldsmobile delta 88 in my little Saab. It was with so much force that (on a freeway where a vehicle broke down in the fast lane, guy in front of me stopped, I stopped) the truck behind me plowed me, piled me into the back of the Oldsmobile, and had enough force that it bounced me off of the car (saving me from being crushed) and plowed me along the grass and concrete median until my car stopped beside the oldsmobile and he ended up touching the bumper; all the time I had my foot on the brake. Hyper extension, hyper flexion, hyper extension whiplash was the result. My cervical spinal chord was so badly damaged that for over a decade, whenever I bent my neck down, I could feel my nerves light up right from the top of my neck to the tips of my toes.
That after several years led to a diagnosis of RRMS (Relapse-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis), but because of the location of the damage, I could control the disease by icing my neck and was able to run my small business and travel for both work and fun. (visiting my brother and his family in England)
In 2002, I was a passenger in a car in Florida, we were stopped on a 2 lane highway waiting for an opening to turn left to our motel when we were rear ended by 2 cars.
That led to a slow degradation of my health (including loss of feeling from the neck down and poor motor control of my limbs) and in 2012 I had to leave my home province and lose most of possessions to get diagnosed with secondary progressive MS. Consequently I lost my company, the ability to walk and generate an income.
I have been subsisting in a small town where MS is not common, and medical personnel have only been able to assist me to deal with the incredible insomnia that accompanied SPMS. But being so sensation deprived, it has taken more than a decade to learn that even overdose levels of sleeping pills won't put me to sleep, unless I am lying in a specific posture. I just learned that several weeks ago, and now I am trying to undo 3+ years of bad sleep at the assisted living facility.
There is a clinic in Frankfurt Germany that people I know have gone to, and they do more than just CCSVI (Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency). Knowing what my physical body has endured: the increase in feeling, motor function, and even being able to walk that they have experienced excites and motivates me.
That was from the surgery alone.
With what I have experienced and learned, I intend to visit the only 'true' holistic practitioner that I have met after surgery.
He is licensed in:
-Acupuncture
-Chirotherapy
-Swedish massage and Shiatsu
-From what I recall, other alternative treatments such as aromatherapy, reflexology, and possibly more.
Back in the 90's, being diagnosed only with RRMS, after a stressful work week and all of air pollution in Toronto, walking to his office was all I could do. However, 45 minutes after treatment, I walked home effortlessly.
So if CCSVI opens blocked vessels using other modalities to adjust bones,ligaments, tendons and muscles ; it should assist to improve the efficacy of the treatment.
I have already started adding to my diet items that improve circulation and increase blood flow so I am confident that CCSVI and the other MS treatments offered in Germany will not only have a profound affect, but be permanent.
I have also set in motion my plan. After finally being accepted following a lengthy wait for a bed to open up (facility in a larger city with direct flights to Frankfurt), I am hoping for an early 2019 trip before the weather warms up, making the already unbearable fatigue from MS even worse.
Again, thank you for being a part of this incredible journey!
Hank Ellis
Organizer
Hank Ellis
Organizer
Grand Forks, BC
