Category Archives: Multiple Sclerosis

While the medicine does not have answers for the cause of MS or a cure, many people with MS are searching out natural ways to heal themselves. Blair Upper Cervical Chiropractic care and other techniques within the upper cervical are having oftentimes dramatic results with MS cases.

Dr. Erin Elster who use to practice in Colorado has published an extensive case series on Multiple Sclerosis and how traumatic head injuries prior to onset may be a causative factor in many of these cases.

Another researcher and an upper cervical doctor named Scot Rosa have found that MS patients have restricted CSF(cerebrospinal fluid) flow which, following atlas corrections, can return to normal levels. Not only are they seeing changes in CSF flow in these cases, but they are also seeing dramatic improvements in patients who suffer from MS.

Not only are MS patients receiving relief and healing from upper cervical doctors, but a little-known procedure we have learned about while dealing with many MS cases in our office is the Klenner Protocol. Dr. Klenner was a well-known medical doctor in the ’50s and 60 ‘s who was bucking the allopathic trend at that time. 

Klenner was a big proponent of vitamin therapy and intramuscular injections. In our office, we have seen patients with MS prior to the start of upper cervical care that has had significant gains in the MS symptoms by following Klenner’s protocol. 

As always, we hope that this article brings hope and useful information that is not otherwise available to those that suffer and have only searched within the allopathic model. The internet is leveling the playing field regarding how people are informed about their health. 

The days of ‘here take this pill and shut up’ are not cutting it. Many are turning to the internet for information that may be helpful in their healing. Our blogs have one purpose and that is to disseminate information to the seeker.

Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a fairly common neurological condition that we see throughout the world. It is so common, that there are about 200 new diagnoses each day. Most of these diagnoses are female, usually around 30 to 40 years of age. Unfortunately, this is a terminal condition; once you have MS, almost everyone has MS until it takes their life.

As upper cervical doctors, we see a decent amount of MS patients. What is MS? Multiple sclerosis is a condition where the immune system attacks certain cells in the nervous system. All of your peripheral nerves, or the nerves outside of the spinal cord that goes to your arms, legs, heart, lungs, and all of your organs, have something called myelin that surrounds the nerve.

The myelin is there for conduction. You have electrical signals going through your nervous system and the myelin allows those signals to be distributed at a quicker rate. However, in multiple sclerosis patients, this myelin starts getting eaten away by the immune system. MS patients start to have issues like numbness and tingling in the legs, feet, arms, and hands. They start to have vision problems, hearing loss, and taste loss, all because the myelin is getting eaten away from the nerves. The nerves are malfunctioning and over time, it gets worse and worse. The more myelin that gets eaten away, the worse the symptoms get to the point where people at the end stages of MS, can’t even swallow or speak, see, or hear. 

MS takes motor skills as well. Most victims of MS are wheelchair-bound by the end of their life. It’s a very terrible, debilitating condition that, unfortunately, conventional care does not really know what to do with. A lot of these neurodegenerative diseases are treated by throwing some medications at it to hopefully help with the symptoms and provide some relief, but they never get to the cause of multiple sclerosis. That is what we are here for. As upper cervical doctors, we get to the cause of the MS by finding interference to the nerve system.

Research shows that upper cervical care helps multiple sclerosis patients. A study was done in 2015 and of 77 patients out in Italy. Every single one of them had multiple sclerosis or cerebrospinal insufficiency, a condition of the nervous system when CSF, or the fluid in the nervous system, is impeded, presenting similarly to multiple sclerosis.

The results say, “The differences between the clinical symptoms before and after the specific treatment of C1-C2 or those upper cervical bones are statistically significant…” This means that the upper cervical care given to these MS patients was effective on all 77 of them. Did it completely get rid of the MS? No, but some were completely symptom-free, and every single one, all 77 participants, saw some type of benefit with upper cervical care. Unbelievable. It just goes to show that upper cervical care does help with MS. 

Why? Because when we find the subluxation, or the misalignment at the top of the neck putting pressure on the brainstem, a vital part of the nervous system, we start to see dysfunction throughout the body.

When we correct the misalignment, we help the nervous system work properly. Now the brain is telling the immune system, “Hey, this is just myelin surrounding the nerves. It is not a foreign invader. You do not have to attack it.” The immune system stops attacking the nerve and the MS symptoms start to go away.

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system. This disease disrupts the flow of information within the brain and the information between the brain and body. Multiple sclerosis has affected people mostly between the ages of 20 and 50 with women being diagnosed two to three times more than men.

What is the Most Common Multiple Sclerosis Symptom?

When multiple sclerosis first begins, the person may experience the following early signs:

Vision problems – Inflammation from multiple sclerosis affects the optic nerve and causes double vision, blurred vision, or a loss of vision. 

Weakness or fatigue – In the early onset of multiple sclerosis, about 80 percent of people have had unexplained fatigue or weakness. (National Multiple Sclerosis Society) When the nerves in the spinal column begin to deteriorate, it can lead to chronic fatigue.

Bladder issues – Having trouble with being able to hold in urine, strong urges to urinate or having frequent urination also affects up to 80 percent of multiple sclerosis sufferers.

Cognitive difficulties – This includes problems with memory, staying organized, inability to focus, and difficulties with language. 

Pains and spasms – According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, half of people suffering from multiple sclerosis experienced chronic pain. Having muscle stiffness or muscle spasms are also common.

Tingling and numbness – Multiple sclerosis affects the nerves within the brain and the spinal cord. Since this area is also how the body and brain communicate with one another, mixed signals can be sent throughout the body or, sometimes, no signals are sent at all – resulting in numbness. These sensations of tingling or numbness can be felt in the face, arms, fingers, and legs.

Trouble with balance or dizziness – Those who have multiple sclerosis have reported feeling dizzy or lightheaded. Some have also reported vertigo, which means the environment feels as if it is spinning or you feel you are moving when you aren’t (often referred to as having a “false sense of balance”).

The most common early sign of multiple sclerosis is problems with vision and experiencing sensations of tingling and numbness. Having a vision problem associated with multiple sclerosis may not be noticeable right away and could be a slow process while tingling and numbness sensations happen quicker and are the most common warning signs of multiple sclerosis.

Why Does Multiple Sclerosis Affect my Health?

Since multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system, the body can end up suffering greatly from the disruption of the flow of information. This means the body will be unable to heal or repair itself properly. Because of this, the body will not be able to fight illness to the best of its ability and mixed signals can lead to the body damaging itself.

The central nervous system controls sight, smell, taste, feeling, hearing, voluntary and involuntary functions, and gives you the ability to think and respond. Having the central nervous system harmed can lead to a lot going wrong. This is why those who have multiple sclerosis experience many different symptoms including with sight, feeling, and mental function.

Difference Between Multiple Sclerosis and Pinch Nerve

Multiple sclerosis can cause numbness or weakness, which is also a symptom of pinched nerves. The difference between multiple sclerosis and a pinched nerve, however, is a pinched nerve occurs from pressure placed upon the nerve by surrounding tissues. These tissues that cause pressure on the nerve can be bones, cartilage, muscles, or tendons.

In multiple sclerosis, the protective coating of the nerves that surround the central nervous system becomes damaged by the body’s own immune system. It’s a disease that attacks your body and affects the nerve signals being sent back and forth between the brain to spinal cord.

A person with multiple sclerosis could have the symptoms of multiple sclerosis for years before seeking a treatment for it as they are usually unaware, they have multiple sclerosis and believe its early symptoms could be a pinched nerve or muscle strain. If you notice symptoms besides numbness and tingling from the list above, it could be a sign of multiple sclerosis.

However, a pinched nerve can harm on the body as well and should also be treated to prevent it from causing problems.

Can Multiple Sclerosis be Treated by a Neck Adjustment?

Our neck consists of two very important bones, called the atlas and the axis. These two bones are located in what’s called our upper cervical spine which is located in the neck area beneath the base of the skull.

The reason why these bones are so important is because they house our brain stem: our brain to body’s communication powerhouse. If pressure is placed onto the brain stem, it can affect our bodily functions and cause a lot of problems throughout our bodies – including disrupting our nervous system and disrupting signals the brain and body send back and forth.

If these signals are disrupted or are not being sent at all, the body will not react or heal itself properly and sometimes ends up harming itself out of confusion. A lot of conditions can stir up from having a compressed brain stem. A neck adjustment can help alleviate the pressure placed on the brain stem and enable it to return to its normal functions.

Best Chiropractic Technique for Multiple Sclerosis

The best chiropractic technique for multiple sclerosis would have to be one that focuses on the upper cervical (neck) area. Upper cervical chiropractic adjustments target the top two bones of your spine, where the brain stem lies. Unlike general chiropractic, upper cervical uses gentle and very precise movements to correct the misalignments that cause pressure on your brain stem.

As a result, the rest of the spine ends up shifting to follow the upper cervical alignment. This allows the spine to correct other misalignments it may have pressing against other nerves.

Since multiple sclerosis attacks parts of your body that are important to its everyday function, the cause of multiple sclerosis could be hiding within a compressed brain stem that is disrupting your body’s messages.

Once pressure is taken off the brain stem, the body quickly begins sending correct signals to repair and heal itself. Many patients have reported astounding positive results from upper cervical adjustments in as little as one visit and see many other issues within their body clear up.

Can Chiropractic Offer Multiple Sclerosis Treatment?

Upper cervical chiropractic would be the most recommended type of chiropractic for treating multiple sclerosis as it focuses directly on the brain stem and looks to return brain to body communication back to normal.

A compressed brain stem can lead to multiple sclerosis because of communication error, so it is important to correct the misalignment that disrupts the functions of the brain stem to allow the body to respond the way it needs to.

Chiropractic Multiple Sclerosis Practitioner Near Me

If you have multiple sclerosis or believe you are experiencing symptoms of multiple sclerosis, we can help. Upper cervical adjustments are completely safe and gentle enough for any age.

Because of the body being able to respond properly to signals after upper cervical adjustments, many underlying causes of illnesses or conditions are corrected. When it comes to medication or surgery, these are made to target the symptoms instead of the cause which is why many patients have reported no improvement on their condition after medication and surgery.

With upper cervical adjustments, you give your body the chance to take care of itself natural and target what’s harming you. With an exam, we can see if you have a misalignment, indicate the severity of it, and see how it is affecting your body.

There are 2.3 million people living with Multiple Sclerosis in the world right now. Every week in the United States alone, there are 200 more cases diagnosed in the United States. 200 a week. It’s become a big problem in the US. Well, I’ve got some very exciting news. We recently finished up some research we did in conjunction with Sapienza Medical School in Rome, Italy.

We have found some pretty incredible things. We have had great success helping people with Multiple Sclerosis in our office, which actually led to some people coming to the United States to be seen in our clinic, staying in a hotel for three months, and getting checked for a misalignment at the top of their neck for their Multiple Sclerosis.

 They went back and had pretty phenomenal results, good enough results to actually get the attention of their medical doctors back in Italy who reached out to me and said, “Hey, how did this happen? How did these guys come over here better?

One guy came over in a wheelchair and went back three months later and was walking without his wheelchair. How is this happening? We’ve never seen anything where Multiple Sclerosis actually can be reversed. At best, medicine tries to slow down the degenerative process of Multiple Sclerosis. How could this possibly be that people could actually heal and actually improve and get well?”

 He came over to spend a couple of weeks with me in the office, and I showed him and explained to him what we did, and what was different. We believe what we found was a misalignment at the top of the neck, specifically affecting the brain stem and affecting cerebrospinal fluid flowing from the brain to the body back to the brain.

That misalignment at the top of the neck would interfere with all of those things, not just cerebrospinal fluid, but also nerve function from the brain to the body, as well as even venous drainage, or blood drainage from the brain. All of these things slowed down the movement of particles through the body that would allow them to deposit more freely on the brain, which we believe created the spots on the brain and affects the nerve system.

 Anyway, at the end, they basically said, “Hey, let’s do some research.” I sent a doctor to Rome where we worked on, checked, and corrected 77 patients over a six-week period, all diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. All they did (the medical doctors and the hospitals) just did the diagnosis.

We did all the care. We checked every patient. We adjusted patients when necessary to make sure that we kept them clear at the top, meaning, making sure, first of all, when they came in to see if they had a misalignment at the top of their neck.

Every single of the 77 MS patients did, and we adjusted them and made sure that we removed the pressure at the brain stem so that now everything flowed freely, the nerve system communicated to the body at 100%, and then we checked them periodically over six weeks. The results we came back with blew away the medical doctors. The first time that they had ever seen 100% of the patients improved. All 77 had improvements in just six-week period.

 Now, what were those improvements? I printed some things out I thought would be pretty cool, but you can look this up. You can go into PubMed, type in Upper Cervical, Multiple Sclerosis, Dr. Moser, Dr. Marceca, and all these were people involved in the study.

Motor improvement, in just six weeks: 35% improved, 35% in just six weeks. That’s one. Visual and acoustic improvements: 37% and 49% just within six weeks. This is the part that really blew me away that I thought, “How phenomenal is this?” This is not just Multiple Sclerosis.

This particular group of people had Multiple Sclerosis, but this is what we see every day across the globe: people getting their brain stem interference removed: perceptive and cognitive. Cognitive was 59%, perceptive improvement, 78%. 78%. 80% improvement in your cognitive ability. I mean, how many people don’t want to their brain to work better in perceptive ability?

 This was just a six-week period. Now, how can that be? Well, a misalignment here interferes with brain function, and interferes with messages from the brain to the body. If you interfere with those messages, limbs don’t work right, legs don’t work right, brain doesn’t work right.

If you can find it, if you can remove the inference, all of a sudden, the messages open up to the arms, to the legs, to the torso. The brain can communicate to the brain the way it was designed to. It’s unbelievable, but yet, there’s no drugs, there’s no negative side effect. The only side effect is improved health because the only thing that can happen when your nervous system works better, and your brain communicates better to the body is the body can heal.

 If you have Multiple Sclerosis or if you just want to improve your health overall, find an upper cervical doctor near you. Google “Upper Cervical Chiropractor near me.”

We have instrumentation. We have programs we can check you with to determine do you have pressure at the top of your neck, or if you have something that could be interfering with the brain communicating to the body. If so, we do a very gentle procedure to remove the interference, so now the brain communications in 100%. Who doesn’t want that? What could possibly be wrong with having your brain work better and have your brain talk to your body better? I mean, that’s what we do.