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Commonly used interventional procedures for non-cancer chronic spine pain: a clinical practice guideline Jason W Busse; Stéphane Genevay; Arnav Agarwal; Christopher J Standaert; Kevin Carneiro; Jason Friedrich; Manuela Ferreira; Hilde Verbeke; Jens Ivar Brox; Hong Xiao; Jasmeer Singh Virdee...

A Brief Overview of the Cerebrospinal Fluid System and Its Implications for Brain and Spinal Cord Diseases Thea Overgaard Wichmann, Helle Hasager Damkier, Michael Pedersen A comprehensive understanding of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) system is essential for our understanding of health and...

Direction and magnitude of cerebrospinal fluid flow vary substantially across central nervous system diseases Per Kristian Eide, Lars Magnus Valnes, Erika Kristina Lindstrøm, Kent-Andre Mardal, Geir Ringstad Background Respiration-induced pressure changes represent a powerful driving force of...

Spinal CSF flow in response to forced thoracic and abdominal respiration Gökmen Aktas, Jost M. Kollmeier, Arun A. Joseph, Klaus-Dietmar Merboldt, Hans-Christoph Ludwig, Jutta Gärtner, Jens Frahm, Steffi Dreha-Kulaczewski Background Respiration-induced pressure changes represent a powerful...

Purpose: Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) present with a broad spectrum of symptoms, including headache. A simple, yet powerful tool – the pain drawing identifies essential aspects such as pain distribution. The aim with this study was to 1) evaluate the...

I think the spreading and endorsing of pseudoscience has gone far enough. I would like to make a personal request here to the following people to publicly declare that they agree that disseminating claims linking ME/CFS to spinal problems requiring surgery is unwarranted and irresponsible. I...

Bragée Clinic in Sweden is planning a study looking at 'Craniocervical dysfunction, neuroinflammation and infection in ME/CFS ws healthy controls' Jonas Bergquist from OMF's research center in Uppsala, among others. ETA: The study will include 80 patients from the Bragée clinic with an...

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Concerns about craniocervical instability surgery in ME/CFS CCI/AAI has little in common with ME/CFS Three ME/CFS patients, Jeff, Jennifer, and Matt, have reported improvements of their ME/CFS symptoms following surgical interventions for craniocervical instability (CCI) and atlantoaxial...

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Hi all! I'm working to improve the quality of information for patients with ME, fibro, EDS, POTS, mast cell activation disorder having surgery as well as crowdsourcing a set of best practices for hospitals. The former will eventually be packaged into handouts patients can give their surgeon...