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Monday, September 8. 2014Cervical Spondylosis/Spondylitis - Causes and treatment![]() Conventionally, the terms Cervical Spondylitis and Cervical Spondylosis (CS) are attributed to degenerative changes in the cervical spine. They are thought to be caused by natural progression with age in the intervertebral disks. The cause as per usual jargon is "unknown". Very little treatment is available through normal medical channels other than analgesics, anti-inflammatories or in some cases surgical interventions. What is the real cause of Cervical spondylitis or spondylosis? These are not a "natural progression with age" conditions. These are very treatable conditions especially if early intervention is carried out. These are an eventual consequence of damaging compensatory vertebral rotations and distortions caused by an imbalance towards the front of the head caused by: Cervical spondylitis and Cervical spondylosis can be further exacerbated by: • Repeated high-velocity adjustments of the neck 'subluxations';• Injuries to the neck such as whiplash. The head has to balance on the neck. If the structure of the face/jaws changes and becomes asymmetric the neck has to distort and compensate to regain head support and balance. These distortions occur by changes in the muscles which have to be continually stimulated to hold the neck vertebrae in such a way that the head can be adequately supported. The muscles get fatigued causing pain (sometimes excruciating), stiffness and difficulty in turning the neck. The permanently rotated vertebrae degenerate and show changes on radiographic images.
• Pain at the occipital base of the head; • Pain at the mastoid end of the Sterno Mastoid muscle; • Dizziness and ear problems; • Inability to turn the neck fully and pain on turning the neck; • Grinding noise or sensation when the neck is turned; • Changes in bone structure, for example, the formation of bony spurs; • Pain in the shoulders arms, hands or legs – usually one-sided; • Ataxia; • Tremor in the whole body; • Pain shooting down into one or both arms; • Headaches are a common accompaniment; • Difficulty breathing deeply; • Waking up unrefreshed and tired; • Symptoms are most severe in the morning and again at the end of the day; • Pressure on nerves as they exit the damaged spinal column causing tingling, numbness and/or weakness in upper limbs; • Pressure from hypertrophied and stiff muscles which pinch the nerves causing pain and numbness; • Further damage to the lower back and unlevel hips causing sciatic nerve pain, leg pain, numbness and difficulty walking; • Patients start getting numerous other organic disturbances including IBS and in females gynaecological problems; Lehrmitte’s sign: Sometimes called the barber chair phenomenon - an electrical sensation that runs down the back and into the limbs. In many patients, it is elicited by bending the head forward or backwards. This sign is too often WRONGLY attributed to damage in the neural tissues of the brain and the spinal column. It is used as one of the cardinal signs in the diagnosis of 'Multiple Sclerosis'. We have had 3 out of 3 'MS' patients who recovered from this sensation rapidly. It cannot be due to damage in the dorsal columns of descending pathways from the brain as falsely claimed by the promulgators of the mythical 'Multiple Sclerosis'. How is Cervical spondylitis or spondylosis diagnosed? You have to complete an extensive questionnaire about your symptoms and your medical and dental history. This will be followed by an appointment for a physical examination of the teeth, jaws, your Atlas vertebrae, hip levels and leg length discrepancies with a focus on the neck, back, breathing and painful spots. What are the treatments for Cervical spondylitis or spondylosis? It is extremely important that one gets treatment long before serious damage to the neck spine takes place. If we are able to positively diagnose you with a jaw asymmetry problem and an asymmetry of your Atlas vertebrae as the cause of your cervical problems a treatment plan is made and discussed with you. Most patients notice an immediate improvement of their symptoms on starting the treatment. Where the problem has been of long-standing recovery may take longer. Very rarely advanced cases may need surgical attention essentially to relieve symptoms. Please note that some patients may have advanced problems like Chiari malformation or Cranio-cervical instability. These need advanced surgical interventions and only very little benefit will be gained through orthodontic interventions. Please note that we are increasingly finding that in almost 90% of cases of Atlas asymmetry, the rotation is a consequence of Jaw asymmetry correcting which, corrects the Atlas. Pummelling the Atlas into submission with pulsating tools in the absence of jaw correction can cause serious adverse reactions. ©2014 -2021Dr. M. Amir. All rights reserved. Friday, April 2. 2021Case series of "Medical" conditions successfully treated through dentistry.All dentists throughout the world must read this article as must those who are chronically ill.I thank the many patients who are writing reviews all over the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter about the excesses of the GDC. Through their reviews, it has come to my attention that there are many more conditions I have helped to heal over the last 38 years and I need to add them to the list below. This will be done shortly as the public needs to find out what is possible and where they are being scammed. 30 years of experience shows that orthodontic corrections can relieve or eliminate multiple symptoms associated with multiple conditions in at least 48 conditions listed below. This form of care can have a successful outcome ranging from some 60% to almost 100%, but will the GDC let dentists participate in the revolutionary concepts presented on this website? A new light needs to start flickering for societal evolution and benefit. The present system prospers on ripping life both out of patients and dentists. A governmental urgent action is required to banish this organisation and replace it with a forward-thinking entity. The illnesses listed below are the domain of medical practitioners where the outcome is usually ZERO, NIL, NADA, ZILCH. My claim of 'nil outcomes' was also confirmed by a very senior NHS executive at the hearing who emphasized the point that the medical treatment with drugs was always of a palliative nature and never curative. Can one imagine how many billions the country is sending down the drain daily for which you and I have to pay? So, please read carefully. You may have a family member suffering terribly because of the medical model of illness we have been brainwashed into following. It is actually mostly dental with medicine having zilch to do with it. The dentists have to demand their right to treat such patients and CLAIM that they are the ones indeed healing rather than being petrified of the GDC of any such claims. The rights of the GDC to employ law firms and multiplying molehill issues into problems bigger than the Himalayas should be wrested away by the government and they should only be allowed to hold mediation hearings. If the cases are serious hand them over to the police but in the meantime get out of the way of progress. The outcomes of such a system of care governed by medical and dental bodies are that the patients are sentenced to a lifetime of chronic illness with no relief in sight. We are led to believe that the governing bodies were there to protect patients. This is patently not so. I shall be publishing a great deal of more evidence in this respect very soon exposing the nefarious activities of those entrusted with our care and protection. The only respite can come when the stranglehold of the ruling bodies, which appear to be perpetuating illness, is wrestled away from them restoring public protection. The sick deserve to be healed not exploited and wilfully maimed to line the pockets of lawyers and other snake oil peddlers. Dentists are at the cusp of taking over the care and health of patients. This art form of treatment is beginning to be well developed in the USA with holistic dentists making huge inroads to bring about craniodental symmetry in patients and thus helping resolve very many symptoms previously the domain of their medical doctors. Dentists should be free to advertise this ability and claim the care of most symptoms, but the present legal system, governing bodies and medical negligence outfits are a serious hindrance to the attainment of such a goal for the benefit of very seriously ill patients. Fallacious illness labels are created such as "Social Anxiety Disorder", "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", "Fibromyalgia", "Irritable Bowel Syndrome". Add to these "autoimmune illnesses" such as "Multiple Sclerosis", "Polymyalgia Rheumatica", "Rheumatoid arthritis", and countless others by recruiting certain clusters of symptoms into various syndromes. The treatment modality centres around treating symptoms and not diseases; but strangely many diseases evaporate away. Supporting evidence is on multiple places on this Website. All these "illnesses" create lifelong business for the medical-industrial complex, which includes hospitals and the practitioners dispensing the often dangerous and useless pharmacopeia. Most drugs have adverse effects, which are treated with additional drugs instead of withdrawing the culprit medication. Soon many patients start rattling with up to 25 prescription drugs. This system of medical care keeps the patients trapped for years under these chronic illness generating schemes. Some of these drugs often labelled as "Disease-Modifying Therapies" or DMT's can cost up to $400,000 per patient per year. No patient has ever recovered from these 'MS' drugs. I hasten to add that neither does anyone largely have 'MS'. I can say this after having seen some 300 'MS' patients and having treated many of their symptoms successfully without the use of any medication. Chronic illnesses are all cleverly crafted illness names into which the patient is fully enrolled and brainwashed with the mantra of a life-long illness even prior to them ever visiting a medical doctor. Many just need to hear the name of the diagnosis and they know that they have a lifelong untreatable illness and are mesmericaly resigned to their fate and taking bucket loads of pills for the rest of their lives. There is indeed no cure. THEY ARE NOT MEDICAL ILLNESSES. The patient's symptoms are actually caused by asymmetries of their cranium, jaws, teeth, and skeleton as shown in very many articles, testimonials and Google reviews on this website. Evidence-based medicine is brokenis the heading in an article written by a General practitioner Dr Des Spence in the British Medical Journal. He goes on to say:"Evidence-based medicine (EBM) wrong-footed the drug industry for a while in the 1990s. We could fend off the army of pharmaceutical representatives because often their promotional material was devoid of evidence. However, the drug industry came to realise that EBM was an opportunity rather than a threat. Research, especially when published in a prestigious journal, was worth more than thousands of sales representatives. Today EBM is a loaded gun at clinicians’ heads. “You better do as the evidence says,” it hisses, leaving no room for discretion or judgment. EBM is now the problem, fuelling overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Evidence-based medicine should be an integration of clinical expertise, the best available evidence and – most importantly – taking patients’ preferences, values and OUTCOMES into consideration.. The existing EBM's stark reality is zero outcomes in multiple hospital departments and GP surgeries!-----------------------------NOTICE--------------------------------- This article is written under the Human Rights Act 1998: UK Public General Acts 1998 c. 42 SCHEDULE 1 PART I Article 10 for the benefit of the long-suffering British public. Reviewed January 2021 ©2021 Dr M. Amir. All rights reserved.
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Sunday, June 22. 2014'Fibromyalgia' - a concoction of the absurd![]()
(You may also want to read the newest testimonial printed in the Positive Health Online Magazine last week here Fibromyalgia and similar conditions
There are about 800,000 patients who have been labelled as suffering from 'Fibromyalgia' in the UK. No viable treatment other than analgesics and antidepressants are available and the patients are condemned to a lifetime of suffering. 'Experts in Fibromyalgia' attending to these patients must refer them to a dental specialist at the outset for a differential diagnosis before diagnosing them into this mythical illness and before telling them that "there is no cure for 'Fibromyalgia', but drug treatment can ease some of your symptoms and improve your quality of life". Not to get clearance from a dental specialist is tantamount to gross medical negligence and actionable in a court of law. If you have been diagnosed with 'Fibromyalgia' or 'Fibromyalgia Syndrome' ('FM' or 'FMS') OR you have not had any relief through conventional means it may be time to look into your Cranio-dental and Skeletal Asymmetry© issues (CDSA©). Infact you may be suffering from CDSA and NOT FM or FMS! Testimonial from a recovering 'Fibromyalgia' patient"About 19 years ago I began to feel very off. I was eleven and I was shattered. I didn't look how an eleven-year-old ought to look. I also didn't understand why I felt that way. I just knew I was in the most incredible amount of pain something wasn't right. It was not until I turned fifteen that the problems escalated into severe vertigo and fatigue but because everyone was so concentrated on the weight around my middle (I weighed 60kg and measured 178cm at this time but the weight on my stomach was a major concern.) Friday, November 20. 2015Explaining the concept of Cranio Dental & Skeletal Symmetry™ - How your jaw causes hip mis-alignment![]() "Let me reject all the received opinions and know only what I can with the power of my own mind. Let me try to construct assiduously from the base up the scaffolding of my thought on the subject”. A subject too vast, too controversial, too confrontational and too challenging. I have been researching the subject of Cranio Dental and Skeletal Symmetry™ (CDSS) ever since I first managed to help a patient suffering from severe migraines, which had hospitalised her for the previous 6 months - some 35 years ago. I was able to use my fresh university education to align her amalgam restorations so that she could bite more correctly. She previously had all her molar teeth - all 20 of them filled under general anaesthesia which unfortunately had disrupted her bite. Her migraines resolved over one weekend. She never got the migraines again, and went on to have a family and excelled at work to become a senior banker in the city of London.
And worst of all: This poor management of patients with jaw problems stem from various pricipals underpinning dentistry. In orthodontics, we have Dr. Edward Hartley Angle (June 1, 1855 – August 11, 1930) who was an American ![]() The fundamentals of this classification are described as:
Superimposed on these principals is, the belief that the European face is more evolved with his retrognathic jaws but the dentoalveolar ratio has not kept up with this "highly evolved species". This implies that modern societies have too many teeth and not enough bone to accommodate the teeth justifying the extraction of teeth to balance out this disproportion. This thinking together with Dr Angle's classification gave rise to the concept of "Dento-alveolar disproportion". So the aim has been to reduce the number of teeth to attain a class I occlusion in maximal intercuspation no matter where it sits under the cranium. This erroneous understanding has lead to absolutely horrendous decisions which have, according to my experience, produced devastating consequences upon millions of people right around the world. The acceptance of this thinking and making it mainstream teaching in dental schools has created a great deal of chronic sickness in society. Angle described his principals in 1890 - some 130 years ago. Whilst not taking away anything from Angle and continuing to respect his position in the history of dentistry and orthodontics, it is imperative that we make drastic changes and upgrade our understanding of occlusion and its ramifications throughout our body. Current (and soon to be obsolete) orthodontic practice takes the jaws backwards while they should be developing forwards. Children are further given retainers to hold the jaws in this position preventing further forward growth. Thousands end up with chronic illnesses because of the gross interference with the overall balance of the head upon the neck. Angles classification which is restricted to the teeth only, and treatment based on trying to bring everyone into a class I relationship is deeply flawed, as it does not take account of:
This extensive list may be too far fetched for an orthodontist to accept but the implications of fiddling with the dental complex have widespread ramifications involving the whole of the skeleton and it is imperative that the starting point be properly and fully assessed. The diagnosis and treatment based on just the original Angles' classification which underpins orthodontics has lead to a great deal of chronic sickness in society with hundreds of thousands suffering the ill effects in every country where such treatment is carried out. The stark reality of the abysmal orthodontic specialist training is apparent in this comment I received today through one of my patients who visited another orthodontist for a second opinion: "I'm not sure who you saw in London but as there is no scientific evidence behind what you have been told. This will mean that you are very likely to undergo a very long uncomfortable and expensive process that will not work. I would not want that for you and therefore would not want to be involved in any such treatment. There is no evidence that extractions can cause ill effects and no evidence that orthodontics has any effect on the TMJ. There is also no evidence of any link with ME......" The orthodontists need to be woken up from their slumber. It appears that complete spatial symmetry of the dental complex, relative to the skull, is of the utmost importance. Symmetry implies left-right mirror image equality, correct proportions anteroposteriorly, and vertically. Correct inter arch occlusion of both arches. It is actually a 3-dimensional craniomandibular harmony and balance, versus just the one-dimensional implication of the word symmetry. Minute departures from symmetry can lead to illness. An analogy I often use is that our bodies are as finely tuned as a finely made Swiss clock. If anything goes even slightly wrong with the mechanism, it will not give the correct time. Our body is exactly the same. Minute departures lead to symptoms. In this image, I have shown the basic disturbance in our cranium in terms of rotating cogs. ![]() When the cerebellum lifts up on one side, a little-known fact but easily demonstrable, it disturbs the symmetry of the cerebellum and the blood flow through the vertebral artery because the Atlas vertebra also rotates forwards on the affected side. This can cause all kinds of movement disorders and may also affect the eyes. Please read my article on Visual snow. The hypoglossal nerve which innervates the tongue also emanates from the occipital bone close to the occipital condyles. Any asymmetry here can also potentially affect speech and swallowing. Some medical syndromes chiefly cerebellar ataxia, have these groups of symptoms occurring together namely, gait disorder, eye problems, speech, and swallowing issues. No pill can ever fix that so patients get pigeonholed into syndromes or medical conundrums. Dr Siegfried Trefzer writes: "In my understanding Ataxia itself is a term used for a group of disorders that affects coordination, postural balance, speech, most voluntary movements such as gripping and the selective engagement of muscle groups but also automated movements e.g. the ability to swallow, to walk etc. At some stage, my patient was simultaneously affected by all of these dysfunctions to a various degree." Any asymmetry of the Atlas makes the occiput asymmetric and hence the blood flow through the vertebral artery which traverses the Atlas to the cerebellum diminishes causing numerous symptoms like a loss of fine motor control, tremors and gait dysfunction. This worsens over time as the patient gets older and the arteries also start furring up. Studies with Doppler ultrasound have established this blood perfusion discrepancy but the neurologists have failed to establish the Atlas-Occipital link affecting cerebellar function. In this article please read the section under “Vertebral artery anatomical considerations”: They have observed the discrepancy naming it “VBI: Vertebro Basilar Insufficiency”. Atlas asymmetry also seriously affects cranial drainage via the Internal Jugular Veins (IJV). Please read an extensive article under Obstruction of the Internal Jugular veins & Atlas Asymmetry on this website. It is my contention that this is what starts a chain reaction resulting in various deficits in cerebellar function one of which is gait dysfunction or cerebellar ataxia and tremors (some very violent), especially in ‘MS’ patients. These tremors stop instantly on the correct positioning of the jaws while the patients have been told that they have suffered permanent neurological damage through the "demyelination process". This must be the quintessential explanation as attending to the asymmetry soon relieves the symptoms in those where the problem is of short standing. In others, it improves the gait while yet in others it stops further deterioration. This is an excerpt from my 2009 article on Atlas asymmetry: "The cranium becomes unlevel leading to an asymmetry of the eyes and the back of the head called the occiput which physically alters the shape of the cerebellum leading to problems with fine motor control of the skeletal muscles and also causing problems like dyslexia. According to some scientific research, Dyslexia appears to be centred in the cerebellum Apart from the Hypoglossal nerve a number of other important nerves also get affected: 1. The Vagus and the Cervical Sympathetic chain: The effects of asymmetry here can affect the function of many organs in the body, leading to digestive and blood pressure problems. 2. The Phrenic nerve: This nerve supplies the diaphragm. Disturbances here can lead to a reduced breathing capacity. After Atlas correction, we have seen an immediate improvement in the patient's breathing capacity in a majority of cases which is an absolutely phenomenal finding. Our governing bodies might not like it, but the dentist is responsible for the welfare of his patients. If a dentist or a colleagues' treatment of the dental complex has brought about the illness like neck pain the dentist can neither pass it to the medics nor to a chiropractor, who both do not have any chance of fixing such a problem. As a matter of record, repeated high-velocity adjustments are extremely detrimental to the neck. Only palliative massage of the neck muscles is an acceptable symptomatic alternative treatment. Experience shows that the primary cause is in the mouth and the secondary lesion is in the neck. The primary needs treatment. The secondary takes care of itself. A patient reporting that she has completely recovered from her terrible neck pains also adds: "I have met such a wide range of patients with such a variety of problems in the waiting room, and it is extraordinary that a simple adjustment of the position of the jaw can have such a dramatic effect on the function of the whole body. I am a witness to the efficacy of your programme and have recommended you countless times to friends and acquaintances with chronic problems." A slight deviation from perfect symmetry affects our bodies like a badly balanced car tire which eventually shows wear on one edge needing replacement - synonymous to one needing a hip replacement at age 70! This concept of absolute symmetry is hard to fathom when one sees so many variations between individuals. The graphs below are a true record of a patient who was previously described as possibly suffering from ME or CFS or FM or MS by various medical consultants. The body starts recovering very rapidly with symmetry-based interventions. Tens of thousands had previously been spent on medical care with absolutely no resolution and the patient had gotten rapidly bed bound. ![]() ![]() She was an Angles' Class II and two of her upper premolar teeth had previously been extracted to drag her upper teeth and jaw back to meet a smaller lower jaw! This created a serious imbalance of the head on the neck, which started reacting causing pain and numerous spiralling symptoms throughout the body. The patient recovered completely and went on to get a first-class maths degree at University. She was bedridden for almost a year before coming for treatment. Again, I must emphasise that these patients can only be helped through dentistry. Some patients present with some 40 symptoms. Clusters of such symptoms are selected to invent different illnesses e.g. Fibromyalgia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Multiple Sclerosis. There is no merit in this system as no healing is available. In terms of examining such patients a visit to the Chiropractor or an osteopath will nearly always show that one leg is clinically shorter than the other. The patients also have numerous pains around their head and neck muscles especially when the suboccipital muscles and the mastoid insertion of the Sterno-mastoid muscles are palpated. Internally the Lateral Pterygoid muscle in the mouth is extremely painful. Careful! You are a dentist. You cannot involve yourself in such matters. We shall expel you and erase your name from the register, says the governing body! You are at high risk of being struck off! When all you are doing is fulfilling the requirements of the 'Hippocratic Oath' that you swore to. Here is the dilemma. Either the governing body decides to start working totally altruistically and without compunction and allows dentists to do what they must for patient care or continue to let lose the patients upon the medical profession who will probably inject steroids and prescribe medications for symptomatic relief for the rest of the lives of the patients. The existing oversight of medicine and dentistry is actually preventing proper patient care and perpetuating disease and bankruptcy upon the whole of society. The remit of the triad of the medical council, dental council, and the medical defence establishments needs considerable revision through urgent government intervention if it really wants to care for the public and prevent wholesale looting under cover of the NHS. The other challenges facing someone like me are the hospital consultants who almost never find anything wrong with a patients jaws no matter how much pain or dysfunction the patient presents with and patients are misled into going back to their medical practitioners. I have many such reports. Here are the experiences of some recent patients: From: S M Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018, 19:01 Subject: Jaw issues Dear Dr Amir, I am a very fed up person. I have been sent round & round the mulberry bush for 20 years following an extraction. In the last year, however, the pain has gotten really bad and I have pain all along the right side of my body at every joint. I went to a private Harley St dr who and for the first time experienced being treated like I was a human! Below is my OPG. He thinks it looks like my jaw is very much dislocated and he had never seen anything like it. I have been telling GPs dentists, max fax people for years I am having difficulty speaking, eating & it feels as if my face is moving to the left. Nobody listened till now. However, I had to then be referred back to the NHS as the specialist treatment was too expensive. They again fobbed me off etc etc. Just received this from Belgium: Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2019 15:53 Subject: Request appointment (coming from abroad) "Dear Dr Amir, My name is L........, I am 32 and I live in Belgium. I am writing to you because I found your website through a community of people with TMJ dysfunctions. I have been having a lot of the symptoms listed on your website, and the things are getting worse every year. The doctors keep telling me it’s my anxiety and they do not even bother to try to find the real causes. I have had a lot of works in my mouth, ...................." The hospital consultants occupy a unique place in society. They are believed. Even when they fob off patients almost all the time. In one breath they say nothing abnormal found and in the next breath, they tell the same patients to use palliative measures like soft diet, hot compresses, painkillers, physiotherapy, drugs, and useless splints. It is a sorry state of affairs out there. Remember even a millimetre of asymmetry can cause serious problems, like hundreds of my patients can testify but here 8 extracted teeth, jaw clicking, limited mouth opening, the deviation on opening, intense pain in muscles all around the head and neck is accepted as normal! Two companies come to mind. One is Myotronics in Seattle, USA and the other Biopak in Milwaukee, USA. They both supply some sophisticated equipment which can precisely tell the displacement of the jaws and the tension around all the muscles around the head and neck. I think our hospitals need to equip themselves with these pieces of equipment so that patients are not misled in error, design or negligence. Each year, the neck will continue to deteriorate and your taxes can keep filling the bottomless NHS pit. The patients often have difficulty turning the neck and the breathing is almost always suboptimal giving rise to fatigue and numerous organic problems throughout the body. Bringing about symmetry in the front of the mouth aligns the Atlas vertebra. The Atlas vertebra occupies a unique place in the recent history of treatments of skeletal asymmetries. AtlasPROfilax® is a Swiss technique developed by Monsignor Rene Schumperlii that uses strategic and precisely targeted mechanical vibrations and pressure to the short muscles – suboccipital muscles – of the neck. In this way, the atlas is allowed to embed correctly in the condylar facets of the occiput. A German MRI and 3D CAT scan investigations have shown that 98 percent of a healthy, modern population sample had atlas malrotation and that the AtlasPROfilax® procedure was corrective for this condition. In another study of 350 patients using an iliac crest, inclinometer indicated that the AtlasPROfilax procedure corrects pelvic misalignment and functional leg length discrepancy. It immediately corrects the short leg phenomenon. This would abate back pain, hip pains, sciatic nerve pains, numbness etc for a majority of the patients. If we are talking about MS patients, you can just imagine the benefit many would experience from this one PHYSICAL correction. Claiming that the previous hip pains were the consequence of demyelination and "descending pathways damage from brain lesions" becomes very questionable. If such were the case, the patients would never experience immediate and dramatic relief. However, correcting the Atlas does not correct the discrepancy in the mouth, which is a counterbalance for the Atlas rotation and vice versa. The Atlas soon goes out of synch again in most cases. Correcting the teeth helps correct the Atlas which it does automatically as the symmetry in the front of the mouth improves. The required change in the jaw is often much greater and needs long-term treatment while attempts to correct the Atlas alone does not hold in the presence of most dental asymmetries. "Last week when we were there Dr Amir had some 4th stage appliances to fit. As soon as they were fitted my wife could suddenly raise her arms. She could barely lift her hands an inch before that. She was also able to lift both her legs a couple of inches. This was startling. I ran to the waiting room to get my friend to come in and see this miracle. During that night I felt my wife pulling me towards her telling me that she is getting feeling back in her body. Her legs started moving. I was flabbergasted and phoned my son at 2.00 AM to come over and see movement in his mothers' arms and legs for the first time in 8 years!" Moving on from the Atlas to the hips and trying to answer many questions I receive, please visualise the following: I want you to imagine a perfectly shaped head for example that belonging to one of the great athletes like Usain Bolt or Mark Spitz (a swimming legend). If such a head was balanced on a spike it would have to sit on a certain place on the spike to balance. If we now go and extract just one small tooth out of the patient's mouth that head is not going to balance anymore and will need to be repositioned on the spike. Patients have usually had a lot more dental extractions, congenitally missing teeth, and underdeveloped jaws all affecting the balance of the head on this imaginary spike. In life, it is not a spike but our neck vertebrae which support the head. These vertebrae will have to compensate to balance the head. ![]() The body is built to gain symmetry all the time. The brain and other reflex mechanisms built into our neurology do not like the vertebral misalignment in the neck and contract various muscles to straighten the vertebrae and the head. Since the damage is permanent the messages to the muscles to contract are endless. Fatigue and pain set in. Over a long period the discs bulge, spurs grow, nerves, veins, arteries get constricted and a whole host of problems like chronic neck pain and a frozen shoulder etc. develop. THESE ARE SIMPLER PROBLEMS. More serious problems develop if left untreated. These can include Spinal stenosis, Chiari malformations, Cranio Cervical Instability with Atlanto Axial Instability (CCI/AAI) resulting in a 'sinking head' causing brainstem compression with its very serious ramifications in terms of erratic heart rate, extreme dizziness, extreme breathing difficulty, and often complete paralysis. Damage to the jaws is not from a single tooth extraction. It can be from a number of teeth extracted for various reasons which cause far bigger distortions of the neck. Extracting premolar teeth, conducting constrictive orthodontics, wearing retainers preventing jaw growth, extracting wisdom teeth all contribute to the creation of serious damage to the cranial balance on the neck vertebrae. Poor development of the jaws due to dietary causes and genetically missing teeth also eventually cause serious health issues. While I am on the subject, genetically missing teeth have to be replaced with ideally implants, not the teeth dragged around to close the spaces constricting the jaws. The neck is part of the rest of the spine. The rest of the spine cannot let its top end to rotate in one direction. The lower end distorts in the opposite direction to balance the spine. Its lower end is connected to the hips. The distortion of the lower spine causes the hips to rotate and give rise to what is called a clinical short leg. The consequence is lower back pain, hip pain, and sciatic nerve pain. Please note that the effect of occlusal irregularities on hip inclination is present a 100% of the time and thus cannot be ignored by the dentist.In other words, a slight distortion in the mouth caused developmentally or iatrogenically, by the dentist starts damaging the lower back and hips of the patient. Should the patient be sent to the medics, orthopaedic surgeons, chiropractors or the dentist should be responsible for the calamity visited upon the patient? ![]() Ironically, it does not even occur to the patient or the dentist that the back pain started because of the dental interventions. The patient obviously seeks help from the medical profession and gets condemned to lifelong chronic back pain which no one can fix. Dr. Mercola says: "There is evidence that many standard treatments for back pain — surgery, spinal injections, and painkillers — are often ineffective and can even worsen and prolong the problem... Some research suggests that 1 in 5 patients who have surgery for back pain end up having more surgery. An estimated 80 per cent of Americans will suffer from chronic back pain at some point in life. Some 25-30 per cent end up struggling with persistent or chronic back pain, leading many to resort to prescription painkillers, expensive steroid shots, or even multiple surgeries. Recent data shows that back pain is increasingly being treated with addictive drugs and diagnostic exams that expose patients to potentially unnecessary and dangerous levels of radiation. These treatments do not cure back pain—they only treat your symptoms." Ever wondered why we have so many millions chronically sick; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revised January 2021©2015 -2021 Dr. M. Amir. All rights reserved.
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