Wednesday, May 14. 2014Autism/Learning Difficulties/OCD and Behavioural problems
Read how Tom best was transformed from a seriously affected OCD sufferer to a successful businessman and a professional cricket player. The reasons for his school-age problems will surprise you...
"I attended Dr. Amir's office in December 2002. At the time my history was that I was attending a special boarding school/college for people with learning disabilities. I was also very aggressive and had at that time been suspended from school for throwing a table at the teacher. I also had many obsessions like I would take stuff belonging to other people as if it was mine. I used to collect footballs, football stickers and endless paraphernalia to do with football much of it was to occupy myself as I could not socialise because I got bullied because of my bad speech which people said was gibberish and it was incomprehensible but at the time I could not do anything about it. I used to hug friends as a way to say 'bye' although it was very strange. I could not stop myself and people now tell me that it was weird the way I carried on. I used to get blamed for all sorts of things and used to get bullied a lot. At my consultation, Dr. Amir noted that I had serious orthodontic and jaw problems and said that my behaviour was largely due to my dental problems. He explained to my mother that my jaw problem did not allow my head to be oxygenated properly and nor did my cerebrospinal fluid flow sufficiently. He suggested corrective measures. I soon had my first dental appliance. I went to college to resume my education. At the end of the first day my mum got a call from the college to find out if she had bribed me as my behaviour had transformed overnight. The very first dental appliance I received from Dr. Amir had a huge impact on my wellbeing. In that time that I had been suspended I had been seeing Dr. Amir so when I got back to college I had to do an NVQ in horticulture and I only had 5 weeks to do it but I passed and that sort of thing would have never happened if I had not seen Dr Amir. Now many years later I am self-sufficient. I have my own web site tombestcraft.com. I learnt a lot more at an amazing college I went to called Ruskin Mill. As well as that I am now playing for the England international disability cricket team this is because of hard work and support from friends and my family and Dr. Amir who all helped change my life Now looking at life from a perspective where I am aware of my faculties and surroundings I note how impossible it was for me to do anything before. My mind just could not function correctly. I was all confused and single minded. I have been at the other side where life was all doom and gloom but I was not aware of it. I could not read or write. Now I can do both. I am nearly 30 and life could not be better. Please buy my hand made slippers and rugs from my website. Please note I make these myself. Tom Best January 2014 Tom had very many issues including an autistic spectrum disorder. They all resolved. He is one of the most useful members of society now. 14 years on his star is still on the rise. He runs his own business. He has bought his own house. He plays cricket at a national level. Linguistic and attention issues and autistim Dr. Amir began his treatment upon my son, Aaron, 9 years ago. Aaron was just 6 years old at the time and had some developmental problems attributed to a lack of oxygen at birth which left him with linguistic and attention issues and being considered autistic. Since Dr. Amir examined Aaron and fitted a brace we have found Aaron to improve in energy levels and to be able to sleep well, concentrate more and has since embraced many sports. My Wife and I had no idea that simply tinkering with the jaw could have such a profound effect. Aaron still wears a brace that is frequently resized and adjusted when required. He has now flourished into a handsome strapping young man. We are so glad that we did not go down the conventional orthodontic route of pulling the upper teeth back but rather pulling the bottom jaw forward. I write this review with the utmost gratitude to Dr. Amir and his team and recommend him highly to help solve any medically undetermined issues as we clearly now believe that one's body must be treated as a whole rather than symptomatically. Aggy Akhtar. August 2018 Autism/Learning Difficulties/OCD TestimonyI discovered Dr. Amir in 2015. I was deep in the midst of BDD (Body Dysmorphia Disorder); for those who don’t know about this disorder, It’s very deeply ingrained insecurity about appearance that has a vice-like grip on your everyday life to such an extent that you feel like you’re a living freak. My ‘insecurity’ was about the shape of my jaw and as such I’d spent weeks googling ‘misaligned jaw treatment’ this is how I discovered Dr. Amir’s practice in Putney. Anyway, with regards to my BDD, that’s gone now and it’s not what I’m here to talk about. I’m here to talk about learning difficulties and Autism. During my lengthy treatment, I spent many an hour on Dr Amir’s website and was fascinated by the possibilities and what else his treatment could achieve. One testimonial, in particular, stood out, it was about an Autistic guy who had learning difficulties. He’d finished Dr Amir’s treatment and had come out the other side of it; more sociable, more empathic and a fully functioning adult able to run his own business. This testimonial really shocked and resonated with me because I, myself, have an autistic sibling. MY brother was in a terrible way circa 2016/17, he had NUMEROUS problems and numerous strange rituals too. He was unable to get dressed by himself, that job was left to my mother. If his pyjama trousers rubbed against his leg the ‘wrong’ way he demanded she start all over again. He’d scream whenever he was in the toilet claiming he was uncomfortable, he was insistent that he had to be sat ‘perfectly’. In fact, everything had to be ‘perfect’. He went through phases, one month nobody could sit next to him and the next month he was too afraid to sit down full stop. My mum would often cry and to make matters even worse every time she would approach him to talk to him about his problems he wouldn’t talk. Hassan was very hard to get a conversation out of so it was often hard to tell what exactly was wrong with him. I brought him to Dr Amir in July 2017 a month before he was due to start sixth-form at Bromley college and he was really in a bad way. Dr Amir would often observe his strange stance whereby he would walk around holding his two hands out above his head. When asked why he stood and walked in this peculiar fashion Hassan said ‘to keep the germs away’. Hassan’s venture into college was an exercise in futility and by October 2017 he’d completely dropped out, his teachers were convinced he would need care for the rest of his life. Nevertheless, we kept persevering with Dr Amir’s treatment and his advice. In time the eye bags under his eyes went, his skin began to look a healthier shade of pink, the rituals went away one by one and finally, he was able to go back to school. I was amazed at the results. Dr Amir had told me from the start of my treatment way back in 2015 that a healthy mind was all about oxygen intake. It’s been 19 or so months since Hassan began his treatment and I was both a keen observer but also sceptical from the start. I always bore in mind EXACTLY how Hassan was at the very BEGINNING of the treatment so I could compare and contrast it to what he is now. And I can definitely say that he’s far more sociable, his vocabulary has increased tenfold, he’s far more empathic then he ever was and he’s definitely a lot smarter too. In fact, contrary to what his teachers believed was possible, he’s now an aspiring chef and will be looking for full-time employment, instead of being a burden on society once his sixth-form is complete. He’s already made major strides by completing work experience at the Green Man community hub as a budding chef. ......................J. B. February 2019 Comment: The results achieved fit in with the accepted wisdom that most of these disorders are centered in the cerebellum - a key area which gets corrected by proper orthodontic interventions. An abstract Cited in Cerebellum by Mitchell J. "Cerebellar dysfunction is evident in several developmental disorders, including autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and developmental dyslexia, and damage to the cerebellum early in development can have long-term effects on movement, cognition, and affective regulation. Early cerebellar damage is often associated with poorer outcomes than cerebellar damage in adulthood, suggesting that the cerebellum is particularly important during development. Differences in cerebellar development and/or early cerebellar damage could impact a wide range of behaviours via the closed-loop circuits connecting the cerebellum with multiple cerebral cortical regions. Based on these anatomical circuits, behavioural outcomes should depend on which cerebro-cerebellar circuits are affected. Here, we briefly review cerebellar structural and functional differences in autism, ADHD, and developmental dyslexia, and discuss clinical outcomes following pediatric cerebellar damage. These data confirm the prediction that abnormalities in different cerebellar subregions produce behavioural symptoms related to the functional disruption of specific cerebro-cerebellar circuits. These circuits might also be crucial to structural brain development, as peri-natal cerebellar lesions have been associated with impaired growth of the contralateral cerebral cortex. The specific contribution of the cerebellum to typical development may, therefore, involve the optimization of both the structure and function of cerebro-cerebellar circuits underlying skill acquisition in multiple domains; when this process is disrupted, particularly in early development, there could be long-term alterations of these neural circuits, with significant impacts on behaviour." Reviewed January 2021 ©2014 -2021 Dr M. Amir. All rights reserved. |
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