The Cause of MS
We see the destruction of the myelin sheath as a symptom rather than the cause of MS.
So what is the underlying cause?
Most people with MS find that their symptoms are worse after a period of stress. Also, first symptoms very often come on during or just after a stressful time. The same is true for relapses and worsening of symptoms. Stress plays a large part in MS whatever your doctor may say.
But there is more to MS than just stress.... When you get stressed and stay stressed the physical site of that stress gets tense. With the MS patients I work with that site tends to be the neck. Years of unrelieved tension in the neck causes some nerves to give up working and what you don’t use you lose. To say that MS is a tense neck is an over-simplification but I have yet to meet an MS patient who hasn’t got a chronically stiff neck.
Many patients that come to see us have been to a massage therapist, or equivalent, but that is not the way to relieve this problem.
"You have to cure the cause, not just the symptoms." - click here to read Patrick's story
“I felt a difference soon after seeing John. ...the awful stiff pain in my shoulders and neck as if I was carrying something all the time - that went and my muscles became less rigid. I stopped twitching for good. When I did the drug trial for two years the twitching was better, but it only lasted as long as I kept taking the drug. Now it’s stopped permanently. ... I definitely haven’t got MS now.” - click here to read Clare’s story
