Mary is one of around 120,000 Britons who suffer from post-polio syndrome. Despite the numbers affected, very few doctors know much about it.They’ve assumed, like most of us, that as the polio virus itself has now been eradicated in this country, it is a health concern of the past.But the long-term effects of the disease — rife in the UK in the Fifties — can be as debilitating as the disease in its early stages.
Post-polio syndrome is the name for a collection of incurable symptoms — including muscle wastage, muscle and joint pain, and mental and physical fatigue — common to many who have suffered from the full-blown disease.
When the symptoms recur, it may be 20-40 years after the initial disease. Circulation may be impaired and breathing can become difficult due to weakening chest muscles.
Everyday life becomes difficult — even muscles not weakened by the polio become fatigued. >>>>> CLICK here for more …..
Sreeram V Ramagopalan and colleagues – BMJ; 21 December 2007:
An analysis of the Harry Potter novels of J K Rowling suggests that MAGIC shows strong EVIDENCE of HERITABILITY. Specific magical gifts, such as the ability to speak to snakes, predict the future, and change hair colour, all seem heritable.
THE LEGEND OF CAMELFORD: MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF A WATER POLLUTION ACCIDENT Now why on earth this was investigated by a psychiatrist and reported in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research is way beyond ME but with professor W apparently everything is possible.
Just read on in amazement.
“Whatever the causes, cognitive symptoms came to dominate the Lowermoor clinical picture, especially memory loss, poor concentration, plus mental and physical fatigue. The problem with such symptoms is that they are subjective and difficult to verify without the subject’s awareness that verification is taking place. Primary care and community studies have established that these symptoms are both common and associated with psychological distress and psychiatric disorder [8-I 1 ].
Furthermore, the image of evoked potentials as entirely ‘objective’ may be confusing. Like most physiological measures they are influenced by such things as anxiety and hyperventilation [20] as well as being open to deliberate deception.
Future investigations of environmental incidents should recall that social and cultural factors are as important as medical ones.”
The Daily Mail has now elected to expose the lethal cover-up of what was done to the residents of Camelford in Cornwall in one of Britain’s worst health scandals that took place in July 1988.
One of the primary architects of this lethal cover-up was psychiatrist Professor Simon Wessely (s.wessely@iop.kcl.ac.uk ), notorious for his equally scandalous cover-ups of the biomedical plight of Gulf War Veterans and ME/CFS labelled patients.
In the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Vol 39, No 1. pp.1 9. 1995, Wessely together with his colleague Anthony David, published a paper entitled The Legend Of Camelford : Medical Consequences Of A Water Pollution Accident (http://tinyurl.com/3a4fev ).
This is a very interesting piece of info and the first time I see and hear Dr Charles Shepherd. He is joined by a GP who clearly has NO IDEA what ME is so listen carefully to what Dr Shepherd says to her at the end ……..
“The damaging power of the psychiatrists that has no basis in any credible science has grown exponentially down these years to become a global epidemic.Psychiatry is the one branch of medicine that never has to prove its case and yet is permitted to wreak havoc on the lives of those that it most unjustifiably targets.We give you as but one example, the case of what was done to young Ean Procter (http://tinyurl.com/2y9oev ) as recounted by his Mum that is a matter of public record on the Isle of Man and everywhere else.
This semi-paralysed eleven year old ME/CFS labelled child was deliberately thrown into a swimming pool by the psychiatrists with no floating aids to see if he would sink or swim, to ascertain whether his paralysis was genuine or not. This is what these psychiatrists do to children in their atrocious financial championing of ’somatoform disorders’.
Ean sank and had to be rescued from the bottom of the pool. These people nearly killed this child in an attempt to try to prove their risible ’somatoform disorders’ point. This is what the psychiatrists do to ME/CFS labelled children in Britain, whether their parents approve or not. The cases are legion and still occurring today in one form or another right around the world as I write this to you now.” >>>>> CLICK here for more …..
Keira Knightley’s career went white hot, Antony Gormley led a naked assault on the rooftops of London, while Radiohead made their best album in 10 years – and gave it away. But what else will we remember 2007 for? >>>>> CLICK here to find out …..
In a recent lecture Professor Hooper said the following very interesting things:
The published NICE Guideline shows some changes in tone, but many concerns still remain, mainly that the biomedical features of the illness, as described in some 4,000 published peer-reviewed papers, have been totally ignored.
The document still has reference to ‘unhelpful beliefs’, and ‘the relationship between thoughts, feelings, behaviours and symptoms and the distinction between causal and perpetuating factors’.
CBT/GET are still recommended as proven and effective treatment despite attention being drawn to the seriously flawed data on which these are recommended.In fact Professor David Richards in the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies Magazine of March 2007 has said:
“Most CBT trials are poorly executed;quality thresholds for RCTs in NICE guidelines are notoriously low, allowing the results of meta-analyses of small poor quality studies to direct policy.” >>>>> CLICK here for more …..
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