Essential Tremor coming from the neck? The connection to Cervical Dysstructure

[Music] hi my name is Dr Ross Hauser welcome to the Hauser next Center here in Fort Myers Florida perhaps the most common or one of the most common neurologic conditions that we've all seen as Tremor you know and we've all been at restaurants or had older relatives who started to shake their head or you know they would go reach for something and then all of a sudden they would get tremulous fortunately I don't have Tremors except when my wife tells me we gotta talk who who talk about talk about Tremors uh you know but essential tremor basically means the doctors don't know what's causing it and you guys know from Hauser's law is if a physician or somebody has a symptom disease disorder condition and nobody knows the cause if you follow the neurology the neurology will normally lead to ligamentous cervical instability so you might say well how does that relate to brain diseases or if somebody has Parkinson's Alzheimer's or Tremors and the those two conditions are associated with various Tremors and they can even have essential tremor if the brain is having a struggle then what's the closest joint to the brain that's going to be the upper cervical region and upper cervical instability and destruction of the neck curve can lead to jugular vein compression which we'll talk about and obviously if somebody's brain pressure gets high enough anything in the brain can go Haywire now if you want to know does somebody have an essential tremor and this says neurologic disorder that causes involuntary and rhythmic shaking which most affects the hands you could have somebody Draw Something Like recently I had somebody who I suspected had Parkinson's disease so I had them write something because with Parkinson's disease you tend to take smaller steps and you have micrographia which means you write very small instead of writing the normal amount this person is just trying to make this but it looks like that so that's what happens with an essential tremor essential tremors one of the most common movement disorders and is typically marked by Tremor in the upper limbs but also may involve the head voice lower Limbs and trunk it affects two percent of the population so it's you know obviously a very common disorder 50 37 percent are females It's associated with a lot of other medical conditions and one of the main ones is dystonia so dystonia is where there's a tension in the neck somebody might say well are there any clues that my Tremor that nobody knows the cause is from the neck well do you have clicking popping grinding in the neck do you need to get chiropractic care to feel better is there other signs or symptoms associated with cervical instability such as tinnitus migraine tension headache ringing in the ears vertigo digestive problems all the other things head pressure that I talk about in other videos now the most common treatments are substances that calm the nervous system down and we're going to talk about these substances normally affect the Gaba system so keep that in mind the Gaba system which we'll talk about later about 40 percent of people who get on Med medications for essential tremor they get off of them within two years because they don't work as well or they don't work now the question is if a medication is working and then all of a sudden it stops working what's the cause of that because I want you just to think about that so if you're if you got on a medication even if it's a diabetic medication or any medication for a condition and now it's not working why is it not working well I would say the reason why it's not working anymore is that your condition is Progressive so what condition would be Progressive that could affect the brain I would say that's going to be intracranial hypertension High brain pressure because if somebody isn't working on their neck curve getting their neck curve better or if they got clicking popping grinding in the neck and you're not doing something to try to stabilize the neck like exercises or Prolotherapy then like a screw that's loose on a hinge every time you open and close the door the hinge gets looser so the next screw gets loose then that hinge gets loose then the next hinge gets loose now the door is jingling all over the place so much like if you have tension in your neck up here and you don't do something about it that's going to resolve the instability well it's going to keep progressing the intracranial hypertension is going to progress the increase in brain pressure is going to progress and then there's worse and worse Tremor in medical school we used to call Propranolol end it all you know and I'm not I'm not saying that it's not an effective medication for certain things it's just that Propranolol Inderal beta blockers they block the adrenaline system they decrease sympathetic hyperactivity so that part's good but we we used to in medical school called and end it all because you just usually get kind of depressed from it because your pulse rate always stays low so imagine if you could never raise your pulse rate you know it means whether you're at a game or you're getting excited or you're walking or you're exercising and it slows your metabolism down which again would be why it probably helps uh essential tremor because essential tremor or almost any medical condition when a person is under stress or they feel a lot of stress the condition gets worse so if you're on something that limits your heart rate ability to go up and it suppresses the central nervous system well yeah the Tremor might get better but how are is the rest of your life you know are you more depressed you know so Tremor is an involuntary is involunteering and rhythmic it's it's basically always pathologic it means that there's something wrong it's a chronic progressive neurologic disease whose main symptom is Tremor which is typically postural and kinetic which we'll talk about so almost all Tremors and here we're talking about essential tremor where you don't know the cause like uh like in Parkinson's you get a pill rolling you get a pill rolling Tremor which is different than essential tremor so basically essential tremor 95 in the hands 34 in the head 30 can be the tongue you can get Tremors in the tongue Tremor in the voice Tremor in the chin the face the Torso it increases with age seven percent of people over the age of 65 have essential tremor 11 over the age of 80. It's associated with a lot of other symptoms including cognitive decline apathy depression anxiety sensory issues you can have hypersensitive hearing smell you can have insomnia many people believe it's neurodegenerative just like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's where there's certain parts of the brain that are degenerative meaning that there's nerve cells that have been destroyed there's atrophy in the brain you see that a lot with essential tremor and like I said 30 percent of pharmaceutical treatments are completely ineffective Propranolol is about 50 effective but by two years the discontinue rate is 40 percent you know there there's different ways to characterize it resting Tremor means I'm sitting here and I'm going like this action Tremors you're starting you're trying to do something like you're trying to feed yourself you might see at a restaurant where somebody's trying to feed themselves postural Tremors Tremor that is present while voluntarily maintaining a position Against Gravity kinetic Tremor that occurs with any voluntary movement and again essential tremor means the doctors essentially don't know what is causing the Tremor and by Hauser's law uh if you follow the neurology the neurology will lead to ligamentous Joint instability and when the brain's affected that normally involves the neck so when you do brain Imaging what is it show an essential tremor neurolog neural Imaging techniques in essential tremor give insight into the pathophysiology it indicates the involvement of the cerebellum as the most consistent finding specifically there's hyperactivity in the cerebellum so we'll obviously talk about this cerebellum there's other findings in the motor tracks the motor track is just what controls motor movement in the human body normally most Studies have shown a decrease in gray and white matter volume in the cerebellum in the brain the gray matter is basically the DNA the cell bodies the uh white matter is the axons or uh yeah the axons are basically what bring the sensory information to the brain the supplemental motor area the medial pre-motor cortex of the brain actually increases in Gray matter and activity and often correlates with Tremor activity so basically Tremor is in summary is caused by an injury or a dysfunction of the cerebellum and the cerebellum is what inhibits or fine-tunes motor activity which we'll talk about I'm going to show some quick slides here I'd really encourage anybody who's interested in more detail about the role of the cerebellum and Tremor and this just goes through the various motor tracks and if you'll see that the cerebellar changes in essential tremor are similar to the cerebellar changes in Parkinson's disease which are somewhat similar to the cerebral changes in dystonic Tremor somebody who has tension in the neck and then has a tremor again the dystonia or the tension in the neck causing the neck and the head to move because one could see where if there's abnormal muscle tension in the neck so say you always felt tension on the right side of the neck you could see where you know you might be moving your neck subtly subtly subtly and because ligamentous cervical instability is a progressive disorder for instance somebody hits their head they injure some ligaments in the back of the neck obviously those segments are loose then the force to hold your head up is going to go to the next vertebral segments so it ends up progressing progressing now I just put this in here so we talked about drug treatment for essential tremor and there's neurosurgeons that put in these deep brain stimulators so for very very Advanced Parkinson's really Advanced Tremors doctors will put in probes and you could see where the neural stimulator is placed in the chest to basically inhibit the Tremor so they put them in the thalamus in different areas and I just put this for completion's sake I've never had a patient who's needed a deep brain stimulator and I'm not in saying that all the Tremor patients that we get at caring medical all improve a hundred percent but we do have a lot of people who improve a lot and some people get complete resolution of the tremors so the cerebellum is in the back of the brain that that's the part of the brain that's affected the most by it or a affected the most when they study essential tremor so there's the cerebellum you could see its relationship to the brain stem the spinal cord there so the cerebellum contains only 10 percent of the brain volume but it contains 50 80 percent of the neurons of the brain it is part of the brain that affects motion it modifies motor commands like for instance you want to walk you want to stand up you want to move making the movements more accurate so it's involved in coordinating fine movements of the body you might say the cerebellum is similar to the vagus nerve in the body you've heard me say the vagus nerve is primarily inhibitory meaning that it slows the heart rate down slows the body down so the body can restore recover regenerate so the cerebellum fine-tunes motor movements like learning to hit a golf ball or baseball or even when a kid's trying to write like you don't realize you know how coordinated writing is or a lot of the tasks that we all do working on the computer and so the the cerebellum like the vagus nerve is inhibitory the autonomic nervous system if the vagus nerve doesn't inhibit it you get sympathetic hyperactivity and the heart rate goes crazy you know the heart rate goes up to 170 to 200 we have patients who have vagus nerve degeneration and they get ventricular tachycardian terrible terrible things and wouldn't you agree that most people it's almost like their brains are way too active like they can't shut off the brain and you're going to learn today why people drink white people take marijuana white people uh take benzodiazepines you know they're just trying to shut off the brain and many of those things stimulate the Gaba receptors and the cerebellum when it's activated and it's healthy it activates the Gaba system to help make motion very smooth now these are some of the things that we see in the office you can see right here where this is a mcrae's line would be right here this is the opening of the brain you could see where the cerebellar tonsils this is part of the cerebellum it's it basically the brain has sagged into the whole through which the spinal cord goes and basically the Sinead scan shows that the cerebral spinal fluid is getting blocked if you look at here any sort of obstruction of the cerebral spinal fluid and the cerebral spinal fluid is is here is white so any obstruction of the cerebral spinal fluid anywhere in the neck you're going to see that the white portion here on an MRI it gets bigger and where it gets bigger often is the cerebellum and you can see on this MRI the cerebellum is just covered with white so you can imagine if you get an obstruction of the cerebral spinal fluid because of cervical destructure a breakdown of the cervical curve or upper cervical instability the primary area one of the first area that's going to be affected by it is the cerebellum and obviously if the cerebellum has too much pressure on it there's going to be dysfunction of the cerebellum then the brain isn't going to have the inhibitory input that it needs then you're going to get movement disorders some of these movement disorders can be dystonia and dystonia can be in any any limb and you can get all different kinds of Tremors and this again shows cerebellar tonsil or ectopia there so post-mortem studies in patients with essential tremor demonstrate a 30 to 40 percent loss of purkinje neuron cells the most definite evidence for purkinje cells is its major role of the cerebellar circuit in motor coordination more precisely defined as the ability to fine-tune and course correct a movement in progress so basically when they've done studies in people who died and had essential tremor the cells purkinje cells go to the cerebellar cortex and their inhibitory so they help coordinate motion so you can't just have like I want to kick my leg you know I want to kick a ball yeah when you decide you're going to kick a ball there's going to be certain muscles that are stimulated but you need other muscles inhibited right right you can't otherwise you wouldn't be able to move I know it sounds kind of weird like it's inhibitory toward motion but you get the thing if I'm gonna go like this with my biceps muscle the triceps muscle has to be inhibited you know so in the brain the part of the brain that affects that that does the inhibition is the cerebellum and it does it through the Gaba system and again these purkinje cells they go to the cerebral cortex and you've seen me show many times how intracranial hypertension it really affects the cortex so it's affecting these purkinje neuron cells and they're dying and then you end up getting motions that aren't coordinated like when you get cerebellar disease you get this thing called Ataxia and and the limb the limb just goes like this or sometimes when you do finger to nose testing the person goes like this and those are signs that you have in coordination of fine motor movement another thing is this you know can you do this and if you can't do this very well you might be starting to get cerebellar problems gamma aminobutyric acid is Gaba gabit efficiency is associated with a lot of diseases depression insomnia alcohol dependence anxiety and panic uh there's two different kinds of Gaba receptors Alpha and beta basically they affect the chloride channel in the brain Gaba acts as an inhibitory manner it is a switch mediated by the chloride cation transporter expression in the brain it's an amino acid that functions as the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter for the central nervous system it functions to reduce neuronal excitability by inhibiting nerve transmission in the brain this is important fast inhibitory neurotransmission is mediated primarily by the ionotropic subtype meaning stimulatory of the Gaba receptor subtype a gabinergic neurons are located in the hippocampus thalmus basal ganglion hypothalamus brain stem cerebellum the cerebellar stimulation increases Gaba concentrations that's kind of a key point the most definitive evidence for purkinje cells a major role of the cerebellar circuit in motor coordination which I said before now this is a really interesting point most of the things that people take alcohol benzodiazepine barbiturates Gaba hydroxybutyrate which was known as the date rate drug because it was so good to get a person's sleep that it could knock you out Lyrica and gabapentin and then nowadays in anesthesia especially in in surgery centers they use propofol propofol those all stimulate the Gaba system so if you think about it like why do people drink excessively or why do people get addicted to benzodiazepine it used to be that people would take a lot of barbiturates um then we have so many people on Lyrica and Gabapentin right you probably a lot of people watching this so there has to be something with the Gaba system so there's something with the Gaba system because these drugs work on the Gaba system so the Gaba system is the inhibitory part of the brain you know the the the so when you stimulate this cerebellum when you stimulate the cerebellum it increases the Gaba in the brain and then you get the inhibition and the brain gets more restful right these things like why do you why do people drink you know like why do the people drink because they the brain needs a rust why do people take valium or uh Xanax or clonazepam why are people taking Gabapentin or Lyrica because the nervous system is just going crazy right somebody has a Tremor the brain's going crazy why is the brain going crazy probably because the cereal bones getting destroyed in other parts of the brain are getting destroyed when we say destroy that means neurodegenerative and because it's a progressive disorder you don't have cases where somebody has an essential tremor typically or they're getting Parkinson's disease and then all of a sudden it goes into remission like we all know people like it gets worse and it gets worse and it gets worse why because the underlying destruction of the brain is getting worse why because the jugular veins are getting compressed which we'll talk about well I guess we'll talk about it now so the normal jugular vein is supposed to look like that so you can imagine if somebody's sleeping and the jugular vein looks like this it's just a sliver the jugular vein is the main port to drain the brain so if that Port is closed off during sleep all that's going to happen is the brain pressures go up and one of the main reasons that we sleep is the brain is supposed to drain detoxify get rid of toxins and throughout the night the brain metabolism slows and the Brain pressure goes down so if that isn't happening what's going to happen is the brain pressure goes up brain pressure goes up as the brain pressure goes up different parts of the brain are going to be affected there can be neurodegeneration and structures such as the cerebellum and then you get Tremor and other movement disorders so the jugular veins are in their shortest position when a person has a normal ordiotic curve and and we all know that we're all addicted to cell phones and when you look down at a cell phone you stretch the ligaments in the back of the neck and you eventually lose the neck curve and you can get all kinds of crazy cockamamie curves and even a really severe reversal of the curve ultimately what happens is the jugular vein gets compressed and the cerebral spinal fluid which is the fluid that nourishes and Bays the brain it becomes like toilet water remember you've heard me say many times 70 percent of the fluid inside the brain is in the venous system the venous system drains through the internal jugular veins which sit right on the anterior cervical vertebrae so if you get ligament injury or ligament lacks and again you could hit your head you could be in a car accident you could fall down you could be in sports and get your head smashed you could be an MMA fighter we've had a few of those in the clinic you know all those things can injure the ligaments of the brain ligaments in the neck and that can eventually cause an extra movement of the vertebrae which can obstruct the jugular vein ultimately the neuron purkinje cells the various neurons of the brain actually die because of the increased pressure so basically a clogged brain toilet because of cervical destruction breakdown of the cervical curve from ligamentous cervical instability causes an increased pressure in the brain and then eventually beside just essential tremor instead of being happy joyful you end up getting brain fog you feel dumb you can get a loss of mental capacity and basically problem solving becomes a problem this basically shows how just a simple face down lifestyle can stretch the posterior cervical ligaments you get a reversal of the curve which we term cervical destructure basically the toxic metabolites accumulate in the brain and eventually you can get brain neuron cell death in the cerebellum or other places in the brain and depending on what part of the brain is affected will determine what symptoms right so somebody could have visual distortions if the part of the brain that has to do with vision they can have hearing problems if the part of the brain that has to do with hearing the part of the brain that has to do with the movement which we talked about the thalamus basal ganglion the substantia Nigro is affected in Parkinson's the cerebellums affected in essential tremors so depending on what part of the brain is affected by the increase in pressure will determine the symptoms and then if somebody has severe joint instability the treatments Prolotherapy if they just have a vertebral malalignments and a curve problem physical therapy exercise Chiropractic Care such as orthospinology or upper cervical adjusting a very low Force adjusting sometimes can have dramatic results and then what we typically find when somebody comes here is they've had a breakdown of the cervical curve and they have they have a lot of instability so a combination of some type of exercise Prolotherapy and we work very closely with various chiropractors this just shows Prolotherapy so Prolotherapy injections to the various ligaments that are involved in the instability you might say well how do you determine the instability in the office we do an upright comb beam CT scan which will show the 3D anatomy and we do a digital motion x-ray It's actually an upright motion x-ray that will show the instability and Prolotherapy is done where there's instability often the whole neck stun just because uh there's typically multiple areas that are involved with the instability not just like the upper part now for essential tremor depending on the severity of the case will determine how many visits a typical course of treatment might be six treatments give or take a few treatments over the course of five day months takes a while to restore the curve and restore the instability but many people have been told that there's nothing that can be done for essential trauma and other Tremors except medications and deep brain stimulation but I'm just here to tell you that often the cause is intracranial hypertension which can be treated by restoring the fluid flow out of the brain by restoring the cervical curve and stabilizing the neck with Prolotherapy Peg what made you decide to come to caring Medical I had been suffering for about 12 years became disabled just 22 doctors no no one could diagnose anything except for my B12 had dropped I mean I was suffering horribly with it and what symptoms were you having oh I my vision was going bad I was having brains apps and explain a brain zamp it felt like I had a probe an actual probe in my head that and someone would just send electricity to it and like it go to different parts different parts but you knew it was real deep it's not your face it's absolutely the brain yes yes and then I started having symptoms of what they thought I was having Strokes one side and then that would kind of get better and then it was the other side you'd get numbness or weakness both okay both and when they would do MRIs of your brain it didn't really show much right no they did find a small lesion um in the air of the pineal gland and I went to a neurosurgeon and they found that my B12 level was like at 20. okay and I was basically I had no control over my body movements at all like like you were under stress all the time that or um like somebody like I'm seizing all the time I was just like this all the time all the time and you couldn't do anything about it nothing nothing helped when they gave you B12 they started doing B12 shots or sublingual um B12 injections they started with the cyanocobalamin and then I didn't I reacted badly to it so um I do compounded methylcobalamin okay and that started it did start it did help okay but I still continuously had just if I put my arms out I would like this a zombie-like if I could get my arms up okay and in talking with people or I couldn't get my lips with quiver my face would quiver and then I was so even just for you being here talking the way you are that it's basically been the Improvement in the last three or four months right oh absolutely dramatic people would see you now and say like yes I don't what is the lady talking about because she seems totally fine fine they yeah they think that what made you think like we could help you and what tell tell the audience the Gestalt of your symptoms like that you had four months ago um like I could hardly walk I came here base wheelchair band and I was a year and a half ago two years ago I was either asking God to take me like you just wanted to end yourself so bad oh I could hardly see um so so terrible Vision terrible Vision my hearing um Even Silence silence was deafening okay explain that how is silence deafening the hearing anything sometimes just over sensitive highly yet sound sensitive it's a bad Sound Sensitivity and bad sensitivity yes in fact on my first time treatment here my very first treatment Stephen was with me and yeah my son Stephen was with me and as Demi helped roll me over after the injections and like my eyes were wide open I was always walking around like this because I could hardly stand it and the everything visually in my world was moving around me and foggy and I rolled over and my eyes were wide open and he said Mom you understand I mean my color came back because I was so pale I was so excited because I didn't have to squint the sunshine didn't make me feel like my eyeballs were burning or my brain was on fire and I knew right then that this was the way and I found you just by the grace of God okay um I had had all the I've got 14 prescriptions for anti-anxiety depression whatever but I sat down I've been my biggest own Advocate because all of them say there's nothing wrong with you I had they finally found a kyphosis okay and I said and my neurosurgeon said whatever wherever you want to go whatever you want to do because I believe this is bigger than just b12. oh so they were yeah he was he was wise about that he was and he said but I don't he admitted I don't know because you're MRIs so I went home and at that point when I was like okay God you're either gonna take me or you're going to help heal me or you will heal me I mean I'm at this point I have my sandal I have so much to live for and to offer yeah so I got on the computer and even with those Tremors I could hardly write I couldn't why don't you explain like when you came here what what would it have been like what would the audience have seen oh I would just like you're always like going like this yeah or my head or you'll see the skin on my neck quivering yeah and then the the arms were like shaking like the whole body was shaking yes but mostly the arms and the yes and the head like if you're at a restaurant people would absolutely notice you because you're shaking so much yes and I couldn't hold on to things like yeah and it would take me I would have to really concentrate on getting pen to paper yeah and then once I got it there I it was difficult to make it yeah any kind of just scribble so and internally I say it's like having a loose ground internally everything was arcing all the time yeah explain that though what is well I mean it just I just did what was going on outside was going on inside it's almost like you're constantly like your whole electrical supply of your whole body was off yes like you know we just had the hurricane and everybody's electrical system is like all Haywire so and then uh you know obviously on the internet and the YouTube videos I talk a lot about the vagus nerve and I talk a lot about the neck was there something once you saw the videos that you thought well maybe it's the neck everything okay I went back and started watching everything because that and it was the Vegas nerve one okay that first popped up because when I it would get worse I would drop to the ground if I brought my arms up okay and no one could tell me why so all I did was Google dizziness and fainting with arms up there you were yeah yeah yeah there you were and depending on your instability yeah it your neck even changes sometimes because of arm motion yes and I start crying awesome because I knew you were it was it was God answering me here's your and then when you accepted me and I did my interviews and reached out and it before I got to you I had found Dr schortino because I didn't know how I would get to you so I thought well I've got to start what I can yeah got the DMX and then um found Dr Derek who's my upper cervical chiropractor and he's all about you thank you so much yes and he was like he did everything he could to start but he helped he helped me understand that it's possible and then listening to you I knew it was possible and every video it's like oh Dr Hauser's talking to me you know if we think about essential tremors and brain zaps the most logical explanation for them is going to be that the brain pressure is so high yes so like one of the things you know I part of it I just wanted to show people because you're so different than when I first saw you yeah like you're basically you know getting back to normal like you know you're getting back to normal so if we looked at your optic nerve sheath diameter so like see where it says here when we started it was 8.2 and 8.2 and then the last visit when we retested you it went from 8.2 to where is it here oh here it is see where it says 8.2 and 8.2 then after uh two and a half months it went to 6.1 and 7.0 so it just means like the amount of fluid around your eye nerve it's way way less and then it's correlated with you know your improvement and obviously we've done a bunch of work on your curve and done pro therapy and your jugular veins also are opening up so your brain pressures going down and it is possible just with uh one Prolotherapy visit because you get so much tightening here so it is possible that even that first visit changed your structure enough even if it's just one millimeter that you know your pupil diameter went down enough that you know you didn't have that light sensitivity anymore it's amazing and the trimmers too they made me feel more unstable all the time because my body just was doing what it wanted to do how far can you walk now because you couldn't walk at all when you came yeah I can I can do maybe a hundred yards I mean and to me that's like running a marathon that's all I know it's not your Marathon type running but but literally and in I'm I'm looking forward to driving again awesome I'm looking forward to all most importantly I look forward to coming here no but I mean you know like getting back with your life yes what do you think you're gonna do like once you're healthy like you know because you went you were in such a bad State it's almost like God's giving you the gift of Health back yes like what do you does he put anything on your heart of yes what you want to do I've been a medical field for since 1989. um but now and I'm a I love giving of myself to others serving others so I'm going to get out there and do more of that volunteering getting involved in the community more in the community not so worried about all the other things that don't really matter good yeah it's like getting your priorities straight like every day is a gift we shouldn't take any day for granted so why don't you just go through like what are all the symptoms that have improved like you said your essential tremors like way way yeah like now you can write and then probably the head pressure is way better it is my involuntary motions are coming back they're becoming involuntary again okay um I can now brush my teeth in less than 10 minutes okay good um my proprioception much better your balance my balance is much better um vision is probably better yes yes and I still have times where I can feel the inflammation so I have to really take care of I mean I changed my diet how many treatments four today will be my fifth yeah how many did I say when you first came do you remember you weren't sure you told me I was really complex okay and I knew that usually I give you a number but yeah four to eight okay okay yeah uh to have digestion is that better it is it's getting better yes um and I think the reason is because you sent me back and I want to tell you that that is one of the things I really appreciate is that you sent me home to get more testing and that's when we found the ectopia yeah the yeah you have like cerebellum yeah just because you it was so severe yeah the brain pressure what I'd say is maybe in like four months we rechecked the MRI and see if the ectopia is gone I'd be excited because it should be you know if the brain pressure is down the brain should get sucked back up into where it's supposed so is that what's happening I can feel that yeah yeah I think I can feel that and you can understand if parts of the brain like here we'll just do this so if parts of the brain are in this hole You could also see where that could plug up the cerebral spinal fluid and that could also give brain zaps yeah because there's actually the brain sinking into a hole that it shouldn't be sinking into and oh and we did educate some people on the plane coming here I've handed out five of your cards too to people that look like they need you thank you so much the you've all been a real blessing but yes that um some of the other things that have proved my tinnitus almost gone and it went and that when I said the silence is deafening yeah there were times that it I just wanted I wanted to not have ears at that point it just would constantly and different tones and the tinnitus was what was bothering you when it was silent because it was just yes it was just overwhelming overwhelming and if if um if a car even the smallest sound sound it came across as though I had these like Bose speakers in my head and it was it was horrible and that's almost gone you never had it where your own voice was so deafening did you ever have yes okay because some people have that I didn't want to talk I've had I haven't had it like so severe but I've had it I I know what that is because I've had that where all of a sudden my own voice was like way louder than it normally it is and he has told Steven's told me in the past mom you're yelling Okay and like well but it's I didn't think I was probably your hearing was better too right yeah is there anything else that's better I mean we said walking digestion the the heart arrhythmias and everything is that better it it is much better um the other thing I found was my limbs would do I called it dysautonomic Tourette's of the Lamb that's good term dysautonomic Tourette's let's explain what you explain what you used to do and you don't do it anymore okay I just kick out for no reason for no reason or it would stop I would actually shuffling because that's really how I felt comfortable and was protecting myself yeah so I'd be shuffling and one leg would go and the other would just not like it wasn't there it would just stop and um the same with my arms the dog and the cat loved it though if I was trying to fix something I might fling it okay so I mean and I would fling food or I would just go to reach for something and I started rant and I just it would just go wherever and my arms would do that all by themselves you know in my hands and my fingers that almost is completely that's almost gone and I've started getting feeling yeah I've had I thought it was a blessing to have a high tolerance of pain what I did not realize was my body I wasn't getting the thing and so now when I get it yeah like I would burn myself and not even know it and then or I could smell the skin or I go to wash my hands or something and then it would it would hurt then but every time now that I get a little cut or a little something and I feel it I am like Praise Jesus that's awesome and I don't say that lightly so I um I'll keep coming back I'll be here about every six weeks just say hi where I appreciate it I was just thinking since Stephen's here would be kind of interesting to have me just talk to him a little bit okay just to you know from a from a sun standpoint yeah but uh no we just appreciate you sharing your story and look forward to you getting 100 and me too and we're gonna dance okay awesome okay we're gonna do a dance on my graduation day okay that's awesome okay we'll we'll take a video okay Stephen you live with your mom right and you guys are in Wichita yeah do you work full-time I do like it would have had been pretty awful for you right to watch your mom like like she sounds like she's a very vibrant lady to get like hopeless right your mom's like normally a tower of strength right and to see that start to uh crumble through time it was tough to see uh it was hard to show any like a motioned towards it because she already had enough to deal with right she just tried to be strong yeah whatever she needed was you probably prayed a lot for her too right I did um was there a time where you said like Jesus you're not even sure she's gonna get better right there was a point there was a point where I there was no coming back and then when she started talking about finding you and the possible trips to come down here it was exciting but it was always kind of skeptical very skeptical I don't believe you know like especially like she couldn't find like a guy with a tie wasn't that kind of funny when you saw like you want to go to that doctor like that doctor is going to be like you know what I mean like you guys went to all the medical centers and everything it was probably more comfortable to see not a suit and tie okay a guy that you know is all excited and wants to be helpful and not just just hey come sit in this chair all day and get treated on you know did I always think it's encouraging like for instance like imagine well what maybe just explain like you're here for your first visit and then my team myself included we're going through all the test results and this is wrong and that's wrong and this is wrong and then it can get corrected did you guys get really hopeful then I know she did for sure I still was skeptical okay that's fair I was skeptical pretty much all the way up till she started seeing the results okay because paper you know injections is all fine but that's fair well when did you know she is getting better like when was the aha moment like where you went from a skeptic to a Believer well like she said though is when she would it's like so you would see her get out of the couch just right on up you know stop the shakes she would and then being just excited the smile is the playing with the kids around you know like the cousins kids and stuff it started real uh okay start real early so I don't know it's kind of hard like after a couple of visits I say visit Three I started seeing a lot of differences okay so you so you're convinced now like I'm a right I'm a doctor and I'm getting I'm 100 like we're like I start to get excited now so it was worth it to interview you here just for that because I didn't know like you were a skeptic yeah 100 skeptic until I see for me until I see physical results paperless Old Stone yeah and you probably appreciate it too like even from the get-go because she was so disabled even me with all my experience of my team it's like we got to do some other tests and we gotta they're probably from a skeptic standpoint I'm like that doctor like you know it was nice to hear it wasn't just right in the treatment it wasn't said you know what oh well here we go we're just going to do this yeah you know yeah and then obviously we told Mom you know what position to sleep in and things to do and then uh but um so it's probably made your life better on we're living with mom like you don't have to do as much now right no no I got my chore list still so yeah yeah she's cool though what a what a neat lady isn't she is she's great so I just appreciate your sharing yeah of course thank you [Music] thank you

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Published: Mon Apr 10 2023