Author: Tony

  • Traveling to Arizona has gotten a little easier

    Traveling for medical procedures can be a daunting process. Aside from the costs associated with international travel, knowing where to stay, knowing where to eat, and even where to find the nearest

  • Visualizing the liberation procedure for CCSVI

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_RXs5dPh6E[/youtube] Dr. Paolo Zamboni coined the term CCSVI to describe the compromise blood flow in the brain, but do many understand exactly how the procedure works? This simple YouTube video posted by Dr. Zamboni, describes the blood flow of patient without multiple sclerosis (MS) and patient with the malady.

  • 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes of world health

    In this video the story of world health is told by Swedish academic superstar Hans Rosling. Here statistics come to life when he fantastically illustrates global health graphically as it is tied to development over the last 200 years. As we move towards a world economy and global health converges with the resources of developing countries,…

  • CCSVI Screening in Action

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbP3Dnm1yRU[/youtube] Here, Nicole Feigenbutz demonstrates a CCSVI screening.  This footage was taken for use as b-roll for news coverage and it shows the method used to look for the condition. We screen patients from all over the world for candidacy for the liberation procedure. Interesting enough, the majority of our patients come to us from…

  • The power of video

    As we’ve been growing our practice and our online presence, we are of course thinking of how we can best communicate the power of the CCSVI liberation procedure.  We realized that we need more photos and we really need patient testimonials.  If you are reading this and you are a patient or the loved one…

  • Demystifying the Complete Blood Count

    We stumbled across this article in the New York Times that demystifies the numbers behind Complete Blood Counts.  Often patients receive this record and have no idea what the numbers mean.  In this interactive chart the NYT helps you understand what each component and its requisite score means. We think it’s pretty nifty, what do…

  • Canadian CCSVI Early Study Report

    The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the MS Society of Canada have just released their report on the progress of the seven CCSVI studies that they funded June 2010. Although the first six months are crucial, we probably won’t see widespread results for a while. Still the fact that rigorous protocols are being set up…

  • Matt’s Story

    Room for Hope Day One We just completed our trip to Seattle. The mood was overwhelmingly positive and excited. Several great presentations were made to help MS patients understand the basics of CCSVI and the liberation procedure and to provide them an opportunity to interact with health care professionals and other people coping with MS.