Info on Arnold-Chiari I, Idiopathic Syringomyelia, and Idiopathic Scoliosis: Causes and Insights

Observations on idiopathic Scoliosis based on a work presented by Gioia Luè , psychologist, at the 8th CSSf Meeting in Mâcon, France, in 2014.    Patients with scoliosis, in the 12 to 18 age group, talk to us and express their daily life problems and disappointments due to this disease. The delicacy of their relationship with their changing bodies during adolescence is well known. If to this precarious balance a misalignment of the vertebral column is added, provoking an incorrect posture that is less attractive and requires certain special care, it is readily apparent that the difficulties can go from being physical to social and psychological.

Won’t my spinal cord be moving around on the inside after cutting the filum? The sectioning of the filum terminale ligament involves the elimination of the anomalous traction that acts on the patient’s spinal cord and nervous system. Once the surgery is performed, the nervous system is liberated, but no tissue changes its position. Only in some cases we detect that the conus medullaris and the descended cerebellar tonsils, over time and very slowly (normally years after the surgery), may rise by some millimetres.

Since June 2015, the Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona counts on the experience of Dr Horia Salca Calín. He is the new member of the medical-surgical team of ICSEB, a neurosurgeon trained in all conventional techniques of neurosurgery and is accredited for the implementation of the Filum System ® Surgery method . Also, he is the part of the Department of Research and Development of the Institut.   He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1990 from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMF) of Târgu Mureș and specialized in neurosurgery in 1996 from UMF, Bucharest in Romania.            Dr Salca worked in university hospitals with high intensity care activity in Bucharest and Constanza. He did his Specialty Fellowship in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and London (UK) in 1995 and 1996 respectively and achieved the Advanced Specialty Research Diploma (Diplôme d’études avancées de specializati...