With the occasion of the release of the renewed Chiari & Scoliosis & Syringomyelia Foundation website, we would like to share this letter from the organization's president Dr. Miguel B. Royo-Salvador.
My research quest initiated in the mid-seventies, it focused mainly on the cause of idiopathic Syringomyelia, followed by that of the Arnold-Chiari Syndrome Type I and later, on that of idiopathic Scoliosis. I reached the conclusion that the origin of these conditions, and that of many other associated ones, was an abnormal traction of the spinal cord brought about by a congenitally tenser than usual filum terminale.
I laid the theoretical foundations for a new treatment for these pathologies by means of the surgical sectioning of the Filum Terminale with my doctoral thesis “Contribution to the Etiology of Syringomyelia” (1992). The outcome was the constitution of the health method Filum System®, a protocolised system designed for the diagnosis and the treatment of a new concept of disease, the Filum Disease. The Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona (ICSEB) is in charge of its application and dissemination.
This new Filum Disease exists since the beginnings of mankind and is present in a good part of the world population, possibly being the most frequent disease, but at the same time, the most unknown one to patients given that the majority of manifestations are not taken into account or are considered to be of little importance by patients as well as by health care professionals.
