On 12 June 2008, the doors of the Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona (ICSEB) headquarters opened for the first time to the public. The opening ceremony, even though it only seemed to be a starting point, was actually also the culmination of an intense medical and scientific work that had started in the seventies led by Dr. Miguel B. Royo-Salvador, ICSEB’s Director and Founder.
At the beginning of his investigation, Dr. Royo focused on the cause of idiopathic Syringomyelia, followed by that of the Arnold-Chiari Syndrome Type I and, later, the cause of idiopathic Scoliosis. He reached the conclusion that these three conditions, together with other associated ones, share a common point: the cause. According to scientific criteria, the origin of these conditions is an abnormal tension of a ligament that is called Filum terminale and that joins the end of the spinal cord with the lower end of the spine (the first vertebrae of the coccyx). That tension then causes traction on the spinal cord and the entire nervous system of the patient, what causes an important part of the signs and symptoms that characterise these conditions.
