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

The patient had mobility problems in her lower extremities. She didn’t have strength in her legs to stand and was using a wheelchair. Diagnosed with the Neuro-Cranio-Vertebral Syndrome. Filum disease. Descent of the Cerebellar tonsils (Arnold-Chiari Syndrome Type I). Idiopathic Syringomyelia. Multiple disk disease. Odontoid retroflexion, she went the minimally invasive procedure of the sectioning of the filum terminale according to the Filum System® at the Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona in July 2018. You can see recordings from the pre-op day, one day after the procedure and one week post-op.  

Dr Royo-Salvador ’s theory involves the important discovery of the cause for Scoliosis, which had been considered as being “ idiopathic ”, as to say “without known cause”, up to the 1990ies.  Thanks to his etiological explication we now know that Scoliosis can be a clinical manifestation involving an abnormal traction of the spinal cord caused by an excessively tense filum terminale; it is an expression of a Neuro-Cranio-Vertebral Syndrome and/or Filum Disease. (“ Siringomielia, escoliosis y malformación de Arnold-Chiari idiopática. Etiología común ”, Rev Neurol. 1996 Aug; Volume 24, Nº 132; 937 – 959 Dr Royo-Salvador MB).