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Originally Posted by redforever
My main beef is, why can anyone, except someone suffering from MS, get treatment for a blockage? Shouldn't everyone be eligible for treatment of a blockage in their body, no matter if you have MS or not?
MS patients are treated like second class citizens in this matter.
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The problem is though, that it hasn't been demonstrated that they actually have a blockage. Dr. Zamboni claimed that 100% of the MS patients he tested had this blockage, but other researchers have not been able to duplicate this result, or even demonstrate that MS patients are more likely to have the blockage than the general population. The other issue is that, as others have stated, the blockages that are being treated in others are generally arterial blockages, whereas the "Liberation" treatment involves veins.
I really do hope this turns out to be a legitimate treatment, I support further investigation, and if it does turn out to be legitimate then I'm all for the government funding it - but no novel treatment should ever be funded without proper clinical evidence (including some indication of who it would benefit and who it wouldn't), particularly a potentially risky and somewhat expensive treatment.