I'm not a doctor or a medical professional.
However I wonder what the level of testing was in this treatment. Are there possible side effects, what are the long term effects, is this a temporary measure. What are the possible surgical difficulties.
Its terrific to me that it reduces symptoms, but from my understanding this hasn't gone through the standard clinical trials, or even followed the Canadian Protocals to get approved for funding.
So while I get that this is the latest miracle cure, it also goes counter to what the understood causes of MS are, so I can understand why the government is unwilling to fund until it becomes a proven technique.
If its the miracle cure that its hoped to be then I don't see an issue with the funding of it. But there has to be a level of comfort that this is really what it purports to be before the government is going to kick money into it.
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