[troutman]

Originally Posted by Iginla

Seems like the success rate os at about 60% and that is a whole lot of people living better lives because of doing this treatment.

What is the evidence for that?

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/...is/#more-21333

The evidence, however, is what ultimately drives mainstream thinking about a disease and its treatment. In the case of CCSVI we now have the results of a large observational study. Zamboni’s group has also published a study of the liberation procedure, with weakly positive results, but given his role in this controversy few find the results compelling.

Dr. William Pryse-Phillips, a Canadian neurologist, followed the results of patients from Newfoundland and Labrador who went overseas to have the liberation procedure done. This was not a randomized trial, although the assessments were blinded. They followed 30 patients who had the procedure and 10 controls who did not. They found no benefits from the procedure – there was no improvement in standard measures of MS severity and no difference between treated and untreated patients. Further several patients developed clots in their jugular veins after the procedure. If the underlying concept of CCSVI is correct then these patients should have become significantly worse – but they didn’t.

Reports of the study also indicate that two Canadians have died from the procedure, but it was not clear if they were in this study or not (probably not, considering how it was reported).