On March 30, Ginger MacQueen will celebrate the one-year anniversary of her liberation from MS. 

Having travelled to Poland in March, 2010, MacQueen was among the first Canadians to travel abroad for the controversial liberation treatment.

She had no guarantees of relief from her MS symptoms, and, moreover, she had doubts about the long-term effects.

But now MacQueen is ecstatic as she describes her improvements.

“In 10 years I hadn’t run. I couldn’t jump.  Now, I can jump and I am still showing improve-ments,” said MacQueen. 

While MacQueen’s is a success story, Darrel Gregory of the MS Society is more cautious.

“The problem with angioplasty in terms of CCSVI and MS is that no one knows if CCSVI and MS are connected,” said Gregory. “At this point it is still just a theory.”

Unfortunately, concrete evidence one way or the other is still years away. 

Though the Alberta government has announced funding for clinical trials, these will only go ahead after results of a three-year observational study are complete.

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