If I were been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lupus or any number of other neurological disorders, I would want to be tested for CCSVI. The reticence on the part of the medical communities and government officials to test for and treat this condition makes reason stare.

My limited understanding of scientific research is that it is based on logic. To refuse to act upon the avalanche of evidence from doctors, health care providers and patients themselves is illogical and goes against the very precepts they claim are necessary to embrace new findings in the causal factors of MS. It is even more astounding when one realizes that the venous connection to Multiple Sclerosis was given serious consideration several decades ago.

The term Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency was coined by Dr. Paulo Zamboni. It has been only two years since most of us were made aware of his work. However the technology to visualize strictures in the inner jugular veins has been available for at least a decade. Venoplasty has been performed many times for this issue before 2008. Its connection to MS may not have been the reason for the procedures, but there are vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists as well as cardio vascular surgeons who knew the problem existed and treated it.

Some people with MS have are under the false impression that the angioplasty or Liberation Procedure is easily attainable in the US. Interventional radiologists, as well as their counterparts in any branch of medical practice are accountable to the hospital boards where they have privileges. Politics is a thread woven through the entire tapestry of health care. There is always an entity with higher authority to consider. Some of the doctors who have decided to embrace this procedure are considered mavericks by their peers and counter parts in other medical fields. I doubt that any of the well known providers would tell you that politics is a major concern in any field of endeavor. A glaring example is the dreaded "hospital protocol". It may not matter when your doctor tells YOU that particular medication can be given, or which diet you will be allowed. Hospital protocol comes first. That would make a good series of articles in and of itself. Sometimes it simply boils down to who has to scratch which back or what compromise will be made