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Posture, etiology of a syndrome

Paolo Platania
Posturology guidelines and
interdisciplinary case study

  
Preface
  
  
Posturology
  
  
The backstage
  
 
Interview | Disclaimer

Preface

The material and theories disclosed by this publication are the result of long research started in the year 2000, in progress so far and carried out with a unique protocol. Since this study owes its feasibility to some coincidences, is supposed to be the unreleased before and hardly further repeatable, nevertheless, until research won’t shed light over, it is thought to be the most advanced method developed for this type of study.

The activity was initially undertaken to achieve an opportunistic goal: the author was confident to find a health care professional to diagnose and cure his problems, hopefully relying on healthcare system to be suitable for the diagnostic exploration and therapeutic treatment and on underlying scientific knowledge of the matter, the method was a casual research of someone who understood the claimed symptoms.

This initial strategy soon became misleading from the intended scope, the ascertainment of lack of scientific knowledge, the lowering confidence in health care professionals and the growing frustration from therapeutic and diagnostic attempts failures surprisingly turned into strong determination in the aim pursuing and gave birth to the self evaluation method to do it, hence the challenge was accepted.

The final strategy redesigned the method as follows:

All the research has been carried out by the author being at the same time: Internal resources: External support from practitioners consisting in: Self evaluation is considered the most helpful tool because is the only way to "in vivo" monitor the afferent stimulations the neurological control deals with and simultaneously observing the corresponding efferent data flow. In order to take real advantage of this tool one must not leave afferent stimulation analysis confined to mere pain sensations, involvement of motor sensations is mandatory, the extent to which they are observable is maximized by some observer’s features and coincidences: The uniqueness of this method consists in the impossibility to neglect anything involved in the in vivo observation, maximizing: Price to pay for this is the initial lack of in depth specialization of the author in each scientific subject and a lack of medical laboratory resources; further detail about the method and materials are available in the The case study section.

Interview

The following QA section help fully appreciate the uniqueness of this material.

Q: what was your initial symptomatic compliance ?

A: I first recognized that a kind of motor asymmetry forced me to strange movement in ordinary athletic activity and it either decreased athletic performance and overloaded muscles and joints, the motor disorder was not confined to athletic activity but involved all motor ordinary activity, on the affected left side only.

Q: who did you go to for solving your problem ?

A: I’ve tried lot of practitioners with different specialties and approaches but my way of exposing the problem did not allow anyone neither to diagnose nor to even understand me, so I realized that some further effort had to be done in order to provide more precise elements to them.

Q: why didn’t you give up since problems were not disabling ?

A: The initial problem wasn’t really worth the later effort but the more I got deep into it the more I recognised its asymptomatic but evident degenerations and its relationship with most of my symptomatic manifestations I previously didn’t relate to. This shocking finding together with the evidence of reversibility (provided by the regression events) and some worsening manifestation (of what previously asymptomatic) gave me the certainty that the effort deserved all my resources.

Q: how did you get to this point ?

A: I first thought that once found the primary postural unbalance it would have been possible to treat in turn each supposed etiology with existing non-invasive therapies waiting for the resolutive outcome, unfortunately the currently supposed etiology might require highly invasive treatments and so has to be thoroughly investigated prior to therapy design. Given the effort required, the investigation may not do away from external medical personnel interest, full involvement and trust on the etiological hypothesis, way far from health care approach and much more oriented to a scientific research one.

Q: why should scientific research be interested in this ?

A: Postural distortions damages are nowadays wide accepted as the main responsible for the most diffuse (and socially expensive) pathologies, research deriving benefits would be a social conquest, nevertheless posturology is still neglected. My postural deviation is not uncommon, individual variations are easily observable in quite all the population, furthermore symptoms I experience are amongst the commonest degenerative diseases encountered by health professionals, this is why I suspect the etiology not to be isolated. This case study exposes theories, evidences and methods never previously presented together with all the details to demonstrate its reliable hypothetical base, is something worth betting on.

Q: which scientific research branch should be interested in it ?

A: During literature seek after activity I daily deal with lots of branches of medicine all having to do with similar problems but from different point of view, confirming medical science orientation toward specialization rather than interdisciplinary approach; given the current orientation I guess my material might sound interesting for:

Would, on the other side, posturology science ever develop a wider acceptance, it would be the branch to take the greatest advantage by all my material.

Disclaimer

Intended audience: after having ascertained the insufficiency of health care system for not prototyped diagnosis processes and the unavailability to allocate resources to not highly disabling pathologies, widespreading all this material and allowing it to be freely accessible felt to be the only way to arouse the scientific interest essential for this type of diagnosis, the effort is aimed to seeking research/healthcare institutes interested in supporting the etiological diagnosis process of the author’s case study hopefully encouraged by deriving research outcome profitability. Educational requirement to understand this material is basic scientific background in the medical field.

Intended meaning: given the individual clinical relevance of the material and the lack of scientific acknowledgment, this research is neither intended to demonstrate what’s stated nor to deny any conflicting existing bibliography; it’s meant to present new hypothesis, theories and evidences that do not result from any other previously published material in the hope they will give elements to research enhancement.

Bibliographic references: precise bibliographic references are provided only when felt to be mandatory for hypothesis support, are elsewhere substituted by the keywords to use to search for it or neglected if unnecessary.

Copyrights: this material is self published and is propriety of the author, for details/requests contact Paolo Platania



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