The Filum Disease
Last update: 17/06/2020, Dr. Miguel B. Royo Salvador, Medical Board number 10389. Neurosurgeon y Neurologist.
What is the Filum Disease?
The Filum Disease includes conventional diseases such as: Arnold-Chiari Syndrome Type I, Idiopathic Syringomyelia y Idiopathic Scoliosis, Platybasia, Basilar Invagination, Odontoid Retroflexion, Brainstem Kinking, and it may have a bearing in the appearance of Disc Disease (disc protrusions and herniations), Spinal Stenosis, Nocturnal Enuresis and others.
The Filum Disease becomes manifest mainly with symptoms of the nervous system, the skull and the spine, such as: headaches, nausea, vomiting, dysphagia, vertigo, memory deterioration, neck pain, upper back pain, lower back pain, paraesthesias, sensitivity alterations, pain in the extremities, balance alterations, insomnia, lack of strength in the extremities, amongst many others.
According to our research, the Filum Disease is a consequence of the traction exerted by a filum terminale that is tenser than normal of the whole nervous system: spinal cord, brainstem, cerebellum and brain.
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