{"id":81768,"date":"2022-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.institutchiaribcn.com\/comunicacion\/the-filum-disease-and-the-research-areas-of-the-rd-department-at-the-institut-chiari-siringomielia-escoliosis-de-barcelona-icseb\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:31:44","slug":"filum-disease-research-areas-rd-department-institut-chiari-siringomielia-escoliosis-de-barcelona-icseb","status":"publish","type":"comunicacion","link":"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/en\/filum-disease-research-areas-rd-department-institut-chiari-siringomielia-escoliosis-de-barcelona-icseb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Filum Disease and the research areas of the R&#038;D Department at the Institut Chiari &#038; Siringomielia &#038; Escoliosis de Barcelona (ICSEB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-muted aniview centerTXT\">Published by\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by ICSEB\" href=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/en\/author\/chiari\/\" rel=\"author\">ICSEB<\/a>\u00a0at 27 May, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-wrap img-responsive alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/investigacion-icseb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Research &amp; Development Department at ICSEB<\/strong>\u00a0was officially created in 2014, following Dr. Royo-Salvador\u2019s tireless work and the Institute\u2019s on-going clinical activity.<\/p>\n<p>In the first years of his academic studies, in collaboration with Professor Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Domenech (Chair of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona \u2013 UAB \u2013 from 1975 to 1992), Dr. Royo-Salvador published his doctoral thesis focussed on understanding\u00a0<strong>idiopathic syringomyelia and its etiologic mechanism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he devoted himself to understanding what he later discovered was the cause of an\u00a0<strong>excessive<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>caudal traction exerted on the entire nervous system by the Filum Terminale ligament<\/strong>. He described its pathological functioning \u2013 until then of unknown origin \u2013 within all the related conditions (<strong>Arnold-Chiari I Syndrome, idiopathic Siringomielia, idiopathic Scoliosis, Basilar Impression, Platybasia, Odontoid retroflexion, Kinking of the brainstem and others<\/strong>). Hence, he went on to describe a new disease, the\u00a0<strong>Filum Disease<\/strong>, which includes the above-mentioned conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In patients with these diagnoses, Dr. Royo-Salvador started applying a\u00a0<strong>minimally invasive treatment,\u00a0<\/strong>the<strong>\u00a0Sectioning of the Filum Terminale<\/strong>. The description, implementation and perfection of the surgical technique generated an extensive casuistry, several lines of research and a series of publications dedicated to deepen each new pathognomonic concept related to the Filum Disease and its treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, at ICSEB they were developing a set of highly specialized protocols for the Filum Disease, which have been registered as\u00a0<strong>Filum System<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0<strong>health method<\/strong>. These protocols revolve around the etiopathogenesis, the diagnosis, and the medical, surgical and rehabilitation treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 the ICSEB research team published an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/commons\/pdf\/publicaciones\/icseb\/publication-filum-disease-bmc-neurology-2020.pdf\"><strong>article<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in which they describe the clinical and imaging diagnosis of the Filum Disease, based on a sample of 373 cases. Thus,\u00a0<strong>the Filum Disease and the Neuro-cranio-vertebral syndrome<\/strong>\u00a0were further reaffirmed as entirely different from other syndromes, with which they were often confused, especially with the Occult tethered cord syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, our R&amp;D Department, in collaboration with Universidad de Barcelona (UB), Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Barcelona (UAB) and Sanitas CIMA Hospital, continues to study all possible areas of interest, conditions that are included and associated with the Filum Disease, technical, methodological, neurosurgical and expert systems advances. Their sole objective is\u00a0<strong>contributing to knowledge and to new findings, to provide patients with a better quality of life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the research projects, as well as the free trainings on the research findings and the financial aid to support patients\u2019 treatment, are funded by the\u00a0<u>Chiari &amp; Scoliosis &amp; Syringomyelia Foundation (CSSF)<\/u>. The CSSf\u2019s main and almost only benefactor is Dr. Royo-Salvador. Any additional contribution to the cause will be much appreciated. If you wish to make a donation, please go to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chiarifoundationbcn.com\/donar\/\">https:\/\/chiarifoundationbcn.com\/donar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research &amp; Development Department<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>at Institut Chiari &amp; Siringomielia &amp; Escoliosis de Barcelona<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":81769,"template":"","tipos-de-comunicacion":[512],"class_list":["post-81768","comunicacion","type-comunicacion","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipos-de-comunicacion-news-announcement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Filum Disease \u2014 R&amp;D focus areas | ICSEB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Overview of ICSEB R&amp;D lines focused on Filum Disease: active projects, objectives and ongoing studies.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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