Autism in children, a clue to its cure?
I aplogize to the children and parents of the children for taking so long to publish these results, but I wanted a second example before even raising hopes, and then there is life which can get in the way of the important things, with the clutter and chaos of just trying to live. So I apologize for the delay since the first patient case was 1997, and it took 5 years before another child was presented to confirm of deny the results.
In 1997 a fellow doctor approached me and asked if the accelerated healing would do anything for his daughter who suffered from severe autism. I told him frankly I did not know, but was willing to examine her with ultrasound scan in hopes of finding a clue toward doing something positive.
The exam proceeded fairly well with the full spine showing scarrification signs paraspinally from the cervical to the sacral regions. This was puzzling since the girl had suffered no known trauma except a very rough time of birthing with finally a cesarean section being required (after six hours of very very difficult labor by Mom).
I decided to try treatment as if the child had suffered an elongation automobile type whipping trauma, BUT, hesitated since there was no verbal communications from her and I did not want to use too much intensity of electrical therapy. I finally decided to try accelerated healing very timidly on the S2 region thus avoiding any possibility that the pulsing currents might trigger epilepsy and also to avoid any damage to the higher spine structures if I did over range. My reasoning was that the S2 level of spine contained only cauda equina with plenty of safe space margins and just the sulcus to the cisterna chylii, so dangers were minimal.
To make a long story short, 5 hours after ACCEL S2 stimulation (stimmed for about 2 minutes until we saw the tissues "blossom" signalling an accelerated healing had begun) the child stood up from the dinner table (had never stood on her own during her 8 years of life), walked into the living room (had never walked during her 8 years of life), sat down on her own, and intently watched T.V. for a few hours (had no attention span nor awareness previously).
Needless to say her parents were extremely excited and called me in total amazement. The trouble was I of course had only been testing the equipment for compatibility in an area I never dreamed would make any impact on the syndrome. Well, she was flown to see me once per week for the entire Summer, and each session brought 4 days of amazing awareness, but then all faded back to total disability and non awareness. Father absolutely refused to treat her at home, mother was not clinically adept, and they lived 200 miles away so could only arrange a flight down once per week. By the end of the Summer treatment was discontinued by mutual consent. I was thoroughly chagrined at father, but respected his boundaries, but I also felt it was unfair to give this child the World and then have it fade away from her every week. It was a wonderful but also bitter sweet experience since I had no way of arranging more frequent treatments.
Since then I've tried this S2 "ACCEL blosoming" on one other child (age 12) and significant but transient improvement was also noted (walked, awareness "turned on", coordination improved) but again financial and social factors prevented follow-up care. IS THIS A CLUE TO CAUSE OF AUTISM? Very possibly we may be seeing some sort of "normo-pressure hydro cephalus" being reversed. Opening the S2 sulcus drains the spine and brain of relative excessive pressures? (I say relative since testing might show normal pressures, but for these children normal doesn't work well, they need lower pressures.) Another possibility is that simply the stimulation breaks through some sort of limbic barrier which is abnormally strong in these children. Of course there are other possibilities, but I favor the "normo-pressure hydrocephalus" idea since the time of response is over hours suggesting a slow fluid change rather than a fast neuro stim effect, also the scar tissues imaged paraspinally suggest a tractional trauma to the spine (possibly during birthing) which also could derange normal fluid flows if internal to the canal scarrification was present. Remember the accelerated healing involves carefully limited and monitored current which really IS NOT VERY NEURO STIMULATORY. Also in the chiropractic literature generally adjustments of the spine (which would also restore cerebro spinal fluid flows) again and again report here-say clinical type improvements in these children. Admittedly the manual adjustment of the spine is a complex influence, but my accelerated healing application to S2 is fairly singular in that lymph and sulcus are dilated without a lot of touching, handling, complex influences. So? Reseach monies and designs are needed desparately to follow-up on this FIRST CLUE in a syndrome which has tons of literature but really so far NO answers, not even any clues to speak of other than this dramatic clinical experience. The children walked, were aware (like seeing a new world for the first time), and then our hearts were broken by inability for follow -up. Sincerely; John D. Reid D.C. May 25, 2002 Soniclin@aol.com,...........507-281-4040 9 A.M. - 4 P.M. M-W-F