What is the science behind it?

Raymond Perrin’s research at the University of Salford in conjunction with the University of Manchester, coupled with the hundreds of successful clinical case studies and the latest findings in neurophysiology, has provided strong evidence that CFS/ME involves a disturbance in the drainage of toxins from the brain and muscles. These poisons often enter the body in the form of viruses, bacteria and other microbes, parasitic infection or due to environmental toxins such as pesticides.

However many toxins are simply an overproduction of chemicals naturally produced within the body to help the immune system with fighting infections, inflammation and stress. Constant physical and emotional stress can lead to this type of over production. The excess of some toxins in the brain and spinal cord should drain into the lymph vessels and be broken  down by the body’s lymphatic  system and liver. CFS/ME patients have a reversed drainage that leads to toxins building up in the central nervous system. Causing the dysfunction of different parts of the brain and spinal cord. This explains the many different symptoms complained of by CFS/ME patients.

The results of the initial research can be found in the following peer reviewed papers.

1.      Perrin R N 1993 Chronic fatigue Syndrome, a view from the biomechanical perspective. British Osteopathic journal; vol xi

2.      Perrin R N, Edwards J and Hartley P (January/ February 1998). An evaluation of the effectiveness of osteopathic treatment on symptoms associated with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. A preliminary report. Journal of Medical engineering and technology, 22(1), 1-13.

3.      Perrin RN lymphatic Drainage of the Neuraxis in Chronic fatigue Syndrome: a Hypothetical Model for cranial Rhythmic Impulse. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 107(06), 218-224. 2007

Perrin’s research has expanded our knowledge of the disease and how to treat it. In July 2005 he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Salford for his thesis on CFS/ME.

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