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Join Date: Sep 2006
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I received a series of e-mails about this last night. It was suggested that instead of idiopathic Parkinson's Disease, that she has a form of Parkinsonism called Cerebellar Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (CTOS).
In CTOS there is chronic hypoxia due to the pressure of certain muscles - usually around the neck. When the chronic hypoxia affects the basal ganglia in putamen, a decrease in the dopamine production takes place, causing symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
Accompanying the e-mails, and consistent with this, were magnified photographs of the nun's head and neck, showing that she had hypertrophied (bulging) Sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle on the left hand side of the neck.
This coincides with her own reports of the symptoms being on her left hand side, the same side as the hypertrophied muscles.
It was suggested that if she did not do something permanently to the Sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle and the other neck muscles involved, that the symptoms would return.
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