CALCIFIED REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY OF THE SPINE

A case that has been induced over 20 years with anti-inflammatory pain killers

Since 1997 I have been trying to get a government investigation into allopathic medicine on the strength of my experience with ankylosing spondylitis. My case history with this condition developed over twenty years while taking powerful anti-inflammatory pain killers which were prescribed between 1972 and 1990. In 1991 I read a detailed newspaper article about repetitive strain injury in which I recognized the biological cause of my entire case history, including the knee problem that I had gone to the doctors with originally, and I realized that the doctors had induced my case history of ankylosing spondylitis with their treatment.

The medical profession classified ankylosing spondylitis (fusion of the spine) in the 1950s when they spotted the signs of calcification in x-rays. It is a calcified form of repetitive strain injury that occurs in the spine (it is the body's way of shoring up the inflamed ligaments holding the vertibrae together), and at the time no one knew about repetitive strain injury. They have been treating cases indefinitely with anti-inflammatory pain killers ever since, and now they do not recognize calcified forms of repetitive strain injury, nor repetitifve strain injury of the spine.

I was able to trace the cause and effect of repetitive strain injury throughout my case history, which developed as follows:

Between 1969 and 1972 my professional and private activity consisted of sitting down to work, and I developed "water on the knee" in the right knee, with the ligament going very soft. After hobbling about on this, my left knee seized up and became very sore. After a few months of this I developed back pains.

I suspected that my activity must be responsible for this, but I couldn't find confirmation of this anywhere and being puzzled by the severity of the symptoms I went to the doctors. I was prescribed powerful anti-inflammatory pain killers for the next 20 years, and I took them without knowing what they were except that they were for arthritis. There was no calcification in the knees which were the severest problem. At the same time as I started taking the drugs my professional activity changed to standing up all day, and I now realize that it was this that caused my recovery and not the drugs. I never had the knee problem again because the new job situation remained the same for 20 years. However this job was very bad for my back.

For ten years I kept very fit by pumping blood into the joints every day with my exercises. The development of ankylosing spondylitis occurred after ten years of this, but there were early warning signs of job damage in the 1970s which I missed because of the diagnosis and the drugs, and also because they were very subtle. My job over these 20 years involved working over a bench and often very long hours. In addition to the spine, the left shoulder was a severe job-stress site and this developed severe calcification damage during the calcification of the spine. The cause and effect of my case history is easy to trace and breaks down like this:

1 - The combined effect of the drugs and my professional activity caused minor changes to my muscular structure in the 1970s (in the shoulders) while I kept very fit. Because of the drugs I did not experience back stress warning symptoms;

2 - The combined effect of the drugs (they are addictive in long-term use) and a hard orthopaedic bed (which I slept on without a pillow as advised by the doctors) in conjunction with the above, caused the fusion of the spine in the 1980s (the doctors advise sleeping without a pillow on a firm bed to keep the spine straight when it fuses up, and this was significant in causing the fusion);

3 - The combined effect of allopathic drugs and my job activity after the spine had fused up (and the employer’s management of the situation) caused a back-stress accident which resulted in extensive extra damage which ended my professional life. The job involved pressing regularly on the right side and the fused-up spine has been tipping over on that side ever since.

The calcification in the left shoulder in the 1980s developed at the same time as the fusion of the spine, and both this shoulder and the spine were severe stress points. The fusion of the spine and the continued job activity caused excessive muscle loss in the backs of the legs.

Throughout the above history, the combined effect of the natural causes, and the prescribed anti-inflammatory pain killers, and allopathic advice and psychology, induced out of my health an illness potential that allopathic medicine attributes to the health of those with the susceptibility.

The medical profession does not yet recognize calcified forms of repetitive strain injury (very dangerous because they treat them with anti-inflammatory pain killers), and it does not yet recognize repetitive strain injury as being either the (or a) cause of ankylosing spondylitis. These issues need to be investigated because of the medical profession’s treatment of patients and their symptoms.

The medical profession does not recognize my back stress accident either, and this needs to be investigated for the benefit of their customers, who as yet are not able to learn from my experience. Allopathic medical practise deprived me of the body's natural warning symptoms and by ignoring my experience it is depriving its customers of my warnings as well.

The whole point of going to the doctors is to find out what the cause of a problem is so that one can recover from it or avoid it, and instead, allopathic medical practise has simply lured me through a severe illness potential that it attributes to the health of those with the early warning symptoms.

LETTER TO THE REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER, PRINTED OCTOBER 2001 (slightly revised)

From David Dixon

Has anyone wondered why RSI of the spine doesn't exist? Well I've learned from experience that it does, except that allopathic doctors (our medical profession) call it A.S. or ankylosing spondylitis and blame it on the public's health. They treat it indefinitely with powerful anti-inflammatory pain killers.

I went to them in 1972 with quite a severe problem in the knees, and after 20 years of taking anti-inflammatory pain killers and doing what the doctors told me to do, I finished up with an extremely severe case of ankylosing spondylitis, and I've never had the knee problem since, owing to a change of professional activity in 1972.

The difference between repetitive strain injury and the form the doctors call ankylosing spondylitis is that if young people get repetitive strain injury of the spine, their immune system triggers off a process whereby the swollen and softened ligaments holding the vertebrae together are strengthened by its pouring extra calcium into the ligament, and in extreme cases (such as those treated with anti-inflammatory pain killers while continuing with the cause and risk factor) this leads to the complete fusion of the spine.

The medical profession spotted the potential for this phenomenon in their x-rays in the 40s and 50s, and classified it as being caused by the public's health before they knew about repetitive strain injury. As far as I know, all cases of repetitive strain injury of the spine are classified as ankylosing spondylitis and are treated this way.

I recognized the cause and effect of my medical case history in a newspaper article about repetitive strain injury in 1991 (Daily Telegraph, May 24). My entire history with ankylosing spondylitis developed while taking these drugs. I also received severe calcification of another job-stressed joint, the left shoulder, at the same time.

I have spent the last ten years trying to report my experience to the medical profession and I am shocked to learn that they do not wish to investigate the matter, nor do they respect customer experience. There is no wish to discover the natural causes of illnesses that they traditionally blame on people's health apparently because they don't wish to know the natural causes.

I have been trying to get a public inquiry into my case and I wonder if anyone can help. I am physically not able to continue this for much longer. David Dixon etc

From the Oxford Medical Dictionary:

Ankylosis n. fusion of the bones across a joint space. Ankylosis is a complication of prolonged joint inflammation. Spondylitis n. inflammation of the synovial joints of the backbone.

Editor

From BBC Ceefax:

Why Work Could Damage Your Bones

US scientists say they have evidence that too much work could damage bones. Researchers from Temple University say tests on rats show highly repetitive action may damage tendons ligaments and bones.

Experts have been divided over whether repetitive tasks like typing can by themselves cause this damage.

Writing in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, the scientists say their study could help industry and medicine to tackle the problem earlier.

CONCERNING REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY

The term 'repetitive strain injury' doesn't accurately describe the condition that it refers to. A better term would be something like 'repetitive (or continuous) joint stress syndrome'.

From my own experience the problem is caused by activity that has the opposite effect of building up joints through healthy exercise. Some activities waste joints away. Activities that pump blood and oxygen into the joints build the muscles and tendons up and keep the joint strong and fit, whereas activities that lock tension into the joint repetitively or continuously starve the joint of blood and oxygen, and this causes the muscle wastage and ligament softening that goes with the condition.

For this reason, typing with a manual typewriter would be good for the fingers, while typing with an electric keyboard carries the risk of repetitive strain injury.

MEDICAL CAPITALISM AND ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE

In 1949 Aneurin Bevan and Clement Attlee were shocked at the cost of the NHS, and they wondered whether the scheme would work. Since then the NHS has grown into the third largest employer in the world, and this for the health of a small nation. I have learned from personal experience that allopathic medicine - the orthodox school of medicine - is responsible for this growth.

Allopathic medicine is founded on the principle by which its drugs work, giving relief to symptoms of illness without discovering or knowing the actual causes, and while this works effectively in short-term use, in the long term the drugs produce a spiralling exaggeration of the original symptoms and addiction. This is because the body reacts progressively against the drugs with the opposite effect. Twentieth century “medical” conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis have the characteristic features of allopathic addiction in their long-term development.

Allopathic medicine treats symptoms of illness by producing in the body the opposite biological effect of the symptoms, thereby annulling the discomfort. Our lack of knowledge as to the natural causes of the original conditions is due to allopathic diagnosis and illness classification practise, which work on the same principle as its drugs. It seems to me that the original causes of many conditions that are attributed to our health can be calculated quite easily, given that many are forms of illness that have developed in the twentieth century.

Through this school of medicine the public has acquired the belief that these conditions – and the damage caused by the treatment subsequently – are caused by the health of those with the early symptoms, and so the public is in a state of diagnostic auto-suggestion because it presently relies entirely on allopathic medicine for its knowledge about these conditions.

The worst thing about allopathic medicine is not so much the drugs (which are beneficial in short-term use) but the diagnosis. When a customer would want the information that he needs to recover his health naturally, allopathic information simply draws him into an illness potential that he would prefer to avoid.

After 100 years and more, it should be possible to calculate the causes of illness types that allopathic medicine attributes to our health. For instance, in the cases of multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, these conditions appear to be the same problem the other way around. In the case of MS, the health of a young person crashes under severe pressures of job and family responsibilities, and the resulting illness absolves the victim of responsibility and thereby relieves the stress situation. The illness seems to be a natural solution to the stress problem. With Parkinson's disease, judging by the cases of Muhammad Ali and footballer Ray Kennedy, the symptoms occur in people whose health and self-esteem have flourished in a high stress situation over a long period, and whose careers come to a sudden end. Their health as well as their self-esteem have become dependent on the stress stimulus that went with their professional success, and the loss of that stimulus is too sudden for their health to adapt. This explanation has been supported by an experiment in Honolulu which found that drinking coffee prevents Parkinson's disease. Coffee could well do this because its constituent caffeine generates a stress stimulus biologically and this would prevent the original symptoms from developing.

The medical profession (and the public too) actually refers to the degenerative conditions of the 20th century as "medical" conditions, and this is exactly what they are: they are illnesses caused by the orthodox school of medicine. We collect these medical conditions as we know them at the doctors. They are the consequence of allopathic treatment of the original symptoms and our ignorance of the natural causes.

Other 20th century illnesses where cause may be determinable are breast cancer (the habitual and continuous wearing of the bra), autism (TV and mass communication trauma in the growing young), and Alzheimer's disease (mental decay in the elderly caused by TV and the suburban life-style).

Other factors that may contribute to the causes of these conditions would be diet and genetic susceptibility. Another factor might be our increasing exposure to electricity in everyday life. A possibility is that just as thunderstorms and electricity need earthing, so might the daily build-up of stresses in the body for the same reason. By wearing shoes at all times from childhood we would prevent any such earthing from happening, so that a build-up of harmful energies in the body would result, and this could be a causative factor in all types of illnesses of this kind, including epilepsy, diabetes, cancers etc.

ALLOPATHIC MEDICAL ADDICTION

Allopathic medicine is defined as a school of medicine that treats symptoms of illness by producing with drugs the opposite biological effect of the symptoms. It has been the orthodox school of medicine since the late 19th century because of its success in short term treatments such as anaesthetics.

Allopathic medicine simply annuls the experience of the symptoms while leaving the causes intact and ignored. The problem with this remedy is that its beneficent value is limited to short term use, and in the long term it generates a chronic biological addiction in the body, the symptoms of which are a progressive exaggeration of the original symptoms. By treating the symptoms as a biological problem, allopathic medicine turns them into a biological problem with its drugs, and as the body naturally fights back at anything that opposes it in this way, the body generates the opposite effect of the drugs, hence the addiction. In this way the illness becomes the health of the subject according to the principle of allopathic diagnostic and illness classification practise, which follow the same principle as its drugs.

This addiction must not only effect those who are receiving this treatment on a long term basis, but also the health service that provides it and the public taxes that pay for this. Since allopathic medicine became the orthodox school of medicine we have seen a steady growth of chronic degenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis, while the cost of the N.H.S. and our taxes have always been rising, and the medical profession has been getting ever richer, and no one has noticed the significance of this trend because allopathic medicine is the orthodox school of medicine and forms our collective health psychology.

Through the illness classification and diagnostic practise of allopathic medicine, the public (every tax payer) has collected an illness prone psychology that accepts this growth at its own expense, and this is destroying the N.H.S.

I suggest the term Allopathic Medical Addiction to make my point. This form of addiction being due to:

• Ignorance of natural causes (which are usually caused by stress/diet/activity/lifestyle etc)

• The subject's susceptibility to the illness potential

• The auto-suggestive effect of allopathic diagnosis, which attributes the illness symptoms and subsequent damage caused by the drugs to the health of the public

• The drugs, which generate in the body a biological reaction against that of the drugs which creates dependency on the drugs to suppress this effect (the drugs turn the illness into a biological problem regardless of the original cause)

• Profitability and business growth

Concerning the NHS

It is presently not possible to bring a legal action against the medical profession. The procedure for compensation if treatment goes wrong is to sue the NHS, but this is unjust, because the NHS is not responsible for it. It is no more appropriate to sue the NHS than it would be for a private customer to sue his insurance company. The NHS is nothing more (or less) than a free health service for the population, paid for by everybody, and its purpose is to protect the unlucky from the costs of being ill. Customers of the NHS should be entitled to sue the medical body responsible instead. The medical profession should be accountable to both the customer and the NHS.

Calcified Repetitive Strain Injury.

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