Clinic for Manual Therapy
Results of treatment
of
Intracranial Hypertension (BIH)
and
some information

10 th. of April  2006 


  • More than 100 people with BIH treated in our clinic. (Please remark, that they are healthy, and without symptoms)
  • Causing elements found in all cases
  • Much more people ( than the statistic has registered ) have the disease - only few are diagnosed
  • Many people has BIH intermittent ( high pressure often stops when lying down on the back, closing eyes and relaxing ), and they are having the same symptoms and often daily attacks, just without the serious chronicle conditions that worsens, and demands a spinal tap.
  • Symptoms  are very different, at some people f.i., the dizzinesss is the only symptome that the patient is aware of.
  • If You can't have a treatment, it's possibly less painful to lay down and relax when the pains come, than having a shunt with the worsen of other pains and a generally little higher pressure, than the brain normally will adjust. (Also easier and better than a spinal tap)
  • Doctors must be aware of the fact, that a shunt surgery and having a shunt under the skin is trigging the Central Nerve System, and ends up with a higher level of alert in the CNS. By teaching the patient how to react, when the high pressure comes, the attack is possible to stop for a while. Without pain the patient gets a break from the pains, that  can be chronicle or daily with a shunt. (The patient won't have to think of having a resurgery or the next surgery.)
  • BIH is "working" in the spinal fluid, whereas the Migraine is "working" in the blood. 
  • We have more patients with BIH in the clinic, than we have with migraine.
  • Some has BIH as well as migraine (what comes depends on what happens first in the CNS)
  • Males don't cry - "headaches only for females" - 
    • more men in the clinic than in the statistic (still more females, just not 90% - rather 80% )
  • Milestone :  My daughter don't get high pressure, even if she is stressed and has a headache - BIH is possible to "cure", even thoug we know, that it can come back.         (Now we know, what to do, if  it comes back)
  • NEW INFORMATION !  Shunts CAN cause neuralgia - pains in the nerves in the shunt area. Sample on this in a female with the shunt placed in the parieto area. Patient had more headaches - several kinds of headaches - after having a shunt (She is now since 2004 without shunt, and her BIH is under control.)
  • The fear of "what happens in my head", which almost all the patients are having - is a fact worsen the condition.