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The author is firmly convinced that by relaxing the pons and the spinal cord a number of disorders of the central nervous system are rendered accessible for symptomatic treatment, amongst them, intraparenchymal affections. Just which of them, and how many cases of, for instance, multiple sclerosis and sequelae of spinal cord injury can benefit from this method can only be established by practical experience. The accumulation of such experience is a challenging task.
A number of misconceptions have hitherto stood in the way of a realistic assessment of the tensile forces to which spinal cord tissue is submitted during functional movements of the spine in the presence of unyielding pathological changes. An insight into what happens in reality opens up a new practical approach to treatment, namely relaxation of the spinal cord by a fascia lata graft and where necessary, elimination of the pincer action by resection of the offending structure.
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Breig, A. The therapeutic possibilities of surgical bio-engineering in incomplete spinal cord lesions. Spinal Cord 9, 173–182 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1971.29
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