Doctors measuring symptoms on a different scale were unable to detect any improvement, while MRI scans showed no change in the brain lesions linked to MS. This is not it.”‘There was absolutely no difference, no smidgen of a difference’ between the placebo and Liberation groups. The first phase, published in 2013, was a blinded study that found the neck-vein narrowing was equally present in MS patients and healthy controls. Patients responded afterward to the same questionnaire on MS symptoms that Zamboni used in his landmark study on the treatment. “There was absolutely no difference, no smidgen of a difference” between the placebo and Liberation groups, he said.

Source: National Post March 08, 2017 15:30 UTC