Possible nonbacterial causes include a viral infection (which will not respond to an antibiotic), a connective tissue disorder or an allergy, Dr. Edson said.
The journalist Norman Cousins, who successfully fought a degenerative tissue disorder with a regimen of Marx Brothers movies, "Candid Camera," and Vitamin C, became, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, an icon of "the power of positive thinking" to cure disease, and, ultimately, a central player in the establishment of psychoneuroimmunology as a medical discipline.
The two main theories as to the underlying cause of SCSFLS are as a result of a connective tissue disorder or spinal drainage problems.
Various theories exist as to whether people who sustain carotid and vertebral artery dissection, even if not suffering from a connective tissue disorder, have an underlying vulnerability.
Background context: Marfan syndrome is a connective tissue disorder that results from a defect in the production of fibrillin.
In only about 10percentto20percentcent of cases is there an apparent underlying cause: an abnormality, present at birth, in the development of the spine, as happened to Erin; a spinal tumor; a neuromuscular disorder like polio or muscular dystrophy; a connective tissue disorder like Marfan's syndrome; cerebral palsy; spina bifida; or radiation therapy to the spine.
Zip13 is of particular interest because mutations in humans are associated with a sub type of Ehlers-Danlos, a connective tissue disorder.
Marfan syndrome is a connective tissue disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance and a prevalence of 1 : 5000 [ 19].
I have Marfan syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that is often referred to as a congenital heart disease, because the most important connective tissues in the body are in the heart.
Lady Solaris is an LA-based dominatrix and sex educator with a connective tissue disorder, among other impairments.
