Dr. George Goodheart D.C.

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Dr. George Goodheart D.C.
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ICAK Meeting Antwerp September 2008
How Applied Kinesiology can help in Treating
chronic Borreliosis
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Patients with diffuse symptoms

• Vegetative Symptoms
• Tiredness, fatigue
• Sweat at night
• Shivers
• Attacks of fever
• Feeling sick
• Reduced and poor endurance
• Intolerance of alcohol and food

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Patients with diffuse symptoms

• Cardial Symptoms
• Palpitations
• Mayo- or Pericarditis
• Intestinal Symptoms
• Nausea, gastralgia, burp
• Flatulence
• Diarrhoe

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Patients with diffuse symptoms

• Musculo-skeletal Symptoms
• Arthralgia of changing localisation
• Myalgia
• Feeling of stiffness in the muscles
• Tendinitis with or without swelling, especially
  Achilles tendon, Epicondylitis, plantar fascitis
• Recurrent swelling of fingers, toes and hands
• Pain of the sterno-chondral junctions of the ribs
• Pain of TMJ

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Patients with diffuse symptoms

• Neurological Symptoms (central)
• Disturbed vision ( blurry, wash out, aching
  eyeballs, aching eyemovements, sensitivity to
  light )
• burning tounge
• Tinnitus, vertigo
• Headache, unilateral and diffuse without relief
  by analgetics
• Loss of concentration, loss of memory, reduced
  perception
• Disturbed sleep
• Depression, irritability, anxiety, fluctuation of
  mood

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Patients with diffuse symptoms

• Neurological Symptoms (peripheral)
• Paraesthesia of limbs
• Disturbed superficial sensation, hyperpathia
• Backpain, sciatica
• Sensitivity of scalp ( aching hairs when
  combing )
• Muscular twitching
• Sudden weakness in the legs

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Patients with diffuse symptoms

• Urogenital Symptoms
• Burning aches in the bladder, pollakisuria
• Pressure sensation in the bladder
• Incontinency, disturbance of micturition
• Loss of libido
• Impaired potency
• Recurring aches of testicles, ovaries, vagina

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These patients may havechronic borreliosis !!
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Germ of Lyme Disease
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato
Spezies B. burgdorferi sensu stricto B.
garinii B. afzelii
Carrier hard ticks (Ixodes ricinus) (Attention
the ticks transmit CEE, only for this
vaccinations are available)
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Possible Infections by Tick bite

• CEE
• Borrelia
• Ehrlichia
• Bartonella
• Rickettsia

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Epidemiology of Borreliosis

• in Germany 10 to 40 of ticks are infected
  with
• Borrelia
• for an successfull contamination the ticks should
  suck up to
• gt 6 hours
• (the shorter , the more unlikely are
  infections)
• ? Infections from April to October
• early manifestation in June - peak at August
• In Germany annualy up to 60.000 new infections
• with clinical manifestations

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Infection by ticks (Ixodes ricinus)

• Early onset
• Erythema migrans (50 of all cases)
• Influenzalike symptoms
• Cephalgia
• Facial nerv palsy
• Cardial arhythmia

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Conventional Medicine says

• Most valid diagnosis by skin biopsy or
  arthrocentesis of joint effusion
• Assay of IG G and IG M of Borreliosis is only a
  presumption diagnosis
• 
  Prof. Stanek,
  University of Vienna
• Ärztemagazin, July 2008
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Borrelia burgdorferi Course of Infection
Bite of a infected tick
Transmission of Borrelia
Infection
Local breeding of Borrelia
5 - 48 days
Stadium I
Period of 4-6 weeks, Autotherapy very likely
4 -12 Wo. p.i
Stadium II
Period of 4-6 months Autotherapy still possible
Moths till years p.i.
NO autotherapy !!
Stadium III
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Labratory

• If IGM and IG G of Borrelia are positiv remains
  the question
• Expired infection or active infection?
• Indication for LTT to Borrelia
• Lymphocytes Transformation Test

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Lymphocytes Transformation Test

1. Extraction of lymphocytes and monocytes out
   of heparinized blood by densitiy-gradient
   centrifugaionfugation

2. Transformation of 1,2 x 106/ml vital cells
on to a cell cultural kit (3 times)
3. Adding of antigenes of Borrelia (z.B. OspC)
4. Incubation for 6 days, 37C, 5CO2
Day 0 sleeping T-cells
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Result afer 6 days
Negative result
Positive result
clonal prolifeated antigen- spezific
T-Lymphozyten
5. Quantification of antigen-induced
DNA-newsynthesis by assay of
3H-Thymidine-built-in
6. Measurement of DNA-Newsynthesis in
Beta-Counter
7. Outcome as SI Antigen-induced
T-built-in blank
measurement-T-built-in
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Result of positive LTT
Are Borrelia-spezific memory- T-cells in the
blood of the patient ?
a positive LTT of Borrelia says There are
Borrelia- spezific T- memory-cells in the blood,
the infection is active!! After a study of
Hopf-Seidel on 210 Patients,2007, 9 of the
patients had negative serum findings but positive
LTT! Every tenth of patients has false negative
findings! Donta is reporting 2002 of 20 negative
false findings in serum assays
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Hypothesis of persisting or chronic Borreliosis

• Insufficient diagnosis and therapy ( often in
  conventional medicine )
• Inducing of immunogene reactions by Borreliosis
• ( Prof. v. Baehr )
• Persisting Neurotoxins in the fatty tissue (
  Shoemaker )
• Hiding of parasites in the connective tissue (
  Donta )

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Therapies
Conventional Medicine Penicilline, Ampicillin,
Tetracycline, Doxcycline, Ceftriaxone,
Cefaroxine,
Clarithomycine, Azithromycine, Ciprofloxacine for
a
fortnight or 4 weeks Donta
Hihg dose antibiotics like a above, at least
1 month, when symptoms
were longer at least 3 month, when
symptoms last for longer than a
year, treatment should last
12 to 18 month, toegether with
CHLOROQINE, an antimalarial, (
Resochine, Quensyl ) Shoemaker
From 4 to 6 weeks high dose antibiotics mostly
Doxycycline
overlapping with colestyramine 2-4 g, when
complications
( Herxheimer reaction ) Enbrel
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Resume of problems in chronic borreliosis

• Serum diagnosis is not reliable
• Conventional therapies often dont treat
  sufficently
• Borreliosia can probably disappear from the
  surface
• In certain phases antibiotics dont reach the
  parasite
• Symptoms of chronic borreliosis are of great
  variety and not specific

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How can Applied Kinesiology help?
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Casereport

• 10 patients from 71 to 29 years
• Period of symptoms from 2 till over 15 years
• 7 patients have severe general symptoms
• ( fatigue, aching and swelling joints etc.)
• 3 patients have only local symptoms ( aching
  Achilles tendon, aching knees, aching fingers)
• 8 had negative serological assays of Borrelia
• 4 of them had an postive LTT and 4 had negative
  LTTs

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Casereport

• 4 patients, 2 with positive LTT and
• 2 with negative LTT of Borrelia showed
  Borrelia in the
• DARKFIELD MICROSCOPY !!

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Hypothesis and Results

• There are no really reliable labratory tools in
  veryfying chronic borreliosis
• There are clues for hiding of Borrelia
  spirochetes in the tissue, causing no immune
  reaction
• The most reliable labratory tool seems to be the
  Lymphocytes Transformation Test
• Remarkable results supplies the DARKFIELD
  MICROSCOPY
• Chronic Borreliosis seems more widespread than
  ever thought

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AK Procedure

• General and local muscletesting
• Any findings should negated by

• homeopathic nosode of low potency
• antibiotics on the tongue and CHOLOROQINE
• (mostly Minocyline, passing hematoencephalic
  barrier )
• 150 to 200 mg Minocycline per day and
• 200 to 400 mg Cholorquine every second day
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AK Procedure

• If improvement follow up examination should
  include, they should test normal
• TL of NV suprapinatus
• BE points
• All alarm points
• Local spots of pain
• Dont stop the treatment earlier, even the
  patient feels better

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Supplementary Therapy

• Nosodes of Borreliosis
• Rizol oils
• Colestyramine
• Vitamines ( A, C, E, D, B )
• Minerals ( Zinc, Calcium, Mg, Potassium )
• Support of organs by phytotherapy, especially
  liver, gut
• EFS ( linseed oil )

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Best thanks to Prof.
Rüdiger v. Baehr, Berlin Dr.
Ulrike Lex, Nuremberg for their contributions
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Thank you for your attention !!
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Adress

• Dr. Werner Kloepfer
• Alserstrasse 43
• A- 1080 Wien
• E mail werner.kloepfer_at_ spai.at