21/10/2025
🔷💠Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Summarised💠🔷
🔷What is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis?
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis literally means “muscle pain with inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.” But the reality of ME goes far beyond its name.
ME is a serious, complex NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE that affects an estimated 30 million people globally. It causes widespread dysfunction across multiple systems in the body. It disrupts the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems, impairs cellular energy production and ion transport, and often causes significant cardiovascular abnormalities.
🔷What is the main symptom of ME?
ME has more than 60 symptoms. Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is the hallmark symptom of ME. It refers to the worsening of symptoms following even minor physical, mental or emotional exertion, with symptoms typically worsening 12 to 72 hours after activity and lasting for days, weeks, months or even years.
🔷How sick are people with ME?
The spectrum of ME ranges from mild to very severe, with patients experiencing fluctuations in symptoms and severity over time:
💠Mild: Even mild ME patients are gravely ill. Only 25% of ME patients can work with great difficulty. Mild patients have lost at least 50% of their functionality
💠Moderate: Moderate ME patients are mostly housebound and often require a wheelchair outside of their homes. Daily tasks like bathing and cooking are a struggle
💠Severe: 25% of ME patients are severe or very severe. Severe patients are completely housebound and often bedridden. Most are extremely sensitive to sound, chemicals and light
💠Very severe: Very severe patients are completely bedridden, experience extreme pain, are often tube-fed, and many suffer from periodic paralysis and/or seizures.
🔷TREATING ME WITH THE PERRIN TECHNIQUE™ The treatment manually stimulates the fluid motion around the brain and spinal cord by a combination of specific adapted osteopathic techniques and manual lymphatic drainage developed by Dr. Raymond Perrin which aids drainage of these toxins out of the cerebrospinal fluid.