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 Barre-Lieou Syndrome
Ross Hauser, M.D.
Early in
his
career as a
Prolotherapy
physician in the 1950's,
Gustav Hemwall, M.D. noted some interesting phenomena
occurring after
Prolotherapy injections.
His patients'
neck pain
and
headaches
were relieved and to his surprise their dizziness, headaches, nausea, blurred
vision. In addition,
tinnitus
(ringing in the ears) was
also alleviated.
A few patients even experienced improvements in their vision. Other
serendipitous findings included improvement in paresthesias (pin pricking
sensations in the arms), generalized weakness, and ear, face, and tongue pain.
The reason for this was puzzling, until Dr. Hemwall learned about Barre-Lieou
Syndrome. In 1925, Jean Alexandre Barre, M.D., a French Neurologist, and in
1928, Yong-Choen Lieou, a Chinese physician, each independently described a
syndrome with a variety of symptoms thought to be due to a dysfunction in the
posterior cervical
sympathetic nervous system (a group of
nerves located near the vertebrae in the neck). The posterior cervical
sympathetic syndrome became known as Barre-Lieou Syndrome.
Symptoms that characterize the Barre-Lieou Syndrome: Headache, facial pain, ear
pain, vertigo, tinnitus, loss of voice, hoarseness, neck pain severe fatigue,
muscle weakness, sinus congestion, sense of eyeball being pulled out, dizziness,
fatigue, numbness. Other symptoms may include dysesthesias of the hands and
forearms (pins-and-needles sensation), corneal sensitivity, dental pain,
lacrimation (tearing of the eyes), blurred vision, facial numbness,
shoulder
pain, swelling on one side of the face, nausea, vomiting, and localized cyanosis
of the face (bluish color).
A reasonable question to ask is how can one disorder cause all of these
problems? The answer is that any type of vertebral instability or subluxation
can effect the function of the nerve cell aggregations located in the front of
the neck just in front of the vertebrae. The vertebral instability or
malalignment occurs because the
ligaments
that support the neck become injured. This is what occurs in the commonly known
whiplash injury. Not only do neck and headache pain occur with whiplash injury,
but also the signs and symptoms of Barre-Lieou Syndrome.
Treatment of Barre-Lieou Typically, headache sufferers take Cafergot,
Ergotamine, and Sumatriptin, to relieve the
migraine or cluster headache pain
because these vasoconstrict the blood vessels. The medications are, at best, a
temporary fix.
Prolotherapy to the vertebrae in the neck is the treatment of
choice to permanently eliminate Barre-Lieou Syndrome. This occurs because
Prolotherapy causes the vertebrae in the neck to move posteriorly (back) and no
longer pinch the nerves.
Ringing In Ear, Dizziness, Stuffy Nose
Why do people with Barre-Lieou often have ringing in the ears, dizziness,
and stuffy noses? It is because of an accumulation of fluid in the inner ear.
When fluid accumulates in the inner ear, as is often the case with an upper
respiratory infection, the ear feels full and the body feels off balance.
Ringing in the ear (tinnitus), spinning (vertigo), or dizziness can occur. When
Prolotherapy is performed on the head and neck conditions such as dizziness,
tinnitus, and vertigo (Meniere's Disease) can all be eliminated if the symptoms
are due to Barre Lieou Syndrome. Often, immediately after Prolotherapy
injections to the posterior head and neck areas, patients with Barre-Lieou
Syndrome, who have had sinus trouble for years, experience clear breathing which
they have not had in years. People using decongestants for years for "chronic
allergies" and "chronic sinus infections" are often immediately helped by
Prolotherapy injections into the head and neck region. The other symptoms such
as blurred vision, severe fatigue, dysesthesias (pins and needles down the arm),
low blood pressure, and low heart rate are easily understood by a decrease in
the output of the sympathetic nervous system of the head, neck, and face areas.
Prolotherapy injections to the head and neck region cause the vertebrae to
realign, which decreases the compression of the nerves. Upon realignment, the
Barre-Lieou Syndrome and its symptomatology are abated.
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