User:Mikaelnordfors

Mikael Nordfors (b. 22 December 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a medical doctor with special interest in psychiatry and orthopedic medicine, and is co-author of the American bestseller Hypericum & Depression. He is also a musical composer/performer, having produced four CDs of symphonic synthesizer music named No Limits, Eternal Voyage, Take Off and Lux Eterna.

He was one of the founders of the DemoEx political party in Vallentuna, Sweden, who for more than 4 years have been practicing Dr. Nordfors' ideas on direct democracy combined with delegated voting in a real political setting. He has been invited to many international conferences such the world political forum, Turin (chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev), the democracy collaborative, Washington DC (Benjamin Barber), The National Democratic Institute (Madeleine Albright), The World Social Forum and The International Conference for Chief Justices in Lucknow, India.

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After the success with Hypericum & Depression, he became interested in promoting other alternative medical treatments, with a high potential for helping and healing many people. He has been mainly focused on the Piriformis Syndrome, Ibogaine as an alternative drug interruption treatment, Ketamine as an alternative treatment for depression, and the alternative cancer drug Ukrain.

He has without success been trying to convince the Norwegian and Swedish health authorities that the Piriformis Syndrome is one of the most common diseases all categories, data that recently has been confirmed by other independent sources (PMID 15739520; PMID 17030664). These controversies has ended in several lawsuits, where he two times defeated the defeated the Swedish Health authorities, who claimed that the there is no evidence that the Piriformis syndrome exists, in spite of hundreds of scientific publications showing the opposite. Anyway he received two warnings in Sweden and one in Norway for his frequent use of treatments involving the Piriformis muscle, or more accurately the Deep Gluteal area. As a consequence of this, he has been seriously scandalised and persecuted in media, with forced him to quit his job both in Norway and Sweden on many occasions.

He is currently trying to publish a report based on his own experiences as a general practitioner in Norway, showing that the Deep Gluteal Syndrome/Piriformis Syndrome was diagnosed in 187 out of 986 patients, giving a prevalence of 19.9%. One of the yet unpublished interesting data was that it was found in association with a range of conditions which present challenges to patients and their health practitioners. These conditions include lumbago, diffuse neck/shoulder/arm problems, hip and buttock pain, sciatica and diffuse lower abdomen/pelvic pain, fibromyalgia and tension headache. He is proposing a definition of Deep Gluteal Syndrome with tenderness and abnormal pain sensitivity in the Parasacrococcygeal area upon palpation per rectum as the first diagnostic criterium, and immediate disappearance of the above mentioned associated conditions after appropriate stretching, or injection with local anaesthetics into the tensed muscles. The syndrome can be treated with a probable success rate of more than 80%. The main treatments are exercise, stretching, massage, ultrasound, injections with Cortisone and/or Botox and in the most severe cases surgery. He believes that with education about appropriate diagnosis and treatment there is a huge potential for relief of suffering and financial savings to the health system. The treatment of Deep Gluteal Syndrome has been practised by many physicians all over the world since more than 70 years, and is not an invention of Mikael Nordfors.

His experiences of being persecuted because of his interest into non-conventional treatment methods, and the discovery that he is not the only one with this experience, has inspired him to start writing a book with the preliminary title "Orphaned treatments, the hidden goldmine for humanity?".