Patient P.S.,
born in 1945
Diagnosis: Paraparesis after paraplegia in April 1999
Neurological
report, provided by Dr. med. Ursula Mehregan, Bensheim, on 9 November
2005:
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I have been treating
Mr. S. since January 2000, after he completed his extensive clinical therapeutic
and rehabilitation treatment. Occasional subsequent examinations were
carried out until 2001 in the Neurological Clinic in Heidelberg. I arranged
a check-up examination in the neurology clinic of the Kurpfalz Hospital
in Heidelberg in 2004. My colleagues there recommended the use of the
Myofeedback device MfT Z². Throughout the entire long-term supervision
the patient took part in intensive physiotherapy excercises, under the
supervision of experts in neurological malfunctions. However, the patient
had over the past few years not made any progress any more, the excercises
merely helped to retain the status quo and to avoid further muscular atrophies.
After the Myofeedback device was first used in November 2004 the patient
almost immediately showed improvement. The supporting muscles in his torso
became considerable stronger and after only one week of treatment Mr S.
found it easier to stand upright. Walking (though still with the aid of
crutches) also became a lot easier. Mr. S. is now able to make his way
to my practice without anybody’s assistance. In his home he is able
to climb stairs again and does not need a special stair lift anymore.
Mr S.’s professional background as a trained technical engineer
meant that he had a particularly good understanding of how the device
works (he had even thought about how useful it would be to design such
a device before we knew it already existed!), and he therefore found it
very easy to use it.
My view is that it would be very advisable and useful to continue the
Myofeedback-treatment, because it is highly likely that various other
hypotone sceletal muscles can be activated and certain physiological movement
patterns re-activated. |
