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Date of birth: 15
Jun 1977
Date of
accident: 17 Nov 2001
Car accident
Level of injury: T7
flaccid complete
- Motor system: no movement below T7.
- Sensory level: no sensibility below T7.
- Bowels: feels when her bowels are full; evacuation by digital
stimulation.
- Bladder: feels when her bladder is full; 7 cath./day
- Independence: has knee-ankle-foot-ortheses (KAFOs) made-to-measure
in the U.S.A. but has never used them in the U.S.A.; needs no help for
transfers; can do her toilet, dress and cook without help; can drive an
adapted car.
ASIA scale
before OEG transplantation
MRI
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MRI
after OEG tranplantation
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Surgical removal of the glial scar over 3 cm,
there is no more neurone remaining in this area over 3 cm
(Photo: Dr
Lima).
The olfactory cells are injected in this cavity.
For more information about Dr Lima's OEG surgery,
visit
www.healingtherapies.info
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Limbs
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Pinprick
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Beginning
of treatment: 26 Apr 2004; End of treatment: 28 May 2004.
Number of sessions: 35 sessions, i.e. 17 hours and 30 minutes of laser
treatment.
Frequency: 1 to 2 sessions a day except on Saturdays and Sundays.
1. Independence
2. Stability
- 24 May 2004: can keep her balance for 2-4 seconds when she
stands in her KAFOs between the parallel bars - she does not hold the
bars.
- 26 May 2004: can keep her balance for 30 seconds when she
stands in her KAFOs between the parallel bars - she does not hold the
bars (she leans backwards (shoulders) to keep her balance).
- 28 May 2004: can keep her balance for 30 seconds in KAFOs and
stand straight (she does not lean backwards anymore - it is normal again).
3. Mobility
- 3 May 2004: feels the need to stand up immediately.
4.1. Voluntary movements
- 4 May 2004: beginnings of voluntary movement of the 2nd toe
in her right foot.
- 26 May 2004: beginnings of voluntary movement of the 2nd, 3rd
toes in her left foot.
- 4 May 2004: voluntary contraction of the quadriceps tendon
above the kneecap in her right and left legs + slight flexing and
stretching of the thighs (grade 2).
See videos.
4.2. Walking
- 24 May 2004: walking with her KAFOs between bars by pushing a
three-wheeled-walker, and on a treadmill.
- 24 May 2001: can ride a stationary bike forward and backward by pushing on the
pedals without any help to start or stop.
5. Sensory level
- Light touch:
13 May 2004: sensitivity altered below the SCI level; feels pins
and needles, pinpricks, tingling, electricity and pressure in patches.
- Pressure:
13 May 2004: sensitivity altered below the SCI level, feels pins
and needles, pinpricks, tingling, electricity in patches.
17 May 2004: normal sensation to pressure (digital pressure) in
the lumbar area; feels pressure in her buttocks when sitting on her
wheelchair.
- Pain:
13 May 2004: sensitivity altered below the SCI level; feels pins
and needles, pinpricks, tingling, electricity and pain in patches; feels
knocks in her bones, but not always in her muscles.
- Warmness:
13 May 2004: sensitivity altered below the SCI level; feels pins
and needles, pinpricks, tingling, electricity and warmness in patches;
can feel the warmth from a heater or from the sun.
- Cold:
3 May 2004: felt the cold of the tiles under her feet for the
first time; reaction to cold below the SCI level.
17 May 2004: can feel the cold (evaporation of surgical spirit)
from T12 to S3 on her back.
- Pinprick:
Does not know.
- Sweats under her SCI level when she does physical exercises.
- Feels the water running on her skin below her SCI level.
4. Bowels and bladder
- Bowels:
13 May 2004: feels when her bowels are full; normal evacuation of
stools by pushing on her abdominal muscles with her hands; digital
stimulation now useless.
- Bladder:
13 May 2004: feels when her bladder is full; feels when she
introduces the catheter (meatus); can pass water normally by contracting
her abdominal muscles; can hold the water for approx. 10 minutes (before
the laserponcture® treatment, she could not hold it more than 5
minutes).
- Intimate sensations:
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