Since my road traffic incident over 40 years ago I always had  muscle spasms (involuntary movements). My spinal cord injury is C5/6. I was a complete, but after starting laserpuncture, I began to get some feeling and small movements in parts of my body below the level of my injury; at first this was slight and one had to look closely to see it.

Up to March, 2006 the recovery I had was quite phenomenal. However, I must point out here that it is slow progress and is NOT a miracle cure. Mr Bohbot's laserpuncture manages to bypass the damaged spinal cord and send messages through the Meridian System (accupuncture points) to send messages to the body. As one receives these messages through the accupuncture points, it is very necessary to work hard with daily physiotherapy in order to use the messages to strengthen muscles that have been absent for any length of time.

One thing all patients need to be aware of is that laserpuncture works differently for everyone in terms of progress. Each person receives the same session, but the complicated nervous system deals with the healing process in it's own unique way. No two people with the same injury will get the same response to laser in the same amount of time. Each of us is an individual, and so our bodies heal in individual ways.

Here are the improvements that I had which I didn’t have before:

 1.      My upper abdominal muscles have came back, which helped me to cough and pull myself forward

 2.       I could pull my tummy muscles in and hold it for 10-15 seconds while breathing in and out.

 3.       I could lift my head off the bed when I lay on my tummy just enough to turn side to side

 4        My left thumb extended and closed to give me a strong pinch grip.

 5.       I could close my fingers in and slightly open them

 6.       My balance improved so much that I no longer fell sideways in my wheelchair.

 7.      The sensation came back to normal in my feet and other parts of my body.

 8.      The triceps in my right arm got stronger which helped with my transfers and lifting    

    up in my wheelchair, and I could stretch my arms up high to get things.

 9.       The quadriceps in my left leg came back a bit so that I could extend it and hold for a few seconds

10.     The new movement in my hips helped me to lift my legs better when I walked in callipers.

11.     I could cycle on a bike at the clinic; part of this is 'active' and part 'passive' movement.

12.     I could move my left ankle slightly.

13.     Hot and cold sensation came back in parts of my body.

14.     I could feel water being poured onto my body in some parts below the level of my injury.

15.     I could feel sharp pin pricks in some parts of my body.

Since I began going to the clinic in France in 2001, I have seen other patients who have experienced a variety of movements including back and tummy muscles, bladder and bowel function returning, better balance, ankle and other movements in their legs. I've seen patients go from full length to half length callipers as their muscles get stronger.

Ginny Haymond

23rd August, 2007

Update of July 2009:

Stoke Mandeville referred me to a dermatologist from Amersham Hospital in April 2009. I was diagnosed with the worst type of eczema + ongoing chronic urticaria. That healed with cream A-derma that Albert Bohbot gave me and ointment Elocom. I take Loratedina tablets, anti histamin, twice a day to keep urticaria and eczema at bay.

I went to Stoke Mandeville outpatients and Mr. Newton, who is an orthopaedic stroke spinal injuries consultant, said my left foot had been fractured and he will remove the titanium plate and screws. I'm now a waiting list.

The right leg was permanently swollen for several months. Mr. Newton thinks it was/is a deep vein thrombosis. I came home Monday 27th for my first treatment and, since then, it's gone right down.

I've also found that my body is detoxing.

Update of March 2010

I went to the Amersham Hospital and the dermatologist did the allergy test. He confirmed that the rash was 'ongoing chronic urticaria'. I was put on Loratedine and anti-histamin tablets and the rash finally went after 9 months.

In September I had pain, like a knife stabbing, from my left shoulder blade to the front. I also had a viro infection in my lungs and was admitted to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital from the 17th of December to the 14th of January. The consultant said the pain was due to the virus in my lungs. I also complained to him about the pain in my abdomen. I went home for three and a half weeks with pain still in my chest and my abdomen.

I was admitted back on the 7th of February to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital because the pain in my abdomen was worse. They did a cystoscopy on my bladder and CT scan on my abdomen up to the diaphragm. I was found to have a clot in the main vein leading to my heart and subsequently put on warfarin tablets. I was sent home on Tuesday 23rd of February 2010. I was given paracetamol and oxynorm tablets to control the stomach pain. Today, the 4th of March, after 5 treatments of laserpuncture, my stomach pain is minimal and the chest pain has completely gone.

During my last laserpuncture treatments, I had very cold feeling from inside and tingling in my right foot and up the back of my leg, plus pins and needles in my right hand. The pins and needles in my right foot continued for several hours after.

Dr. Bohbot does not only help to get functions back but also helps to get rid of my pain each time I come.

With reference to March 2006 when a cyst in my neck was removed by a London hospital and left me paralysed from C5-6, the tests performed on Thursday the 4th of March 2010 with electromyography monitoring at the clinic has shown that my triceps have recovered and I can now lift my body weight on my left arm.

Update of June 2010

Since I came back to Dr. Bohbot's clinic, I have seen some improvements that I have not seen in four years since I had an unsuccessful operation to remove a cyst at the Royal London Hospital in London, in which I became paralysed down the left side.

My balance has improved, I can pull myself forward and put my arms out to the side without falling. Pulling myself forward in the wheelchair shows me that my tummy and back muscles have improved.

I returned to Dr. Bohbot's clinic on Monday the 31st of May and had 4 treatments up to Wednesday the 2nd of June 2010. After my treatment, on the 2nd of June, I discovered that the movement I once had in my left thumb before my surgery at the Royal London has returned. On Thursday the 3rd of June I noticed that I could use my mobile phone a lot easier, pick up my own tablets and open a sandwich box with my newfound movement. It's amazing what one can do with grip in the thumb.

Dr. Bohbot's laserpuncture treatment is also good to help with my Deep Vein Thrombosis, and I hope by the time I return to the clinic for more laserpuncture treatment in September, that positive results will come from this and my thrombosis will be much improved.

I know that Dr. Bohbot's treatment works; the important thing about this is NOT to give up, and to allow the laserpuncture treatment time to work.

16th September 2010

This morning when my feet were soaking in the bath, my friend moved my legs from side to side, and for the first time since my operation in March 2006 when surgery on a cyst on my neck left me paralysed down the left side, I discovered some recovery.

I can now feel my left foot being moved forward and back, and side to side. Also, I can feel my toes being touched and a hand on either side of my left foot. I felt when my friend touched underneath my foot - she pressed hard but it felt as a light touch to me. However, I cannot feel normal touch on the skin, but when the bath water was drained away, I could feel vaguely the level of the water going down.

Of this visit to Dr. Bohbot's clinic, I have so far had only four laserponcture treatments, and still have three more to go. Who knows what will happen after the next three laserponcture treatments?

23rd October 2010

I saw the doctor about coming off the Warfarin Tablets on 22nd September, and she said that the Thrombosis was in my right leg, and not in my left leg as I thought. I am happy to be off the warfarin now.

9th March 2011

I have observed recently that whenever I come to Dr. Bohbot's clinic during the first few days of treatments my body detoxes. I begin to have a feeling of well-being. It's as if I become more wholesome because I feel more healthy.

Several times when I have left England feeling unwell, I have confidence in knowing that when I go to the clinic for Laserpuncture treatment, I will get better during the process.

In the past I have had recurring kidney infections, usually these will only go if I take antibiotics. However, the Laserpuncture treatment works in such a way that my body seems to have its own way of fighting the infection and the healing process takes place. It is not coincidence, because this has happened several times. It is obvious to me that the Laserpuncture not only improves the spinal cord function, but also strengthens the immune system so the body can fight.

When I first started coming to the clinic in June 2001 I did not observe immediate results. This is a slow process and it works differently for everyone, but as I have continued to come over the years my body has become more receptive to the Laserpuncture treatment, so that now the improvement is more obvious and recovery is a lot quicker in spinal functions as well as good health.

17th March 2011

I have also noticed a difference in feeling down my left side since my operation in 2006 which left my left side paralysed. When I lie on my tummy I can now feel my knee and thigh against the bed, which is new. Since this new treatment of putting the laser heads on the back of the legs and feet, I can feel pressure coming from inside my leg as the treatment is in process.

There was a new test with what I call “the monkey game”, electronic neuro-training, and I have done this twice, first with my hands and secondly on my tummy. I have discovered positive movements in my fingers and left thumb and in my upper abdominal muscles which I can hold in for fifteen seconds. It's now easier to self propel my chair.

I leave the clinic tomorrow full of hope and very happy. Merci beaucoup de toute votre aide Albert Bohbot.

Albert gives me “hopes and dreams”.

18th October 2011

Since the abdominals came back in March, I have been doing regular tummy exercises which have increased over the weeks and now, six months later, I can hold my tummy muscles in against pressure twenty-three seconds in one time and I do that ten times each day. And I can also pull myself forward using my tummy muscles whereas before I needed help to do that. Also, I have noticed, I can balance a lot better due to the strength that has now returned to my tummy muscles.

I was in hospital in England from 2^nd to 5^th of October with a severe kidney infection. The Luton and Dustable hospital pathology report showed that I was resilient to many antibiotics and the two I was sensitive to are Amikacin and Meropenem. I was told that these can only be given intravenously which for me is a huge problem as my veins are too small to get the needle in to accept the antibiotics, as they tissue which leaves me with blisters where the needle has been introduced into the vein, and it takes many months to heal. On Wednesday 5^th of October my dad died and I discharged myself from hospital which left me in the hands of my General Practitioner. Despite all efforts, I was unable to get the antibiotics I was told I needed; which was Amikacin as this could in fact be given to me by my district nurses from my surgery intramuscular (IM).

Although I was very ill with a kidney infection, I still went to France to receive Laserpuncture treatment from Dr. Albert Bohbot for two reasons :
1. I was booked in already from 10^th to 21^st of October
2. I believed that the only person who could help me now was Dr. Bohbot with his Laserpuncture treatment.

On Monday 10^th of October, I spoke to Dr. Bohbot and he suggested I give it a week of Laserpuncture treatment before having any antibiotic injections. During that time, I asked Dr. Bohbot to look up Amikacin to see if it had any of the antibiotics that I am allergic to. He said it had streptomycin in which is an antibiotic I am allergic to. The dip-stick urotests were taken every day at the clinic and recorded, after 6 days I was completely cleared of infection in my kidneys. Had I been given Amikacin injections, I could have gone into anaphylectic shock and the kidney infection could have caused septicemia which could both have killed me. In my opinion, Dr. Bohbot saved my life.

It's been years since I had my accident and during that time whenever I had a chest infection, the only way to clear it was by having antibiotics. My spinal cord injury is C6-5 which means that I don't have the muscle power to cough up phlegm when the infection lays on my chest. Because my immune system was so low when I arrived at the clinic in La Chapelle-Montlinard, I caught a chest infection but, as with the kidney, my chest infection cleared in 6 days.

4.2. Walking

• 2001: KAFOs made by Mr Miallet in Bourges, France. Is able to walk in her KAFOs and push a walker until April 2002, date when she fractured her right fibula and tibia. Has not walked again since then because of a titanium rod and screws in her right leg.
• Since June 2001, regular and constant improvement of the strength in her triceps (can lift herself up from the chair to grab objects above her).

5. Sensibility

• Light touch:
  28 Aug. 2003: feeling of touch as pins and needles in patches all over her body.
• 29 Oct. 2003: normal sensation to touch all over her body except on buttocks, intern side of lower limbs and calves where it is weaker.
  Feels the water on her skin in patches below her SCI level.
• Pressure:
  28 Aug. 2003: feels pressure as pins and needles in her buttocks, feet, intern side of the forearms, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th fingers, right and left legs.
  20 April 2004: feels pressure more normally all over her body.
• Pain:
  28 Aug. 2003: feels the pain deep in her muscles and bones when she knocks herself.
  20 April 2004: feels pain all over her body but altered in her buttocks, pelvis, hands, forearms (C8-T1-T2) and legs (L4-L5).
• Hot:
  20 April 2004: cutaneous sensibility to hot water all over her body except on her buttocks, pelvis, inside her arms, forearms and hands (4th finger - C8-T1-T2 dermatoms), and calves (L4-L5 dermatoms).
• Cold:
  28 Aug. 2003: spasms when water is cold.
  20 April 2004: feels the cold all over her body.
• Proprioception:
  Aug. 2001: 2 months after her first laserponcture® sessions, can feel the weight of her body in her feet, knees, hips and trunk when she stands in a frame.
  Aug. 2003: feels knock in her bones and muscles.
  Aug. 2007: feels which direction her left leg is being moved into.

6. Viscéral