Steve
Testimony  

 

I first went to see Doctor Bohbot in Novembre 2001. It was a consultation to see if Doctor Bohbot would take me on as a patient. I am a T12 incomplete SCI with neurology condition but no diagnosis.

Doctor Bohbot studied my medical notes and said he would take me on, he wouldn't stand me on the first visit because I hadn't stood for nearly four years. The Doctor said if I stood I could do more damage to my pelvis, he recommended when I went back to England I get a special X-ray to see how my pelvis was holding up, to see if I had any deterioration.


As it was I had started to deteriorate, my own GP gave me medication to help. I went to see Doctor Bohbot the following April, he soon had me standing, only for a few minutes, then as the two weeks went by, I was standing for fifteen minutes or so, I felt wonderful to be standing again.

 


I carried on going back to the Clinic as and when we could afford it. After a couple of visits I bought some callipers in France and practice my walking as much as possible, I still practice when I can with help from my wife.

Without Doctor Bohbot and his treatment, I would never even think of walking, in England they said I had zero tolerance in my legs, and after a year they gave up working with me.
 


I don't know where I would be now if I hadn't been going to France to see Doctor Bohbot to have treatment and meet other people with similar injuries.

Steve IS

 

 

 
History  

 

 

 

 

DOB: 11 July 1958

Date of accident: 3 Sep 1998

Fell from a ladder

MRI shows no damage

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compte rendu hospitalier du National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Londres, 18 Aug 2000
+ Questionnaires from 14 Nov. 2002.

  • Motor system: head tremor;  normal reflexes with downgoing plantars.
  • Sensory system: nil below his waist.
  • Bowels: cannot feel when bowels are full; manual extraction of stools.
  • Bladder: atonic bladder; cannot feel when his bladder is full; 4 cath./day.
  • Intimate sensations: ejaculations but no erections.

 
Progress  

 

Limbs measurements Pinprick tests
 
29/03/05 03/08/06  

Beginning of treatment: 14 Nov. 2002

1. Independence

  • 27 May 2003: needs assistance most of the time; has an electric wheelchair which he uses full time.
  • 20 Oct. 2003: pushes his wheelchair without assistance; uses his electric wheelchair for shopping only.
  • Has a better sitting position in his wheelchair and moves better in bed since the beginning of his laser treatment.

2. Stability

  • Uses a standing frame since 21 May 2003; did not stand since Oct. 1999.
  • 20 Oct. 2003:
    Feels the weight of his body in his feet + tingling in his knees and hips when stands in a frame (twice a day).
    When he is at the clinic, stands between bars in KAFOs 20 minutes a day; feels the weight of his body in his feet, knees and ankles.
  • 6 April 2004:
    Stands in a frame 1 hour every day: feels the weight of his body in his feet, knees and hips.
    Feels he has more balance in his wheelchair.
  • 19 Aug. 2004:
    Feels the weight of his body above his navel when he stands in a frame or parallel bars.

3.1. Voluntary locomotricity

  • 19 Aug. 2004: volontary movement of his two hips.

3.2. Walking

  • 20 Oct. 2003: did 5 steps between the bars in his KAFOs; has his own KAFOs made-to-measure since Oct. 2003.
  • Can take 4 steps with a walker in his KAFOs since 19 Aug. 2004.

4. Sensory level

  • Light touch:
    19 Aug. 2004: feels tingling, pins and needles, and electricity below his injury.
  • Pressure:
    19 Aug. 2004: normal feeling on his lower limbs, buttocks and feet.
  • Pain:
    Has no more pain in his back since his first laserponcture® treatment.
    6 April 2004: blunt feeling in his lower limbs.
    19 Aug. 2004: feels pain like tingling and electricity in his feet.
  • Hot:
    19 Aug. 2004: from time to time feels hot water or warmness from the sun or radiator like tingling and pins and needles.
  • Cold:
    19 Aug. 2004: coldness triggers goose bumps on his lower limbs.
  • Pinprick:
    19 Aug. 2004: feels tingling in his lower limbs, buttocks and feet.
  • Sweating:
    19 Aug. 2004: below his injury from time to time if he does physical excercises.
  • 6 April 2004: wants to stand up.
     

5. Bowels and bladder

  • Bowels:
    6 Nov. 2003: normal feeling when bowels are full + pain in his back.
    6 April 2004: manual extraction of stools + uses 2 suppositories per week; can hold stools; easier to empty his bowels.
  • Bladder:
    Since Feb. 2003, Steve feels when he passes water.
    6 Nov. 2003:     normal sensation when bladder is full; Steve feels when he introduces the catheter.
    6 April 2004: when is bladder is full, can pass water normally by pushing on it with his hands + always checks with a catheter.

  • Intimate sensations:
    20 Oct. 2003: uses cialis for erections.
    19 Aug. 2004: has feelings during sexual intercourse; has tingling and burning in the glans.

    Last update: 20 Nov. 2008

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