Stumbled across this blog, seemingly from a young, American woman who is undergoing some type of decompression surgery with the intention of starting up on the Kunming Walking Program at the private hospital of Dr. Zhu Hui:
http://chinaquaddiaries.org/
Dr. Young I know these doctors are responsible for their own actions (although some of them are associated with the ChinaSCINet trials) and they don't seem to be offering UCBMC injection as a treatment... But isn't it a bit premature to be charging complete, chronic SCI (it seems) to do a walking program? I guess detethering/decompression could be justified on its own... But as far as I know there is not yet any evidence that walking programs for these types of patients leads to functional recovery. I suppose this only makes you more eager to get the result of the trial analyzed and published... Because I know one of the main reasons for the trial was to discredit groups that charged for unproven therapies.
http://chinaquaddiaries.org/
Dr. Young I know these doctors are responsible for their own actions (although some of them are associated with the ChinaSCINet trials) and they don't seem to be offering UCBMC injection as a treatment... But isn't it a bit premature to be charging complete, chronic SCI (it seems) to do a walking program? I guess detethering/decompression could be justified on its own... But as far as I know there is not yet any evidence that walking programs for these types of patients leads to functional recovery. I suppose this only makes you more eager to get the result of the trial analyzed and published... Because I know one of the main reasons for the trial was to discredit groups that charged for unproven therapies.
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