March 7, 2013 13:00 — 2 Comments
Selective Peripheral Neurotomy Ends Paralysis for Wheelchair-Bound Man
After four years confined to a wheelchair due to paralysis, Rick Constantine is walking again after an alternative procedure that restored use of his leg. Constantine, who had suffered a paralysis-causing brain stem stroke after an auto accident, was told he would never walk again. However, after neurosurgeon Justin Brown, MD, performed a three-hour selective peripheral neurotomy, Constantine was walking within days and even completed a one-mile race without assistance. For more information, click here to read the full article.
dear prof.
Thanks a lot for your valuable feedback about this marvelous procedure, I am really so minded with it and i have performed more than 700 procedure of different types of neurotomies. i present my early results in WFNS, 2009 meeting in Boston. https://www.aans.org/Media/Article.aspx?ArticleId=59457
i will appreciate to share results
best regards
Walid Abdel Ghany
Consultant and Lecturer of Neurosurgery
Ain Shams University- Cairo , Egypt
Member of the AANS
Member of AACPDM
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Nice job on perfectly selected case.
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