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Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the medical term for brain damage due to oxygen deficiency during or before the birthing process. Before birth, oxygen is obtained from the maternal circulation, via the umbilical cord. With our first breath, the umbilical cord closes, and we are on our own. A lot can go wrong in this process. The umbilical cord can kink, or the placenta, the link between the umbilical cord and the maternal blood supply, can detach from the uterine lining. Oxygen flow to the developing brain can be compromised. A mild reduction in oxygen supply can lead to developmental delays in the child, while a severe reduction in oxygen causes death of the developing brain cells. Problems in the birthing process itself, or respiratory problems after birth, can cause or aggravate the neurological impairments of Cerebral Palsy. The type and severity of a child's functional impairments is a function of which regions of the brain were oxygen deprived and for how long. Poor muscle tone and coordination is characteristic of CP. Brain neurons normally inhibit the contraction of muscle fibers; this inhibition is lost when the brain cells die, leading to muscle spasticity and contracture in the child with CP. In many CP patients intellectual and reasoning ability are intact. In others it is compromised; it all depends on the severity of oxygen deprivation and which brain regions were involved.

Therapy for CP is supportive - physical therapy, occupational therapy, bracing, and ergometric devices, all designed to help the child with CP get the most out of the function that he/she still has. Regenerating the brain cells lost due to oxygen deficiency is not felt to be possible - that is the classic teaching and that is what we were taught in medical school. CP is a condition that modern medicine, which thinks in terms of drugs and surgical intervention, can not reverse. Some doctors, however, don't necessarily believe forever what they were taught by their professors 30 years earlier, and they have tried to do what is supposed to not be possible, to restore brain function in patients with CP.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) has been utilized. HBO applies oxygen under pressure to the CP child. The oxygen levels in his/her blood skyrocket, forcing oxygen into the brain. I am not educated in this approach, but my understanding is that HBO resuscitates not dead cells, but a rim of dormant cells that surround a region of dead cells. In these cells oxygen deficiency prior to birth was not absolute; they didn't die but they didn't develop. By forcing oxygen into them, HBO can restore their function, leading to functional gains in the child with CP. It is my understanding, and again I am anything but an expert in hyperbaric medicine, that HBO does not generate new or replacement brain cells. In my way of thinking, HBO may help you get a little more out of what you have, but it won't give you anything new.

OK, if HBO can't give you anything new, could stem cell therapy? This is what everyone is interested in talking about. Here, pluripotential (they can develop into any cell type in the body) stem cells are harvested from an embryos and injected, or implanted, into a human with a dysfunctional or damaged organ system. Stem cell therapy will likely change medicine, and life on this planet. It's potential is huge, but it's not ready for human use, and it likely won't be ready for years to come. And, for many disease states, we don't think that embryonic stem cell therapy is even necessary.

Our internal organs all contain a pool of stem cells. Our cells are constantly growing, dividing, and dieing, a sort of biological "circle of life". Dead cells are replaced by new cells, which are derived from stem cells. The new cells mature and take up a functional role within the organ. In the heart, endothelial cells line the arteries and provide the teflon coating that resists plaque build up and clotting. Myocytes contract and relax, providing for heart pumping function. Nerve cells grow up to control the rhythm of the heart. Stem cells don't grow up. They serve as a self-renewing pool from which daughter cells can be recruited, as needed, to mature and differentiate into any cell type that the organ in question might need. We know that this is happening. Following a heart attack, the heart makes an attempt to regenerate itself from it's stem cell pool, but it doesn't do a very good job. Mother Nature never planned on her children developing arterial disease and experiencing heart attacks. Cardiovascular disease is clearly a disease of modern living. Evolution has not adapted to this disease process, so our hearts aren't very good at regenerating themselves. In contrast, the liver is a good regenerator. You can lose 90% of your liver and the stem cells of the remaining 10% will grow you a whole new liver. We're been eating bad food and drinking bad water throughout evolution. The toxins contained therein have been damaging liver cells. Evolution has adapted the gene pool such that our livers do a good job of regenerating themselves. Skin cells are constantly being damaged and sloughed off; they regenerate easily but the brain and heart are laggards. Please note that in contrast to the "pluripotential" embryonic stem cells, stem cells found within our organs are "committed". Heart stem cells can differentiate only into new heart cells, liver stem cells into new liver cells, etc. The brain has a pool of stem cells. They are found within the Hippocampus, a midline region, adjacent to the ventricles, which contains the cerebrospinal fluid that provides insulation and nutrition to the brain. In animal studies, where the animals brain has been damaged either surgically or with a toxin, it has been shown clearly that the application of a magnetic field stimulates the brain's stem cell pool to proliferate and migrate. It is estimated that it takes eight days for a new cell to migrate form the Hippocampus to a distant region within the brain.

In treating CP kids with MME, we think that we are stimulating Hippocampal stem cells to proliferate and migrate to the brain regions where cell death has occurred. The new cells take up residence, mature, and assume the function of that particular brain region. We can't prove this mechanism in humans (how could we - we'd have to carry out serial brain biopsies during MME treatment), but this is our theory. Theories such as this can be proven only by positive results when they are applied to the treatment of patients. As is said "the proof of the pudding is in the eating", so to support our theory we need to help kids with CP gain functions they never had. CP treatment outcomes obtained at the other centers are outlined elsewhere in this site. To this point (summer '06) we have treated three children with CP and their case studies are presented below. We will leave it to you to decide whether we are supporting our theory. And please remember, MME is not FDA approved. Just because one patient gets better it doesn't necessarily follow that other kids with CP will improve with MME. A lot more work must be done before out theory can be accepted as fact.

RG was born 9 weeks premature, unable to breath on his own for 3 weeks, unable to leave the Neonatal ICU for three months. RG is now 5 years old, but he has the functional status of a 1 year old. Verbalization is confined to "Mom", "Dad", and "Hi". RG just can't experience life like other 5 year olds do. RG interacts little with his siblings and other kids. He doesn't laugh when he should. His muscles cramp up in painful spasms; these occur 6-10 times a day, and last 10-30². RG sleeps poorly; he's up 3-4 times each night and once with each nap. His fingers are clenched in a tight fist; he is unable to grasp or manipulate objects. Baby food is spoon fed in and liquids require a baby bottle. RG can wave his arms and legs, a little, but he cannot stand on his own, and can take only a few steps in his walker. RG has received expert medical care and physical therapy, but this is as much function as he will ever have, because brain cells, once lost, cannot be regenerated. This is Cerebral Palsy, brain damage that cannot be reversed, functional loss that cannot be recovered. RG's Mother is a Mother, not a Doctor, so she thinks and feels as a Mother does. She didn't believe that nothing more could be done. She didn't accept the position that brain damage due to Cerebral Palsy could not be reversed, that more function could not be gained. She kept looking for something more for her son, and she found MME. Below is a time line of RG's progress during his first MME session:

Hours	Observation
40	Spasms markedly improved – 1-2/day and brief
40	Sleeping 6 hours at night and straight through during naps
60	Push up with his hands – Hands open, not clenched; some grasping
150	Ice cream incident
175	Boat swing incident
220	Motor - Using new muscle groups; trying to do new things: Moving to a toy, moving himself into a play tent, trying to grasp cup and spoon Cognition - More alert and interactive; humor and enjoyment of life
300	Break for four weeks and re-evaluate
4 wks	Further neurological gains

RG received 300 hours of MME over 7 weeks. Early on RG (and RG's Mom) slept poorly. Muscle spasms were a big issue, just as they have been for 5 years. By 40 hours, RG's Mom noticed a decrease in the frequency and severity of RG's muscle spasms and tremors. Instead of 6-10 tremors per day, each lasting 10-30², RG was experiencing muscle tightness only 1-2 times each day, and the episodes were brief and less intense. This improvement in muscle spasticity was accompanied by an improvement in RG's rest and sleep pattern. Instead of awakening once during each nap and 3-5 times at night, RG was sleeping, uninterrupted, for 6 hours each night and straight through at nap time. Following 40 hours of MME, RG was "sleeping like a baby". Think back to when your own kids were little. Remember how tired you were when your kid wasn't sleeping well and getting you up at night. Now put yourselves in the slippers of RG's Mom - up 5 times a night for 5 years, but after 40 hours of MME she's sleeping like the Mother of a 5 year old.

At 60 hours RG did something new. He pushed himself up off the floor using his hands. His hands were no longer clenched into a tight fist. He still couldn't use his hands to grasp objects, but he was trying to. This means that the function of the brain cells responsible for control of these muscle groups has been restored. We think that these "new cells" are descendents of Hippocampal stem cells that have been stimulated to proliferate and migrate by the MME induced magnetic field. We don't think that we are improving the function of dysfunctional brain cells. We think that we are creating new ones.

RG had never gotten into trouble at home. After all, to get into trouble you have to do something wrong. RG couldn't do much of anything, let alone something wrong. But after 150 hours of MME, we began to see some "bad behavior" on RG's part, and about this we are intensely pleased. RG likes ice cream. His nurse was spoon feeding him ice cream. The last scoopful in the box made it into RG's mouth, but he wanted more. RG can't ask for more; he doesn't have the vocal ability. What he did was to role on the floor towards his nurse; then he took aim and kicked her in the leg. Everyone was shocked, as RG had never done anything like this before. Then everyone started laughing, as this was a step (or kick) forward for RG, and the situation was funny. RG laughed too. This was actually not a step forward; it was a leap forward. It takes a lot of neurons talking to one another to plan out this action, execute it, and then to see the humor in the situation. This represents a cognitive, a thought process improvement in RG, not just the muscle tone and control improvements observed earlier.

RG loves to be pushed in his boat swing. He needs to be strapped in. He doesn't have enough muscle tone to keep his trunk upright and if not strapped in he will flop forward. The day following RG's 24th MME treatment, his nurse put him in the boat swing. RG sat up straight; he didn't need to be strapped in. He realized what was happening, experienced it as a good thing, and began to laugh and babble. They had to push him for an hour and a half. He didn't want to get out of his boat swing. He was having too much fun.

As RG continued with MME, a lot of good things happened. In RG's Mothers own words:

"In between these times and through out the therapy so far RG has become so much more alert, very active and trying to do more physical things on a daily basis (whether it be moving to a toy, playing with the bottom of the couch, moving himself into the play tent that he has learned to bat at the sides with opened hands, or now as he is being fed or given a drink he now tries to grasp at the cup or spoon). This all from a child that was given no hope and did very little"

"As his teacher has stated she hasn't seen him look so good, he is so alert and more active. His therapist has said "his tone is definitely better and so is his head control, he is looking so good". RG's hands are still much more relaxed and opened, head control is improved, tremors are hardly ever noticed, very active and much more alert and in tune to his surroundings. These are very small improvements but very much improvements that lead to a better and productive life for him".

I saw RG and his Mom in the office, four weeks out from his last MME session. RG's progress had continued. Control of his jaw muscles had developed such that he could now chew solid foods - no more baby food for RG. Instead of taking liquids from a baby bottle, RG was now drinking through a straw or using a sippee cup. He can't yet grasp the cup and bring it to his mouth, but he's trying to. RG also got himself into big trouble. He got his first spanking. Prior to MME, RG could not use his jaw muscles to chew or bite. When cuddling with his Mother he would kiss her, in the sloppy way that kids kiss their Moms. Well, this time RG bit his Mom. He didn't mean to. After all, how are you supposed to know the difference between a kiss and a bite when you are five years old and your jaw muscles are so week and your coordination so poor that you couldn't arrange a bite before now? The bite hurt and RG's Mom was startled. RG, as a small child might, found the situation amusing and began to laugh. RG's Mom did the same thing that you and I did when our kids bit someone for the first time - she spanked him. This was RG's first spanking, the first time he had enough muscle control to do something bad, intentionally, or in this case, unintentionally.

RG may continue to improve, even if we do not treat him with further MME. With other medical treatments, you are as good as you are going to get when the treatment is finished - not so with MME. In many (but not all) or our MME patients with neurological and cardiovascular disease, we are seeing ongoing improvement over their first 6 months post-MME. We think that we have stimulated stem cell or some other form of reparative activity that takes time to do its job. It has been the experience of the other centers that further sessions of MME lead to further function gains in Cerebral Palsy patients. RG will thus resume MME later this summer. We'll likely treat him for an additional 100-150 hours, take another break, and then treat him again. We do not know if there is actually a limit to the improvement that RG may gain with MME. Why should there be a limit? If some function has already returned, why shouldn't more? These are good questions and we intend to answer them. A reasonable interim goal will be for RG to be able to feed himself ice cream using a spoon. After all, we feel that the proof of the MME theory is in the eating of the ice cream.

MB's Mom had no problems carrying or delivering MB. Early infancy was unremarkable, but at 5 months MB's Pediatrician noted that her muscle tone was off. Soon after that tonic muscle tremors became apparent. An extensive workup was carried out, including a brain MRI and lumbar puncture for cerebral spinal fluid analysis, leading to the diagnosis of Hypomyelination Syndrome, essentially a form of Cerebral Palsy, and Infantile Spasms, essentially a seizure disorder. ACTH administration (hormone made by the brain that stimulates the adrenal gland to produce cortisol) quieted down the seizure activity for one year. Seizures returned, and responded well to Lamictal, an anti-seizure drug, but a severe rash developed. Topamax was substituted for Lamictal, with good results. Topamax was discontinued when MB turned 5, and to this point seizures have not recurred.

MB's neurological development has been slow and incomplete. A follow-up MRI study done in 1/05, just before MB turned 8, showed some improvement in myelin deposition (myelin insulates neurons and allows for rapid nerve conduction), but maldevelopment of the corpus callosum (permits one side of the brain to communicate with the other) and hippocampal-mesial temporal lobe (may be the cause or the consequence of repetitive seizures) had not improved. MB's muscle tone and control remains quite limited. Over a four year period, between ages 3 and 7, MB received 400 hours of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO), in separate 20 to 40 hour segments (You are placed in a chamber or small room where the air contains oxygen under pressure. The oxygen you inhale enters the circulation at a high concentration, and is from there forced into the cells of your body. The idea here is that dormant, but potentially still viable nerve cells will be revived back to normal metabolic function.). Early on HBO helped a lot - MB's toes stopped curling up, a little bit of grasping function developed, and she could lift up her head, but additional improvement did not follow latter sessions. MB cannot support her weight; in a walker she can drag herself one to two steps. She has limited use of her hands and cannot grasp objects. Dysfunction of the swallowing mechanism and gastro-esophageal sphincter (the one-way valve between the esophagus and the stomach) led to several episodes of aspiration pneumonia. A surgical procedure (fundoplication) to tighten up the gastro-esophageal sphincter was carried out. Since then there have been no episodes of aspiration, but MB has also stopped taking in liquids and does poorly with solids, necessitating placement of a percutaneous stomach catheter to allow tube feedings. MB's gaze is dysconjugate - her left eye wanders and doesn't track with the right - this is what happens when corpus callosum dysfunction doesn't allow the left side to communicate with the right. In addition, MB's neurologist felt that there was additional nerve damage within the left eye. When spoken to, MB typically doesn't respond, as if she is in her own little world. MB will draw your attention when she has a need, by making a whine-like sound, but she has never been able to vocalize in a meaningful way.

MB's Mom heard about MME from RG's Mom; they belong to the same parent organization. MB lives elsewhere in the Midwest but has family in NW Ohio. MB and her Mom came to Toledo and MB received 202 hours of MME over 17 evenings in 9/05. Good things are happening. MB's vision is now conjugate; her eyes move and track together. MB's ophthalmologist could not find any evidence of nerve damage within the left eye, and he's fitting MB with glasses (an astigmatism is present but before you couldn't tell because of the dysconjugate vision problem). MB is now taking in solids, such as carrots, peas, chicken, and Salisbury steak, chewing it up and swallowing with a little difficulty (but not aspirating it) and handling thick pudding as well. MB now seems to enjoy eating (eating can't be enjoyable when you can't chew and swallow well, neuromuscular actions the rest of us take for granted). Muscle tone has improved. MB takes a bus to and from school. There is a bumpy patch on the road home, and previously MB's head would flop to the side - but not now. MB's bus driver was all excited; she saw the difference in MB and wanted to know what was going on. MB's home nurse was shocked; she noticed the change MB's first day back. MB seems more aware of her environment; she seems to be looking around more. She's also more responsive - when you call to her, MB will turn her head and look at you. She seems to be making an attempt at vocalization - it's still a whine-like sound, but MB's Mom feels that MB is making the sound in a more organized fashion, like she's trying to use sound as a medium of communication. MB giggles when her Mom playfully teases her (a boy at school seem partial to MB). Maybe MB is responding to the tone of her Mom's voice or maybe, just maybe, MB is gaining understanding of language. At school, MB is shown large flash cards with a picture and a title. When asked to identify the picture cards with titles that start with the letter "P", MB got it right 83% of the time. MB can now walk, unassisted, for 15 steps in her walker. Grasping function has improved, and that's become a little bit of a problem, but a delightful problem. In the past, MB sort of ignored her sister. Now she grabs on to her, and she has no interest in letting go. MB is also reaching out of her stroller and grasping things, such as a potted plant in the check out line at the store, which subsequently came crashing down on the floor. The check out lady wasn't upset, but she thought it curious that MB's Mom almost broke out in tears (Life has many challenges, but not too many are as challenging as being the Mother of a child with CP. Imagine how you would feel, as a parent, when your child makes a breakthrough like that). The only real problem that has developed is that MB is awakening at 4 in the morning, crying out. She doesn't seem to be in any pain; MB's Mom soothes her and she goes back to sleep. We think that MB is having dream - maybe for the first time.

MB will take a 2-3 month break from MME, and during this interval we expect to see further improvement. Our thinking is that MME stimulates stem cells, and that it takes time for the stimulated stem cells to migrate and differentiate into functional neurons. MB will receive additional MME in the future, aiming to stimulate further waves of stem cell proliferation. My hunch is that function of the corpus callosum has improved, allowing the sides of the brain to communicate, such that visual tracking is now conjugate (again, I'm a cardiologist, not a neurologist, but this is what makes sense to me). Regardless of our theory and hunches, MB improved with MME, and she will likely improve further, and this might bring out tears in all of us.

2/07 Update - MB did improve post-MME, and she received 252 hours of additional MME treatment in 1/06 and 130 hours in 1/07. When I first met MB, she had a flat affect, her eyes were dysconjugate, and she really did no respond to verbal stimulation - now she smiles and giggles, her eyes track, and she is attempting to communicate and interact with others. Her grandmother had an interesting story - During a drive, MB had a cold with a runny nose. MB was in a car seat in the back of the car; her grandmother was driving. She slowed down and reached back with a tissue to swab MB's nose, and MB reached out and tried to grab the tissue - this type of purposeful interaction with others was not present before. In MB's Mom's words: "We began MME treatments again on 1/02/07. I believe we are seeing some more controlled hand coordination as well as an increase in eye contact. It is also possible that we are beginning to see some improvements with her ability to have bowel movements. MB has had 2 previous MME treatments with almost 600 hours. She will have over 700 hours as on 1/04/07".

LA is a 14 year old girl who is becoming a young lady. She's a delightful kid - smart, pleasant, and cute as a button. She's going to grow up, go to college - I bet she goes on to some form of professional school. In this process she will carve out time to get married, have a family, and make her mark on life. LA is going to mature and grow up, just as the rest of us did. But for LA this is going to be difficult, more difficult than it was for you and I, because LA is challenged by Cerebral Palsy.

LA was born at 40 weeks with a knot in her umbilical cord. Brain centers responsible for motor control and coordination were deprived of oxygen. LA demonstrated little spontaneous motion at birth. She was poorly responsive to physical stimuli. LA spent the first 10 days of her life in the neonatal ICU and for a period of time required mechanical ventilatory support. The doctors did a good job and LA was discharged home. Her Mom and Dad then did a good job. LA has physical impairments, but you can tell she's a well adjusted kid (er, sorry, young lady).

As stated, LA is a bright kid. School is going well and she is getting straight A's (well nearly straight A's - there's always that one teacher that has to come in with a B⁺). LA has a lot to say, but she has some trouble articulating her thoughts, as the brain center responsible for coordinated speech was damaged. LA walks best with braces on, but she veers to the side. If walking alone, LA will brush up against the wall of a hallway. If you walk with LA, she will hold your hand, as her Dad says, "with a death grip". LA does not have asthma or any respiratory difficulties, but when speaking she will sometimes run out of breath such that she can't get all her words out; this is all a sequelae of neonatal oxygen deprivation.

Our approach to LA was a little different than that applied to RG and MB, and reflects what we have learned over the past two years. My interest in regenerative medicine and MME has brought me into contact with some very interesting and bright people. They in turn have provided our MME program with ancillary measures designed to complement the energy enhancing and stem cell proliferating effects of MME.

1. Medical Bioresonance - An energetic practitioner told LA's Mom that LA had been affected, prior to birth, by a virus. I used to laugh at these practitioners, and ridicule any patient who listened to them and their "unproven therapies". Now that I am using "unproven therapies" to routinely help people to whom standard medicine has nothing to offer, I listen intently to what the energetic practitioners have to say. Energy Medicine is going to be the Medicine of the future. Just as the MRI has replaced exploratory surgery, energetic therapies are going to replace many drug therapies (at a fraction of the cost and with negligible risk). Medical Bioresonance is discussed elsewhere on this site (and in a two hour presentation that I give - available to you on DVD). The technique involves an analysis of energies (measured as specific frequencies of energy) that are emitted from your body. Healthy internal structures vibrate at certain frequencies and unhealthy structures vibrate at different frequencies; an analysis of these frequencies can point to problems within your physiology and anatomy. Non-human entities, such as toxins and infectious agents, will vibrate at non-human frequencies. If the frequency of a virus is present in your energetic body, then we infer that that virus is present in your physical body. Treatment involves the application of a neutralizing frequency (think of how a singer can shatter a glass by emitting a specific frequency from her vocal cords), delivered through band aid like patches worn on the skin.

LA's Bioresonance Evaluation revealed the presence of a frequency specific to a virus. It doesn't have a name, and is characterized by what is called its "Resonant Frequency". We then tested LA's Mom and found that she carried the same viral signature, but at a lower level, in her uterus. We have found evidence of a viral frequency with a slightly different Resonant Frequency in eight of twelve Autistic kids who have been tested (and so far in the Moms who have been tested). The same Resonant Frequency was detected in a patient with Spina Bifida and his Mom. The other four Autistic kids demonstrated frequencies consistent with a different virus, bacteria, or parasite. We think we are on to something very important. It may be that much of the neurological disease that affects children is actually viral in nature. Our theory is that a virus that may not affect the adult nervous system may devastate the physiology and nervous system of the developing child, leading to metabolic chaos or problems in the birthing process. This is theory, not fact, but we will keep our eyes, ears, and minds open and learn more. LA was treated with a patch that emits a frequency designed to neutralize this virus, as well a patches emitting frequencies designed to enhance tissue healing, enhance memory, and reduce stress. Her Bioresonance Evaluation will be repeated in several months, to make sure that the abnormal viral frequency signature has been cleared.

2. Stem Enhance - Our internal organs contain "committed" stem cells. There are no cells in our body greater than 10 years old. Every cell fulfills a function, ages, and then dies, to be replaced by new cells derived from the committed stem cell pool within that organ. Our stem cells are not designed for rapid regeneration. They cannot proliferate rapidly to help us recover from a stroke or heart attack. Neither Evolution or a Divine Creator designed us to experience stroke or heart attack, so she didn't equip us with means of rapidly regenerating these organs from their committed stem cell pool. We think that the static magnetic field of MME stimulates committed stem cells within the brain or heart to proliferate and migrate, to "go embryonic". This phenomena can be demonstrated in an animal model, and we think it is happening in humans (otherwise why would kids with CP improve?). The bone marrow contains "pluripotential", uncommitted stem cells that can enter the circulation and "land" in a diseased or dysfunctional internal organ or body region, and there help to "repopulate" that region with healthy new cells specific to that organ or region. In animal models, pharmacological stimulation of uncommitted bone marrow stem cells can help heal an experimental heart attack. Stem Enhance is a nutritional product that has been shown to increase the blood level of bone marrow stem cells (known as CD34⁺ cells) by 27%. If these cells land in the body region that we are treating with MME, then the regenerative effects of MME should be enhanced (I am taking Stem Enhance myself and love the stuff. Early arthritis in my fingers has receded and I am running like a 30 year old, not like a 50 year old. Many of my non-MME patients have begun this supplement and I am following their response closely). The use of Stem Enhance made sense to me, to LA, and to her parents, so LA began Stem Enhance as she began MME and she will keep up with it over the next few months.

LA began Bioresonance Therapy and she began Stem Enhance and she completed 300 hours of MME - and what happened - a lot! LA's speech has improved; when relatives or friends call on the phone they can tell that something has changed. LA is less likely to veer to the side when she walks. She no longer holds on to you with a "death grip". These changes occurred within three weeks. We anticipate that LA will improve even more over the next six months. LA's Mom kept a treatment diary which describes LA's gains far better than I can:

Thursday June 1st: Started treatment - she has been on the memory patch, HGH-4 patch and the stress patch since Tuesday. She is not feeling the best - guess that means its working. Didn't sleep well at all. Sick to her stomach and eats little, but is drinking a lot of water.

Friday June 2nd: Good night; she slept better. We go from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM. Her Dad seems to think that her walking and speech is slightly improved. Could it be already??? We will see.

Monday June 5th: Slept well. Speech is improving; not leaving off the end of her sentences.

Tuesday June 6th: Speech continues to improve at times, then at times I wonder...she is very laid back and relaxed - doesn't do much during the day. She is feeling better and eating better and not as nauseous. She has increased her drinking to 8 bottles a day.

Sunday June 11th: LA is doing well. I noticed during Prayer circle this morning, while holding her hand it wasn't as stiff and spastic. She was relaxed and didn't strangulate my hand as she usually does. Really cool!!! We messed around a little holding hands to see if she was any different - she even noticed it. Her speech isn't as good as it was but I can't put my finger on it. I think her breath support is better.

Monday June 12th: LA had her Grandma braid her hair and she noticed that it was easier to hold her head still. She said she still worked at it but it was much easier. Believe me that is quite a feat if you've ever done LA's hair.

Wednesday June 14th: LA had a message today. The therapist noticed that LA held still during the massage and she didn't giggle uncontrollably all during the massage. Before she had been very toxic and now she wasn't. She also didn't have trouble keeping the eye cover on her face, because her head was much more still. Wow - less spasticity and less toxic. I've never experienced this LA before.

Saturday June 17th: The hotel... we stayed the weekend as a family and for the first time LA walked a straight line. While walking down the hallway with her Father she held his hand without pulling or pushing or strangling his hand. She walked pleasantly down the middle of the hall. Before LA did what I call "dogtail" - you know - when the back of a vehicle pulls to the side and tries to go ahead of the front. She always held up the right side of the wall while walking down a hallway. It wasn't long. Dad needed to share the experience with Mom. I couldn't get enough of it - we did it several times.

Sunday June 18th: LA decided to try to stand on one foot and check her balance. It was very good on both feet. She pretty much obtained balance on either foot as long as she wanted to. 220 hours done and 80 to go.

Monday June 19th: LA had swimming lessons today. She had a full reach with both arms when swimming. In comparison to last year it was not even the same LA. Both arms stretched out in front of her and she even has tried the backstroke. It is very hard but is starting to be a possibility. Lat year she couldn't even attempt to do it.

Tuesday June 20th: Stayed for 13 hours last night; we are trying to get in a few extra so we can be done on Saturday instead of Sunday.

Thursday June 22nd: LA started her custom parasite patch today. We're ready to be free from that nasty virus. Swimming lessons continue to be an exciting adventure each day with continued improvement. Her breast stroke is perfect except for the breathing.

Saturday June 24th: Last night - its been a long haul but overall worth it. The journey is just beginning. I am pleased with the outcome so far and feel that LA, her Dad and I have a lot to look forward to in the future. The best is yet to come and God is good.

3/07 Update - LA continued to improve, in subtle but definite ways, over her first 6 months post-MME. She returned in 3/07 and is currently completing a second 300 hour course of MME treatmetn - and she continues to improve - it's obvious to me and it's obvious to her family and most importantly, it's obvious to LA.

At LA's prior office visits, I spoke with LA's Mom - now I speak with LA - she tells me how she is doing. LS's speech continues to improve, as does her gait and balance. The braces are gone, and she can now walk in high heels. She can now climb up on the kitchen counter to reach things high up in the cupboard. Fine motor control is improving. LA can now wet her lips making a circular motion with her tongue; she can now remove the metal twist on a bread wrapper. LA's temperament has also improved. Pre-MME, frustration would get to her, and try as she might, her emotions would flare. LA now has control over her emotions. She may still feel frustration, but now it doesn't get to her. I guess that this is what happens when you know that you are getting better.

We will give LA another 6 month rest period, and then reevaluate her status. It is likely that repetitive sessions of MME will improve her neurological status further. In 12 years, after she finishes college, medical school, and her residency, my plan is to teach her how to do coronary angiograms.

AMRI of NW Ohio provides MME treatment under the guidelines of an Investigational Review Board, consistent with FDA regulations.

Please note that MME treatment is considered to be experimental by the FDA. Although many patients have improved, no guarantee of success is implied.