02/24/2010
Dr.Fan recently is busy at treating patients with different of dystonia from States, China and India.
One of patients is from North Carolina (NC), who drove 7.5 hour and lives in a hotel near our office. Patient S.P., 72 years old, she has dystonia 13 years, initially one cervical dystonia (Spasmodic torticollis), 3.5 years ago,it improved, but becomes Spasmodic Dysphonia (abductor type). Her voice is strained, strangled, choked like, sound hoarse, breathless, anxious or groaning. Also, she has difficult in chowing, but no problem at swallowing.
She had Botox injection 2 years (each may help about 3 months in some extent). Currently under some medications. But still very hard to speak. Most of words could not be understanded. So, her sister has to help her as an interpreter.
She had 3 sessions acupuncture in our office (until today). Both her sister and she feel improved much, although still has spasmodic voice, basically her words are understandable. We took video again and showed her the difference between initial visit and today. She is very happy with the result.
She will continue two days treatments. And she plans to come back in near future(after one week).
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