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[margaretayres]

Hello, Can anyone help in letting me know what type of fracture Jeannette sykes suffered. I live in Turkey and have a friend who has a C7 fracture.

He asked me to try to find out if the machine that helped jeannette could posibly help him.


But I dont seem to be able to find what type of fracture she had. Can anyone help please.

[Lucydog]

Daily Mail Article

[Apparelyzed]

Hi,

The type on injury that Jeanette had was the main deciding factor in her recovery.

Reading articles, it says she was a Tetraplegic, and due to her recovery, it looks as though her paralysis was mainly due to spinal bruising, and an incomplete injury.

The Lokomat which she used at Pinderfields is mainly used to maximise recovery in incomplete injuries, and she started using the Lokomat three months after her operation to stabalise her neck.

The principle of the Lokomat is to prevent Learned Non Use, by moving the legs, sending signals through the loco pattern generator areas of the spinal cord. By stimulating these areas, the theory is that the signals trying to get through the damaged lesion, help promote regeneration of the damaged spinal cord.

This is most effective in incomplete injuries, and low paraplegic injuries.

There is another article here which gives further information:

http://www.midyorks....es patients.htm

Here is the Lokomat manufacturers website as well:

http://www.hocoma.ch...rd_lokomat.html

Regards

Simon