Titanium rods helped paralyzed girl stand

This girl broke his back after falling from a tree and had to spend my life in a wheelchair. However, titanium implants have allowed it to get back on their feet.

Spine fracture

Because of the accident, what happened in the scout camp, 12-year-old Englishwoman Chloe Hooper fell from a tree and get harder spine fracture . One part of the vertebra just broke down, and the second also squeezed spine. Unless girl tried to get to his feet immediately after the fall, all it would spin It was completely destroyed.

Spine fracture

At first, doctors thought that Chloe will remain paralyzed for life. But then, surgeons have performed the unique operation lasting only 90 minutes, during which the broken spine girls joined and strengthened titanium rods. Such the procedure is often performed in patients with scoliosis - a curvature strong spine. So, in 2002, surgeons put titanium implants British Princess Eugenia, suffers from scoliosis. Operations then lasted as much as 8 hours.

As is the case with the princess, installation of titanium rods in the spine girls spend in Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. But after 6 weeks risen to his feet after the hardest injury to a child presented Eugenia at a charity dinner. The success of this operation gives hope to hundreds of thousands of people paralyzed after vertebral fractures .

Note that the best chance to succeed in those patients who are in operational within a few hours after the injury, when the connection between different parts of the brain has not yet finally broken. (READ MORE)

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