Spraining your ankle may not sound like a big deal – it’s uncomfortable and painful, but recovery is usually quick and without complications. Yet, in some cases, a minor injury can spark off a condition that results in excruciating chronic pain and loss of mobility. This condition is called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, or CRPS.
For Ceciley Maxa, a lively 25-year-old from River Falls, Wisconsin, her sprained ankle developed into years of living a nightmare, until she couldn’t take it any longer. “The sensation can be described as being burned with a blowtorch on the skin,” she said.
After navigating hospitals, clinics, and doctors without remission, Ceciley eventually found The Spero Clinic in Arkansas, which specializes in holistic treatments for neurologic disorders, including CRPS.
The Scourge of CRPS
Among the many neurologic dysfunction disorders, CRPS is the most brutal. More than 200,000 people in the country suffer from this disorder, which, according to the medical community, cannot be cured. Patients are being sent home with pain medications, which may bring temporary relief but also create long-term dependencies and damaging effects.
CRPS is associated with imbalance and malfunction of the autonomic nervous system, resulting in disability, chronic pain, and functional loss. It can present itself in several stages, ranging from intense, burning pain to permanent changes in the skin and bones.
For Ceciley, this meant enduring bouts of nearly unbearable, panic-inducing pain. Unable to work and missing out on planning her 2018 wedding, she said, “I wasn’t able to live a normal life with my friends or family,” she says.
Healing the “Impossible”
Given its many alarming symptoms, CRPS is considered an “impossible” disorder. However, The Spero Clinic Founder and CEO, Dr. Katinka van der Merwe, does not agree. In her words, “I have made it my life’s mission to treat patients who suffer from so-called ‘impossible’ diseases – those that have been given up by the medical community.”
Spero’s focus is on isolating and repairing the global failure of the central nervous system, which is causing the extreme body phenomena linked to neurologic dysfunction disorders. Within that system, the Vagus nerve is a major player in solving the puzzle that forms CRPS.
Spero’s treatment protocol, therefore, consists of calming the Vagus nerve and central nervous system, and restoring these crucial systems to function optimally again.
New Hope and A New Future
For CRPS patient Ceciley, treatment with The Spero Clinic has given her something crucial: full remission and a pain-free life. “It has helped more than anything I have experienced.”
Says Dr. Katinka, “Our whole focus with everything we do in here is to remove anything that’s blocking the central nervous system from doing its job.” For the hundreds of other Spero patients suffering from CRPS, that focus has meant a new future – a new life.
For more information about the Spero Clinic, please call (479) 304-8202.
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