Thursday, October 4, 2007

Dr. William Hammesfahr to Present at the 4th International Symposium on Brain Injury and Cerebral Palsy, the largest meeting of specialists in pediatric brain injuries ever held

Dr. William Hammesfahr to Present at the 4th International Symposium on Brain Injury and Cerebral Palsy, the largest meeting of specialists in pediatric brain injuries ever held

Nobel Prize nominated Dr. W. Hammesfahr will be discussing the latest in using medications to help restore patients even years after brain injuries, strokes, and cerebral palsy. Specialists from around the world will be converging to discuss new approaches

(PRWEB) July 29, 2004

Dr. W. Hammesfahr, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, will be discussing the breakthrough he pioneered. Dr. Hammesfahr discovered that certain FDA approved medications may help increase blood flow to damaged areas of the brain after stroke and other injuries. Thus injuries that were thought to be permanent, even years after a patient had stopped improving, could now be treated successfully, and most patients would improve. Essentially, this means that most patients with permanent injuries from a stroke can get better, even years after their stroke. Most patients with permanent brain injuries, even years after their injury, can get better.

An internal Medicare review identified that this therapy helped patients gain significant improvement even years after the injury and years after they had stopped improving before obtaining Dr. HammesfahrÂ’s approach.

Judicial Review in November of 2003 ordered Medicare payment for Dr. Hammesfahr’s approach in conditions of the brain that involved damage, injury, or abnormal function of blood vessels. The judge noted that judicial review of the method, science, and results showed significant improvement. Further, he identified that there was no “viable alternative” to obtain improvement in these patients with longstanding as well as acute injuries to the brain and blood vessels than Dr. Hammesfahr’s approach.

Further work showed that it was also applicable to other diseases of the brain where insufficient blood flow to the brain is a part of the problem, diseases like Attention Deficit Disorder, Migraine, Dementia, Autism, AspergerÂ’s, and Cerebral Palsy.

In clinical reviews, 98% of patients had major, functional improvement. These reviews were evaluated by Judge Susan Kurkland, for the State of Florida, Department of Health. She described in her ruling that this new therapy is safe, unique, and that Dr. Hammesfahr is the “first physician to restore deficits caused by stroke.”

Dr. Hammesfahr will be speaking at the 4th International Symposium, the largest meeting or brain specialists for pediatric brain injuries ever.

Speakers from around the world including Mexico, Russia, China, Europe, and elsewhere will be meeting to discuss new approaches including Stem Cell work, and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

4th International Symposium on Cerebral Palsy and the Brain Injured Child

July 28-31, 2004

The Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

These Medicare and State of Florida reviews are posted at his web site at hni-online. com

For further information concerning the conference, contact OceanHBO. com

For further information concerning Dr. HammesfahrÂ’s work and approach, contact hni-online. com

727-461-4464

Clearwater, Florida

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