Oleg Li. Cord Traction Syndrome. Idiopathic Syringomyelia, Descent of the cerebellar tonsils and idiopathic Scoliosis. Polydiscopathy.
Surgery date: December 2013 Hello! Happy New Year! My name is Oleg, I am 36 years old, I live with my family in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and I would like to express my immense gratitude towards the Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona team for their work, especially Doctor Royo and Nina! I […]
Paola Sacchiero. Cord Traction Syndrome. Descent of the cerebellar tonsils. Idiopathic syringomyelia
Surgery date: october 2013 My name is Paola Sacchiero and I am 52 years old. When I was 6 years old I began to suffer from severe headaches accompanied by vomiting. I was diagnosed with migraine. In 2005, I suffered from sciatica. I could not walk due to the intense pain and I underwent […]
Angelo Di Salvo. Idiopathic Scoliosis. Cord Traction Syndrome. Descent of the cerebellar tonsils (DCT).
Surgery date: September 2012 Hello, my name is Angelo Di Salvo, I am 16 years old and live in Catania. More or less one and a half years ago, following different clinical tests and a sudden increase of my scoliosis, I was diagnosed with Arnold Chiari I. Since I was little I always suffered […]
Violetta. Idiopathic Syringomyelia, Cord Traction Syndrome. Arnold Chiari I Syndrome and Idiopathic Scoliosis.
Surgery date: October 2011 Good day. At the age of six years our daughter started having health problems: some trouble with the left foot, she wasn’t able to walk on it entirely, the heel would always be “hanging” in the air, then the scoliosis appeared, one shoulder was higher than the other, she wasn’t […]
Celestina Marques Gonçalves. Cord Traction Syndrome. Arnold Chiari I Syndrome. Idiopathic Scoliosis. Polydiscopathia.
Surgery date: July 2011 My name is Celestina Marques Gonçalves. I live in Brasil-Porto Alegre/RS. Today I am a very happy person, full of hunger for life. I had been suffering during many years from strong head and neck aches, with migraines as a diagnosis, and also problems in my cervical spine had started […]
Anna. Arnold Chiari I Syndrome. Cord Traction Syndrome.
Surgery date: January 2012 My name is Anna, I live in Moscow (Russia). I am 48 years old. I want to try to briefly tell my story. The first symptoms appeared when I was studying at school, without an apparent cause I started getting headaches and vertigos. After a few check ups at different […]
Maria Cristina Zucchetti: Cord Traction Syndrome, already operated Arnold-Chiari I Syndrome, Idiopathic Syringomyelia, Idiopathic Scoliosis
Angela Grieco. Arnold Chair I syndrome, Syringomyelia C7-T1 and idiopathic Scoliosis. Traction myelopathy
Surgery date: March 2008 My name is Angela Grieco and I live in Italy, in the province of Matera. I would like to tell you about how I discovered that I had Arnold Chiari I and Syringomyelia. Since adolescence I started to have strong neuralgias in the face, neck and eyes. Over the years […]
Vivien Chen. Arnold Chiari I, Cord Traction Syndrome. Descent of the cerebellar tonsils.
Surgery date: May 2012 Hello. I underwent the sectioning of the Filum Terminale surgery in Spain on 22 of May 2012, with a diagnosis of Arnold Chiari, without Syringomyelia. It all started put with a sudden headache on December 2011, a doctor from Shanghai diagnosed a CSF leak caused by to a rupture in […]
Paolo Buscemi. Idiopathic Syringomyelia. Cord Traction Syndrome. Mild thoracic scoliosis.
Date of surgery: July 2011 My name is Paolo Buscemi, I am 27 years old and I’m Sicilian. I am writing to tell my story about how I discovered my disease and Dr. Royo’s surgery. It all started in 2011. I started feeling strange sensations towards January: stiff hands, loss of strength and grip (often […]