Carmen, Cord Traction Syndrome, Arnold Chiari I. Syringomyelia, Idiopathic Scoliosis
Surgery date: January 2011 My story is long and painful however I will share small details with you as my personal testimony. Apparently, I was born healthy and strong but at 8 years I began to have rare sensations as if I had received a strong hit in the chest, dizziness, sciatica, neck stiffness, […]
Joaquina Herrezuelo. Idiopathic Syringomyelia. Cord Traction Syndrome. Multiple discopathy, especially C6-C7 and D9-D10.

Surgery date: June 2012 Hello, my name is Joaquina, I´m 54 years old and I am from Valladolid. My problems started in 2008, when I broke my shoulder in a work accident. At the insurance they already found the syringomyelia through a resonance, but they didn´t give any importance to it. From when I […]
Alina Kvartalnaya. Arnold Chiari I syndrome. Idiopathic syringomyelia and scoliosis. Cord traction syndrome.

Surgery date: June 2012-07-09 My name is Kvartalnaya Alina, I am 51 years old. I was diagnosed in 2007 with Arnold Chiari I syndrome and syringomyelia. I had surgery in Novosibirsk, after the surgery I was doing more or less fine for two years, but in 2009 my toes started to go numb and […]
Valente Family

Giulio Valente. Cord Traction Syndrome. Descent of the cerebellar tonsils. Hello, my name is Giulio Valente, I’m 25 years old and in February 2012 Dr. Royo performed surgery on me in Barcelona because of Arnold Chiari I. I only found out in November 2011 that I had Chiari, because I did a check up MRI […]
Dina Lopes-Basten. Arnold Chiari Malformation, Cord Traction Syndrome. Descent of the cerebellar tonsils

Date of surgery: February 2012 My name is Dina Lopes-Basten, I am 49 years old, I am originally from Portugal and live in Berlin since 1988. I was diagnosed with an Arnold Chiari malformation in October 2011 after many tests in vain in the previous years. I had been suffering from the symptoms, […]
Carmen Reyes Barranco. Right cervicobrachialgia secondary to right cervical C5-C6 disc herniation

Surgery date: March 2012 Hello to everyone. My name is Carmen Reyes, I am 32 years old and I live in Cartagena, Murcia. I have to tell you that I have undergone surgery for a Herniated Disc in the C5-C6 vertebrae with irradiation to the arm (right Cervicobrachialgia) and I have the need to […]
Monia Martin. Arnold Chiari I, Idiopathic syringomyelia. Cord Traction Syndrome. Descent of the cerebellar tonsils.

Surgery date: January 2012 My name is Monia, I am 38 years old and live in Italy. My experience starts with the report of a MRI of the entire spine, due to an annoying backache that would not leave me alone and that I would define as “strange”, since the pain wasn’t confined to […]
Marialuisa Tripodi. Cord Traction Syndrome, Arnold Chiari I Syndrome; Syringomyelia and Idiopathic Scoliosis.

Date of surgery: November 2011 My name is Marialuisa Tripodi. I am 47 years old. In 2005 I found out that I was suffering from Syringomyelia from Arnold Chiari Syndrome but my problems originated long before…. And after my second pregnancy, in 1993, I began to suffer rare disorders: frequent sores in the oral cavity, […]
Asín Family
Sònia Asín. Medullary Traction Syndrome. Idiopathic scoliosis. Surgery date: October 2000 My name is Sònia Asín and I am Dr. Royo´s patient, more specifically his 12th case. My life had always been tied to scoliosis since I was diagnosed when I was nine years old. The diagnosis was made because I was always complaining […]
Letter to Dr. Royo from Giovanni Lanzoni, husband of a patient.
Querido amigo te escribo… Dear friend, I write to you… Dear Dr. Miguel Royo Salvador: I would like to allow myself to call you simply Miguel. I am writing this short letter to you to express my gratitude and recognition, being one of the few lucky people in the world who have been able […]