{"id":105847,"date":"2018-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.institutchiaribcn.com\/comunicacion\/be-informed-to-avoid-the-suffering\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:21:52","slug":"informed-avoid-suffering","status":"publish","type":"comunicacion","link":"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/en\/informed-avoid-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Be informed to avoid the suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-muted aniview centerTXT\">Published by\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by ICSEB\" href=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/en\/author\/chiari\/\" rel=\"author\">ICSEB<\/a>\u00a0at 27 November, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>L\u2019avenir,<\/div>\n<div>22\/11\/2018<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On November 22nd, 2018, the Belgian newspaper L\u2019Avenir interviewed Lilou and Bastien Van Dyck\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, she explains how the lives of her two children, affected by Arnold Chiari I and Syringomyelia (the girl had already been operated on by craniotomy), have improved completely after they got operated on with an innovative technique in Barcelona. The girl is able to even walk again<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, she comments, \u201cToday we feel impotent against the current medical system, a compartmentalized system, which only takes into account the images of the patient and not the individual as a whole. It doesn\u2019t take into account the patient\u2019s clinical symptoms and often uses invasive techniques to treat the pathologies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenir.net\/cnt\/dmf20181121_01260135\/bois-de-villers-lilou-et-bastien-atteints-d-une-maladie-rare-operes-a-barcelone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive size-full wp-image-7849\" src=\"https:\/\/institutchiaribcn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/L_avenir-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenir.net\/cnt\/dmf20181121_01260135\/bois-de-villers-lilou-et-bastien-atteints-d-une-maladie-rare-operes-a-barcelone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.lavenir.net\/cnt\/dmf20181121_01260135\/bois-de-villers-lilou-et-bastien-atteints-d-une-maladie-rare-operes-a-barcelone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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