Emily McDonald’s Story
Ten years ago, Founder and CEO of The Spero Clinic, Dr. Katinka van der Merwe, treated her first patient suffering from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Since then, she has created a world-renowned treatment protocol, capturing the attention of the media and doctors from across the globe.
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a form of chronic pain that usually affects the limbs. CRPS typically develops after an injury, surgery, stroke, or heart attack. The pain is out of proportion to the severity of the initial injury. The main symptoms, apart from severe pain, are swelling, loss of range of motion, temperature changes, and changes in the skin.
That was the case with Emily McDonald, a lively, happy teen who, after a routine appendix operation in March 2021, got trapped with CRPS symptoms so severe, her life seemed to have ended. Unable to walk, wheelchair-bound and in constant pain, Emily and her parents had given up all hope of recovery.
That is, until she entered the doors of The Spero Clinic, renowned for its groundbreaking therapies for neurologic dysfunction disorders, such as CRPS, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID and others.
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