After suffering with CRPS, Emily McDonald, stepped into healing after receiving treatment from The Spero Clinic in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
“Ever since I treated my very first patient suffering from CRPS,” says Spero Founder and CEO Dr. Katrinka van der Merwe. “I became obsessed with helping people who suffer from this horrible, life-robbing condition.”
Often dubbed the “suicide disease,” Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a form of intense, chronic pain that typically develops after an injury, surgery, a stroke or heart attack. The pain is off the charts, compared to the severity of the initial injury. Considered incurable by the medical community, the only traditional remedy is pain medication which only brings temporary relief.
That was the case with Emily McDonald, a lively, happy teen who, after a routine appendix operation in March 2021, developed CRPS symptoms so severe, she was unable to walk.
Wheelchair-bound and in constant pain, Emily and her parents had given up all hope of recovery, 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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