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Tyler’s Hope Comprehensive Care Center Website Launch

Jennifer Reichwage — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:12:48 +0000

Together with Tyler’s Hope for a Dystonia Cure, the UFMDC invites you to view our new dystonia website dedicated to our Comprehensive Dystonia Care Center. Our team includes specialized physicians, a physician assistant, nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists, psychologists, researchers as well as other interdisciplinary specialists.

The new pages detail what is available at our Dystonia Center including information on becoming a patient, treatment options and details about our Dystonia team.

Check out the site here…

Dystonia and DBS article from Palm Beach Post

jacobsoc — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:16:47 +0000

This is an older article from the Palm Beach Post in 2007 about one of our patients.

One mother’s walking miracle – By Rachel Sauer – Sunday, May 13, 2007

Excerpt:

“Please,” Viviana remembers pleading. “Please. We can’t do this anymore.”

Sharma called Dr. Michael Okun, a neurologist at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville, medical director of the National Parkinson Foundation and valedictorian of the Palm Beach Lakes High School class of 1989.

He agreed to see Chris.

“In most cases, the dystonia presents as the turning of a foot, say, and progresses very slowly over many years,” Okun explains. “But for unexplainable reasons, we have patients like Christopher who progress very fast.”

Tyler’s Hope and UFMDC featured on CNN

jacobsoc — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:51:56 +0000