This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading \u2013 and a slap in the face for families like ours<\/p>\n
Amazing news from Netflix: there is an extraordinary treatment available for children with very severe neurological disabilities, one that, given the appropriate level of parental gumption, will grant kids written off as hopeless cases the ability to walk and talk. The medical establishment, populated as it is with hopeless dinosaurs, hasn\u2019t yet absorbed its full significance, and you won\u2019t find it on the NHS, or through mainstream providers in the United States or Europe. But quietly, almost magically, it is already changing lives.<\/p>\n
The device that provides this treatment, the Cytotron, is the subject of the Mexican movie Lucca\u2019s World, the No 1 non-English-language film on the world\u2019s biggest streaming platform last week. It follows one family \u2013 led by a remarkable mother, B\u00e1rbara Anderson, on whose memoir the movie is based \u2013 as they turn every stone in pursuit of a better life for their little boy. And as soon as Anderson learns about the Cytotron, there is very little room for doubt about its remarkable properties. By \u201cstimulating the damaged brain cells in order for them to become more active and create new connections\u201d, the device can apparently <\/strong>restore the functions that have been destroyed by Lucca\u2019s severe cerebral palsy. \u201cThe Cytotron will mark a before and after in the history of medicine,\u201d we learn. It\u2019s \u201cscientifically supported\u201d. Yes, it\u2019s eye-wateringly expensive \u2013 $50,000 for a single course of treatment in the movie <\/strong>\u2013 but that\u2019s because it\u2019s unprecedented.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading \u2013 and a slap in the face for families like ours Amazing news from Netflix: there is an extraordinary treatment available for children with very severe neurological disabilities, one that, given the appropriate level of parental gumption, will grant kids written off as hopeless … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}