Posted on 03/29/2018 7:47:08 PM PDT by 353FMG
The Institute of Neurological Recovery (INR), located in Boca Raton,FL, claims that they have developed a patented treatment that can reverse stroke symptoms. Their claim is accompanied by many YouTube videos that show the almost miraculous recovery by stroke victims, Alzheimer patients and Sciatica sufferers. The procedure is not covered by Medicare or any other health insurance agency that I know of.
if it were true- every stroke victim would be given the treatment- and noone would suffer the consequences of a stroke- stroke damage would be a thing of the past
I agree with you and I don’t see the NIH letting themselves get entangled with a huckster.
My wife had a stroke two years ago and suffers from left-side neglect as a result. Her quality of life and being confined to a chair has suffered and sometimes I myself feel helpless and somehow at fault for not fixing this for her. Taking a toll on me as well as I am her primary caregiver and still holding a full time job, I can’t retire for two more years and all our family is 1200 miles away.
I will differently be keeping tabs on this.
I don’t know if it is too good to be true — the INR claims that it is a patented “breakthrough” in stroke treatment. A breakthrough indicates a sudden and unexpected discovery.
Their Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/InstituteOfNeurologicalRecovery/
NOT TRUE! You haven't been around the drug and health care racket long enough. There are many cures and treatments out there that remain labeled quackery even with hundreds and thousands of cured patients. Hemp oil is one of them. Chelation therapy, DMSO, ultrasound for pain, Esiac tea, wild lettuce for pain, and many more. One that has intrigued me is the Esiac tea cure for cancer. Go to Youtube and watch the history of it. There is also many stories of hemp oil curing cancer and MS, along with about a half dozen other maladies. People have been getting Chelation treatments for decades since the 1940's. I've had a doctor give me an ultrasound treatment for pain in my arm and was immediately healed. Goggled it and it was found under quackery. No drug would help my bursitis and the treatment worked completely in 5 minutes. The truth is the drug companies don't want a cure unless they have it and can charge you mucho denero.
An old doctor of mine used to give kutapressin for shingles and other diseases. At the time it was a leftover for making B vitamins from pig livers. Now it's been patented as Nexavir. They won't mess with something that costs $10. It has to be $300 a bottle to even get a look. Watch the history of Esiac tea and see what they did to the woman that used it to cure thousands of womens breast cancer. If chelation works on heart disease, hundreds of billions will be lost for something that is cheap and safer than aspirin.
We generate new cells every day.
I’ve had several mini-stokes due to an artificial heart valve. I keep the Warfarin level at or just above what the heart doctor recommended.
The most frightening one was around 1993 when I felt strange, then could not talk but babble, and could not stand up. Thankfully it passed. I later looked at my wife who saw me have it and said...”It’s a good thing I did not wet my pants.”
She looked at me and said...”You did.”
Strokes or mini-strokes ar3e no laughing matter.
And that would be a God-sent blessing. Right? And is that not how medical science has progressed in the history of mankind?
Not all progress has been made inside a controlled lab. Don’t we all wish that strokes can be conquered as we would like to see cancer disappear from this world? Sometimes our scientists and physicians were just plain lucky in making some earth-shaking discoveries.
Looks like this "Institue" is nest of scamsters.
Check out the Ripoff Report website for a lengthy commentary on one poor soul's experience.
More victims are found on Yelp--a place where people can report these kinds of operations that target people in desperate health conditions.
Here's a couple of examples:
Yelp recently removed my old review about my experience dealing with this group because I was writing on behalf of 2 people who were stroke survivors (and couldn't type themselves). Nevertheless, I personally experienced the bad reputation of this place through their fake "free consultations". Don't believe it. They should just advertise upfront, it will be several hundred to see a doc for evaluation. The shot itself is an off-label use of etanercept (Enbrel) . See above complaint about the reprimand these guys agreed to under their bad business (medical) practices.
And this one:
Dad suffered a stroke leaving the left side of his body paralyzed and with double vision. He had an injection "procedure" done a week ago. Nothing...and I mean no effect. I knew it was a scam but after repeated attempts I didn't have the heart to keep trying to convince my dad that the injection wouldn't work. He had his hopes hung on this procedure. I did my research prior and everything I read explained why wouldn't work but they had my pops hooked. $700 for an "evaluation" that a school nurse could've performed and $6800 for a fake treatment...and from people who are not neurologists. Shameful.
Plenty more horror stories at the Yelp link below.
.Run--do not walk--from this Venus flytrap.
Looks like this "Institue" is nest of scamsters.
Check out the Ripoff Report website for a lengthy commentary on one poor soul's experience.
More victims are found on Yelp--a place where people can report these kinds of operations that target people in desperate health conditions.
Here's a couple of examples:
Yelp recently removed my old review about my experience dealing with this group because I was writing on behalf of 2 people who were stroke survivors (and couldn't type themselves). Nevertheless, I personally experienced the bad reputation of this place through their fake "free consultations". Don't believe it. They should just advertise upfront, it will be several hundred to see a doc for evaluation. The shot itself is an off-label use of etanercept (Enbrel) . See above complaint about the reprimand these guys agreed to under their bad business (medical) practices.
And this one:
Dad suffered a stroke leaving the left side of his body paralyzed and with double vision. He had an injection "procedure" done a week ago. Nothing...and I mean no effect. I knew it was a scam but after repeated attempts I didn't have the heart to keep trying to convince my dad that the injection wouldn't work. He had his hopes hung on this procedure. I did my research prior and everything I read explained why wouldn't work but they had my pops hooked. $700 for an "evaluation" that a school nurse could've performed and $6800 for a fake treatment...and from people who are not neurologists. Shameful.
Plenty more horror stories at the Yelp link below.
.Run--do not walk--from this Venus flytrap.
Are you sure it’s your wife? (You know I’m
just being sarcastic, right?)
Anyone can hire an actress to pretend to be a stroke patient and then show a miraculous recovery. In the video, too little time elapsed between the injection and the “miraculous recovery” for this to be anything other than a scam. Furthermore, there is utterly no discussion of what the injection is, its mechanism of action, or any details of the research that developed it. Scammers usually don’t describe any research, because they don’t have any. But they are very good with sciency sounding gobbledygook.
According to a friend who still suffers from faulty back surgery, he went there for a treatment which cost $150...........
I'm not sure I'd be willing to spend $6000 on treatments based on their claims only.......
Medical science progresses incredibly slowly, because the human body is orders of magnitude more complex than any machine ever built. This fact is a boon for hucksters who can pocket tons of cash by promising miracles and selling snake oil.
Any time you see someone promising miracles, just ask where is the empirical evidence to back them up? Where are the multi-arm clinical studies with hundreds or thousands of patients? Where are the animal studies that have to precede the human studies? Where are the preclinical studies that show that the treatment in question can hypothetically treat the condition?
Anecdotal stories are not evidence.
In the real world of medical research, we are plodding along, plodding, plodding, devising ever more sophisticated tools to try to understand the human body, and then using that knowledge to design and test many thousands of compounds, only to have maybe one or two that show any promise at all. And then the likelihood that those one or two candidates will survive the many years of rigorous testing and make it to FDA approval is slim. This is why it costs hundreds of millions, up into billions, of dollars to develop drugs, and is largely why they are so expensive.
This institute is about a 1/2 mile from my home I walk past it everyday on my walk. Who Knew!
Just another S.Florida scam...looking for grant money.
Later
bkmk
I have been practicing medicine for 44 years, and have been involved in many exciting and dramatic advances, as well as innumerable frauds preying on the sick and disabled.
A good guide to follow: If it’s published on YouTube, it’s a fraud.
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