"Shunts release cerebral fluid that builds between the skull and brain...the pressure from this build up can especially impact motion. It needs to be released, immediate improvement can be radical!"
Wow!! I hear the anti-lifers mantra about how Terri has no chance to improve because of the quantity of fluid in her brain, and it looks like it's reasonably easy to fix this problem.
Would you happen to have a link when Dr. Hammerfahr made statements about the shunt?
I might have caught it at theEmpireJournal.com, as well.
My father-in-law has had a shunt performed last year, was falling all the time before, is 90 years old, and a few months ago, we packed his walker up and banished it to the garage.
You have probably seen people with shunts but do not know what you are seeing. That was my experience.
The shunt drains from that space, shunt itself is really a long thin tube with a flow regulator that needs to be checked every three months for awhile, then less, finally every six months.
It appears like a big old vein from top side of head going down behind the ear, with just the flesh covering it, it is threaded into the body so you don's see the large looking vein, and it disappears, down into the cavity of the chest, where the fluid is harmlessly absorbed.
this procedure is done regularly with hydrocephalic (sp) folks, to relieve the pressure the excess fluid puts upon the brain.