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Published on: 2/29/2008
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Dr. Daniel Lammertse is the medical director at Craig Hospital in Englewood.It is a national leader in spinal cord injury research and rehabilitation.Lammertse says he receives scores of inquiries each year from people who want his advice before they undergo treatments like the one offered by Shroff.
"I can understand the motivation to try and seek treatment to improve their health and their function.That does not mean that I support the treatments that they're seeking because quite frankly, most of those have no scientific validation and in fact, can be potentially harmful," said Lammertse.
Lammertse has a term for the kind of trip McLean is about to take: medical tourism.He says there are two constants he sees from patients after their trips.
"The majority of those patients will return and report to us that they've had some vague improvement in bodily functions, whether that be an improvement in balance or body awareness.I have yet to see any of those patients demonstrate objective positive change in their function that we can measure objectively, and I have seen more than one of them suffer," said Lammertse.