There is new hope for the seven hundred thousand people who are crippled by a stroke every year.
"Peeling the Onion: Reversing the Ravages of Stroke" follows a father/daughter journey through the description of a revolutionary new treatment for stroke. The book is a combination of a poignant narrative about the author’s father’s recovery while undergoing therapy and observations from neurologist William M. Hammesfahr, M.D.
Recovery has occurred in ninety-four percent of the thousands of patients he has treated. No patient has gotten worse, an astounding record for any physician. Dr. Hammesfahr was nominated for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his "pioneering work in the area of closed head injury and stroke."
This enormous breakthrough in medicine uses common FDA approved medicines. It is simple to understand and non-invasive.
The author kept a meticulous daily journal while her father, Dr. Edward W. Robinson (Woody) was treated by the Hammesfahr Neurological Institute. Woody suffered a devastating stroke eight years previously and was in constant pain. He wanted to die.
In the first three weeks of treatment her father lost the excruciating pain that made him cry himself to sleep at night. His wit and personality returned as did his peripheral vision and sense of taste and smell. He also began singing, loudly, again. His arm relaxed and he could bend his knee. He wanted to live.
Her father’s experience was not an isolated case. At the Hammesfahr Neurological Institute people enter in wheelchairs and leave on foot. They enter mute and leave talking.
Families, caregivers and stroke patients will find this book important as it can change the course of ruined lives. There is hope where there was once resignation.
