Cuban Neurological Restoration Program Praised at Congress Cuba, March 11, 2009. Doctor Jose A. Obeso, internationally- renowned researcher into Parkinson´s and Alzheimer diseases, today praised the Cuban Neurological Restoration Program, the only one of its kind in the world, during a session at the 3rd International Conference on Neurological Restoration underway in this capital. In statements to ACN news agency, Obeso, who works as neurology professor at Navarra University’s Medicine Faculty and University Clinic in Spain, explained the advantages of the Cuban program, developed by the International Center of Neurological Restoration (CIREN in its Spanish initials), which has benefited almost 40,000 patients from some 80 nations. A highly-skilled multidisciplinary team led by a neurologist combines therapeutic, pharmacological, surgical and neuro-rehabilitation methods in order to compensate for the diseases´ effects and to stimulate functional recovery of nerve activity. Following a series of medical and laboratory investigations, a customized program is designed in order to achieve results from intensive 28-day cycles of multifactor neuro-rehabilitation. Among the conditions treated are hemiplegia and paraplegia, epilepsy, infantile cerebral paralysis, dementia, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Polyneuropathies, and tumors of the nervous system nervous. CIREN offers a personalized and intensive therapeutic treatment, in addition to a multidisciplinary analysis of each individual’s problems, said Doctor Obeso. He stressed the advantages of this program, describing it as “well run and controlled, which makes many people from all over the world come to this facility for treatment, which in twenty years has treated more than 40,000 people from 85 countries.” The renowned specialist attended a symposium on the surgical treatment of Parkinson´s disease, in which experts from various countries discussed how to stop the progression of damage caused by the neurodegenerative process: the biggest challenge to the neuroscientist. He highlighted Cuba’s achievements as a pioneer in the area of Parkinson surgery, obtaining encouraging results from minimally invasive procedures involving the subthalamus, which have benefited over 600 people. (Cubaminrex- ACN) |