Henreich Cheng's surgical procedures in Taiwan

[Wise Young]

According to media reports and also people who have visited his clinic, Dr. Henreich Cheng has been using peripheral nerves to bridge the spinal cords of people with chronic spinal cord injury, combined with growth factor therapies. Although he has not yet published the results of his trial, he is offering some of the procedures that he has been carrying out to people. According to postings from Bruno on the Cando Forums, Dr. Cheng offers the bridging procedure combined with a growth factor cocktail, or the growth factor cocktail (unspecified) delivered intrathecally to the spinal cord.

There is great public interest in spinal cord injury in Taiwan. Fueled by sympathy for First Lady of Taiwan Wu Shu Chen who has spinal cord injury, there is strong support from the government for a cure of spinal cord injury:
http://www.taiwan.com.au/Soccul/Services/Disabled/2000/0608.html
http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/1999/09/06/story/0000002007

There is also strong interest in rehabilitation of spinal cord injury
http://www.ncku.edu.tw/~publish/chinese/enb97/med/e97mreha.html
http://www.rehabinternationalpub.com/issues/fall2000/12.asp
http://www.tmc.edu.tw/campus/depart/publichealth/html/ccenter2.htm

In 1996, Dr. Cheng published a widely recognized paper (see http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/rpaine/SpinalCord/ScienceAbstracts.html ) showing functional regeneration in rat spinal cords bridged with periphal nerve.

[This message was edited by Wise Young on August 06, 2001 at 01:43 PM.]

[Carl R]

http://www.vghtpe.gov.tw/~nc/nrl/index_e.htm

[Birde]

EMAIL: hc_cheng@vghtpe.gov.tw WORK PHONE: 886-2-28712121 ext. 3257 ADDRESS: 201, Section 2 Shih-pai Road
Taipei, Taiwan 112 Republic of China FAX: 886-2-2875-7588

[Wise Young]

There are several detailed accounts by members of our forum who have gone to Taiwan to be treated by Dr. Henreich Cheng:

Vgrafen's description of his experience in Taiwan (http://carecure.org/forum/showpost.php?p=69255)

mkowalski's description of his experience in Taiwan (http://carecure.org/forum/showpost.php?p=69255)

[mk99]

Dr. Young, one of the link's you posted (mkowalski's description of his Taiwan experience) is not corrected. It points to the "dialogue" that was going on between Vgrafen & Chris. thanks

[Wise Young]

Whoops, I am sorry... it is indeed as you describe.

One other member of our forum had Dr. Cheng's injection... Bruno, as he indicated in the following topic in the Cure Forum (http://carecure.org/forum/showpost.php?p=68272). He had intrathecal injection of growth factors by Dr. Cheng in Taiwan in June 2001. He had mentioned this on the Cando forum before it went down. In this same thread, Bruno also described an experimental procedure (where he apparently had his arachnoid removed?) that he had in Lisbon, at the Egas Moniz Hospital.

Wise.

[This message was edited by Wise Young on January 21, 2002 at 02:14 PM.]

[Wise Young]

Here are some links in the Cure Forum

cure: repair spinal cord (http://carecure.org/forum/showpost.php?p=96309) Chiwei: Cure: Henrick Cheng procedure nerve growth cocktail (http://carecure.org/forum/showpost.php?p=234319)

[rvr]

Cheng Update:
Dear Mr. Rossito,

Thank you for your email. Presently this laboratory is performing first stage clinical trials, and the 43 patients in this group have already been selected. We hope to commence second stage trials sometime in 2005, and at that time we may add overseas patients. You may contact us again at that time and send in your medical record and a recent MRI in order to determine if you would make a good candidate for the trial.

Best Regards,

Henrich Cheng

rvr

[lizette]

hi dr cheng:
I still waiting for your help! I know your goberment controled all but they have to know you are the only men in the world can help my husband please reconsidered my petition and help us!thankyou lizette http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif if someone can help me please write my email: nnieme@hotmail.com I need help

lizette

[Wise Young]

See discussion in topic entitled Dr. Heinrich Chang v. Dr. John Martin (http://carecure.org/forum/showthread.php?t=19190)