Nicole is Learning to Walk Again After Surgery – Thanks to You!

Nicole is 4 years old, and her parents believe that she is the most smiling child on earth. Severe congenital diagnoses still seriously limit her movements, but do not prevent the baby from exploring the world. She learned to speak early and loves when her mother reads poems about animals to her. “If she likes a poem, she can learn it in a couple of readings. Speech becomes better and clearer every year,” the mother shares her daughter’s success. Nicole has been struggling with the disease since birth; her medical record contains many diagnoses - cerebral palsy, spasticity, structural abnormalities of the hip joints and feet, subluxations of the femoral head. The parents have been rehabilitating the girl since she was 7 months old, but until this winter the progress was very modest. But Nicole never learned to walk on her own, and recently negative dynamics began. The parents tried all the methods of treating their daughter in Russia and decided to take Nicole for orthopedic surgery in Greece (in Russia, such an intervention can only be performed at the age of 7-10 years). The baby's mom and dad paid for the operation themselves; it will help the girl avoid similar interventions in the future. After the operation, Nicole is required to undergo long-term rehabilitation here in Russia. This is a bobat therapy course that will help the girl recover and teach her new movements. It will let you feel your body and help you use muscles that were in severe spasticity before the operation. The girl’s parents do not have the financial ability to pay for rehabilitation on their own after expensive treatment in Greece. We really need your help, dear Tubers!