Matei Diana has been diagnosed with Obstetrical Brachial Plexus Injury (last updated on September 10, 2004)

1) Download .AVI video file nr. 1 showing how Diana manages to lift her injured arm (at 3 months and 1 week old)

4) Images with Diana's right arm(at 3 and 4 months old) new

(Important! You will not be able to view the .AVI files unless you'll install the DivX 5.1.1 codec on your computer. You can find a free version at the address below)

http://www.divx.com/divx/download/

- Many thanks to dr. Rahul Nath, dr. Rita Lee, dr. Lisa Davis from Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, USA for showing us the right direction to go. We as parents were confused about how to start helping our daughter.

- Many thanks to Dr. Prof. Alain Gilbert from Clinique Jouvenet in Paris. You've given us hope at the time when we needed it the most.

- Many thanks to dr. Prof. Von Voss from KinderZentrum, Munchen, Germany for explaining us early what medical investigations to do in order to discover where the weak points may hide in Diana's arm.

- Many thanks to dr. Ene Valeria from the "Spitalul de Neuropsihiatrie Gheorghe Preda",Sibiu, Romania for helping us effectively while Diana has been under her supervision. Nothing could have been possible without the help of the Vojta therapists Prof.Otoiu and Prof. Olariu. Their every day hard work practicing Vojta physiotherapy has proved effective to strengthen my daughter's arm reflexes.

Diana is 3 months and 1 week old now and has been

injured at birth, diagnosed with Obstetrical Brachial

Plexus Injury.

We are looking forward to find the best doctors able

to help Diana gaining the ability to use her right arm

to the best possible degree.

At 3 months and 1 week Diana has begun to move the

affected arm in a new and encouraging way. Diana succeeds

to rotate and slightly bend her arm toward her body.

Until a week ago all she could do was to move the arm,

along her body while keeping it straight. She still has a

weak biceps, but we feel that the Vojta physical therapy

and the Tonotil energetic syrup finally began to show

positive results.

Thank you Lord. Of course I have the same feeling of

thankfulness and appreciation for the people

mentioned. To the many other people that I haven't

mentioned explicitly, but who have encouraged me and

have given me competent advice, I truly owe apologies.

We intend to use this web site as a link between
us (the parents) and the doctors that can help Diana.

Diana has alreay been following Vojta physical therapy for

70 days at the neuro-pediatric hospital and the physical

condition of her arm has improved..

I mean Diana can move her right arm by her side(laterally)

and the wrist and fingers are in an reasonably functional

condition. This means she can also hold firmly with her right

hand.

We as parents are focused on Diana's future ability to bend

her elbow completely by using her biceps in a natural way.

Illustration of a mother and baby; Size=240 pixels wide

Vital Statistics

Date of birth: May 10, 2004
Place: Sibiu, Romania, Europe
Weight: 5.550 Kg
Length: 61 cm

The information presented has the only purpose to help improve the physical condition of our daughter's right arm. Please don't change the inherent purpose of the information and please don't misunderstand our intentions as parents.

You can send e-mail to:

mateia@easynet.ro