{"id":17,"date":"2009-09-13T16:52:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-11-01T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T16:54:08","slug":"another-patient-jean-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/2009\/09\/13\/another-patient-jean-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Patient – Jean David"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is seven-year old, Jean David from Haiti. Jean David has Arthrogryposis, a rare genetic disorder which is characterized by multiple joint contractures and can include muscle weakness, scoliosis and\/or growth retardation, among other things.<\/p>\n

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Before Jean David saw Dr. Nelson, his legs were severely contractured with\u00a0both hips in flexion, abduction and external rotation.\u00a0 His hips may have even been dislocated, which occurs frequently with this type of deformity.\u00a0 Additionally, his knees\u00a0were in flexion and he had\u00a0bilateral clubfoot deformities.\u00a0 Therefore, walking was clearly not an option for Jean David.<\/p>\n

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Jean David underwent four surgeries to correct the bony deformities and was then casted from hips to toes.\u00a0 Now, Jean David wears braces to keep the re-alignment going and in check.\u00a0 The braces have to be custom-made and are super-expensive.\u00a0 Since his family couldn\u2019t afford them, these braces were donated to Jean David.<\/p>\n

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We began weight-bearing activities at the end of August, and on September 1, Jean David took his first-ever steps in the parallel bars!\u00a0 Due to\u00a0Jean David\u2019s\u00a0amazing upper body strength and determination, Jean David we have already progressed him to walking with a walker.\u00a0 He is a\u00a0such a hard-worker!!<\/p>\n

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On Sept 4, Dr. Nelson and our Drector of Clinics, Robbie Jackson, donated the money to buy Jean David his own walker.\u00a0 They will be returning to Haiti this coming week, and Jean David will be able to walk at home now with assistance from his mom and with the walker.\u00a0 (Just an FYI: the walker we got him cost $100 US dollars and doesn\u2019t include wheels. I\u2019m thinking Jean David may really benefit from wheels,\u00a0but who knows how much wheels will cost! Anyone want to donate some walker wheels for a pediatric walker???)<\/p>\n

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Neither Jean David nor his mother speak English or Spanish.\u00a0 Luckily, Jackie\u2019s mom, who is also Hatian, speaks English, so when she is also at therapy, she provides translation assistance for us.\u00a0 But, if she\u2019s not there, we just use a lot of gestures and demos.\u00a0 Jean David and his mother are so sharp, they usually understand what it is we\u2019re asking.\u00a0 And, I am actually learning a teeny tiny bit of Creole along the way!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m so happy to have been able to take part in Jean David\u2019s therapy.\u00a0 He is such a strong, motivated and intelligent child.\u00a0 What an experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This is seven-year old, Jean David from Haiti. Jean David has Arthrogryposis, a rare genetic disorder which is characterized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/amyfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}