Many hundreds of patients have walked through the doors of the Spero Clinic in Arkansas – often crippled by debilitating chronic pain. Many suffered symptoms including lack of movement, inability to walk, and a host of other issues. More than 90% of those patients walked out of Spero’s door in full remission or completely healed after having gone through intensive treatment. Their stories are often heartbreaking, but with Spero’s unique treatments, they ended in a new chance in life.
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After battling severe Long COVID for over two years, 14-year-old Dylan Smith found a miraculous recovery through the Spero Clinic’s alternative treatment, which focuses on holistic healing of the central nervous system. Thanks to this groundbreaking care, Dylan went from being bedridden and dependent on a feeding tube to fully healed, active, and pain-free within just three months. Read the full article here.
Millions in the US struggle with chronic illnesses, finding limited relief in traditional medicine. The Spero Clinic, led by Dr. Katinka van der Merwe, offers a unique approach focused on healing the root cause.
In the United States alone, an estimated 129 million people are living with a major chronic disease or illness. While these numbers are alarming, there are fortunately many healthcare providers and holistic clinics taking the necessary steps to think outside the box. Thus, helping heal patients in ways that modern medicine simply can’t (or won’t) in a healthy, conducive way. Read the full article here.
Maryland family took teen to Arkansas for specialized holistic treatment.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — An Easton teenager who spent three years suffering terribly from long COVID is completely healed.
Dylan Smith was unable to move, speak or eat. When 11 News first met the Smith family, they were in a state of desperation and despair. Over the course of about two years, Dylan went from being an active, happy boy to bedridden with a feeding tube, suffering from chronic pain with pediatric long COVID. Read the full article here.
The Spero Difference
In her book, Putting Out the Fire, Founder and CEO of the Spero Clinic, Dr. Katinka van der Merwe, explains that “very few people understand daily chronic pain, not to mention conditions such as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) or CRPS. These conditions are like an uninvited bully quietly taking possession of your body. It rarely shows its face to the world as it tears you apart from the inside.”
The Spero Clinic wants to change that situation as the only facility in the world offering its unique treatment program. This treatment approach, designed by Dr. Katinka van der Merwe, is deeply rooted in basic chiropractic philosophy which stems from the belief that the body is a self-healing organism, capable of surviving and healing even catastrophic injuries. At the root of this self-healing mechanism of the body is the central nervous system, which regulates pretty much all functions in the body – from the brain to the different organs. Read the full article here.
EASTON, Md. — An Easton family was able to travel to a holistic medical facility in Arkansas for much-needed treatment for a teenager suffering from long COVID, all thanks to help from the community…
“I can move all of my body. I have the feeding tube out. I can talk, I can speak fully. Nerve pain is down to a zero, when it was at a 10,” Dylan said.
“It’s amazing isn’t it? It’s a miracle, it’s a miracle,” said Dylan’s mother, Stacey Smith.
The Spero Clinic has been successful with pediatric long COVID patients by treating the vagus nerve, a key part of the nervous system. For Dylan, progress was slow at first, but then, at the eight-week mark, it all changed. Read the full article here.
Fourteen years ago, Founder and CEO of the Spero Clinic, Dr. Katinka van der Merwe, treated her first patient suffering from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Since then, she has created a world-renowned system and surrounded herself with a dedicated team, capturing the attention of the media and doctors from across the globe.
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Imagine excruciating pain every single day. Imagine the sensation that your limbs are on fire, your bones are being crushed, and the feeling of being stabbed and electrocuted constantly. This isn’t medieval torture—it describes the symptoms of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a debilitating condition that affects approximately 200,000 Americans, including many teens.
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Crameri, who part owns star galloper Fully Lit, has battled Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a rare and painful neurological condition, for four years. She was told by Australian doctors that there was nothing to be done to help ease the excruciating pain that she likened to being ‘tortured non-stop’. However, after ending up in a clinic in Arkansas, the United States, she has revealed the amazing news that she is now pain-free and has gone into remission.
“I had lost all hope. My days had become full of me screaming out loud in pain with an endless stream of tears…I had become a prisoner in my own body and I was being tortured non-stop.”
She added that CRPS is commonly known as ‘the suicide disease’ and that she tried taking her own life ‘on three separate occasions’. The disease affected the dominant side of Crameri’s body, making ordinary day-to-day tasks extremely painful.
She has been pain-free for two weeks, with the Spero Clinic claiming to be the ‘only facility in the world’ to offer the kind of treatment that has helped cure Crameri. Read the full article here.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — One Kansas City, Kansas mom’s fight to walk again is bigger than just her. She wants the simple joys that many take for granted back. Things like playing with her four-year-old or going somewhere without having to call ahead. She lost her ability to walk, to move around, she relies on a motorized wheelchair. The condition is so painful that an epidemiological survey found nearly 50 percent of people with CRPS contemplate suicide.
“That has went across my mind regularly, that they would be better off without me just because of everything you deal with. After finding the Spero clinic, it’s given me hope, it’s given me hope and made me think completely different,” she said.
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