Did Botox Kill Girl With Cerebral Palsy?

Botox on Trial - Family says Overdose Killed Girl

A first of it's kind trial is underway in California. A mother claims her 7 year old daughter died after being treated for Cerebral Palsy with Botox.

The Same Botox used in Cosmetic procedures has also been used to relax the muscles in stroke victims and of children with Cerebral Palsy.

Botox has also been used in the treatment of SD.

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F.D.A. Orders Warning Label for Botox and Rivals
NEW YORK TIMES, Business Section, Page B2
By NATASHA SINGER

Botox and other similar anti-wrinkle drugs must now carry the most stringent kind of warning label, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.
The F.D.A. issued that order the day after the agency approved a new drug, Dysport, that is expected to be the first real challenger to Botox in the United States. Like Botox, Dysport is an injectable drug derived from the paralytic agent botulinum toxin.

Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD): Current Treatment and Research

At the 1998 Pacific Voice Conference I presented cures of SD by Direct Voice Rehabilitation (DVR). I presented cures of people who had been diagnosed with the most severe SD by the UCLA Medical Center’s Head and Neck Division, considered as one of the foremost hospitals and medical centers in the world. The SD diagnoses were made by some of the Medical Center’s Head and Neck Division’s top physicians, including Dr. Paul Ward, ENT, who was the chairman of the Medical Center’s Head and Neck Division preceding the present chairman, Dr. Gerald Berke. For instance, Berke diagnosed Gayle Pace as having Adductor/Abductor SD. She was cured under my care by DVR. Pace remains cured of SD twelve years after my program of DVR. Ward diagnosed Marjorie Whitman with SD so severe, Dr. Ward recommended surgery. Whitman declined. She recovered a normal voice by DVR. Rev. Henry Sellers reports that Dr. Berke had diagnosed him as having a focal laryngeal dystonia (SD). Rev. Sellers was also cured and remains cured by DVR. Dr. Berke diagnosed SD for Mr. Robin. Botox was advised. Mr. Robin opted for DVR and is cured of SD.

The medical orientation says... There are no cures of Spasmodic Dysphonia

Dr. Morton Cooper is the only Doctor in the world reporting ongoing cures by Direct Voice Rehabilitation (DVR) of the spasmodic voice (SD), (adductor, abductor and mixed) as well as many other types of voice problems for over 30 years.

The American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) misinforms, misleads, misdirects those with the problem called Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD) to these websites of special interest, the Medical dystonia association, and the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association (NSDA). ASHA’s website directs those with SD to the websites to seek Botox for SD, and/or surgery. The NSDA guarantees there are no cures of SD. The NSDA is given generous donations of money from Allergan the maker of Botox.

January 15, 2007 Voice Update

No jokes today on “serious Sunday.”

Many of you asked about my voice. As I’ve explained in this blog, about two years ago I suddenly acquired a bizarre and exotic voice problem called spasmodic dysphonia. I couldn’t speak for about 18 months unless I was on stage doing my public speaking, or alone, or singing. The rest of the time my vocal cords would clench and I could barely get out a word.

Other people with this condition report the same bizarre symptoms. We can also often speak perfectly in funny British accents but not in our own voices. We can speak after we have laughed or yawned. Sometimes it helps to pinch our noses or cover our ears. I found I can talk okay if I stretch my head back and look at the ceiling or close my eyes. And we can all sing and hum just fine.

Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD) is curable. SD is not a disease, or a dystonia, or a neurological problem, or related to reflux acid cause, or molecular biology cause or chemical imbalance in the brain or a basal ganglia problem. These are all failed medical theories. The medical profession has no cures of SD, ever. Not since Traube in 1871 first described SD as “nervous hoarseness.” You know why it was called nervous hoarseness? Because when you talk with SD voice, you sound nervous and should be. It is an off putting frightening voice.

Dr. Mort Cooper remains the only one in the country, in the world reporting ongoing cures of SD by a simple approach that involves direct voice behavior modification help, revolving about intensive training for one to four weeks, or more. Dr. Cooper’s cures of SD, and recoveries, remain proven and confirmed. Dr. Cooper had published in peer review reporting his cures of SD in 1970, The Travis Handbook of Speech Pathology and Audiology, in Modern Techniques of Vocal Rehabilitation, Dr. Cooper’s textbook, 1973 in 1980 in the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatry (IALP), at major medical meetings including the Walter Reed Army hospital, 1980, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 1982, and re-invited back in 1990. Cooper presented SD cures at the Pacific Voice Conference, 1998, among other presentations. Dr. Cooper has presented his cures and recoveries from SD at the American Speech –Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) nationally dating back to 1974, 1979, 1980, and 2000 (for three hours in Washington, DC.) Dr. Cooper has presented cures and recoveries from SD in the California Speech-Language and Hearing society (CSHA) four times covering a span of time from 1970 on.