Learning to walk again after spine infection with the Andago - Rashide's Story

Rashide Serifi doesn't need to spend her life in a wheelchair due to functional movement therapy.
Rashide Serifi, a woman who had taken their destiny into their own hands. After complications during labour caused her to become paraplegic, she didn’t want to resign to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. With the help of the Ambulanticums in Herdecke, which sets new impulses in outpatient neurological therapy, she can make her first steps independently today.
After using Erigo for early rehabilitation and Lokomat for gait training, Rashide is now benefiting from the Andago to improve her balance and mobility. She is safeguarded with the body-weight support system but has to stay in the upright position to control her speed and keep her balance. Andago offers a safe and multifunctional gait training environment, helping patients with physical therapy exercises to walk again.
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[@mrlaw711]

Very moving and inspirational.

[@singjeffsing]

Excellent hard work. Congratulations on the abilities you have regained. To be fair to those with "complete" paraplegia, It's important to note that your paralysis is what's considered incomplete. If you take the transmission out of a car it will not go no matter how hard you push the accelerator pedal. There is usually a period of about 18 months after spinal cord injury where function or "return" is gained. You luckily regained some function and have obviously worked very hard to maximize what you have. I mention this because people see your success and judge those with complete injuries by the standards of someone whose injury is incomplete. Imagine rolling into a job interview and the immediate opinion is that you must be lazy or you wouldn't be in that chair? There is enough generalized stigma. Please be responsible and educate when you appear in media like this. Once again, keep up the hard work. You're doing very well!!!

[@HocomaChannel]

Dear singjeffsing, it is a very valid point that we have to educate - it is not so valid to refer to the 18-months-rule, though. Matter of fact, there are patients who are diagnosed complete who finally turn out to be not and can regain function even after years. This, of course does not and should not imply that "everybody can get back on to their feet". It needs a combination of several factors and hard work to walk again and we are glad we can be of support to those who have and take their chances. We do take our responsibility very serious and we are absolutely aware that there are patients who even with the strongest will have no chance to regain walking abilities. Kind regards Hocoma

[@SY-gx1xz]

Thank you for saying this. The title alone makes it sound like she cured her disability by sheer force of will. It's insulting to those of us who weren't able to recover and get compared to these miracle cases. This isn't typical and shouldn't be presented as such. Personally, it took me a long time to accept my illness and make the best of it by embracing my new body. Saying that this woman "worked her way to independence" is hurtful. I'm a wife, a mother, and a business owner. The wheelchair doesn't mean that I'm refusing to be independent; it gives me the freedom to be independent by using this valuable tool to get around as well as an able bodied person.

[@priyanka3608]

The level of injury matters a lot. I could be wrong but she looks like someone with an L level injury rather than T or C...In L cases recovery is very possible with some residual sensory and motor loss. Bowel and bladder issues can also persist. My level of injury is T4-T5 incomplete... I have regained some strength in my knees and can walk with AFOs and a walker but never recovered to normalcy. I use a wheelchair for the most part because doing chores with walker and AFOs might be unsafe as my right knee can buckle abruptly. I walk with AFOs and walker for therapeutic reasons...Getting used to the wheelchair was never my choice but a necessity.

[@steffennijhuis4143]

jacco nouwen (28-12-1968)

[@bryanacebedo1001]

how i wish to walk again but i cant afford to therapy ...so sad :( im only 26 yrs old from philippines ...but im happy for you girl ...

[@aziza2008]

Try healing your body with chi gong it helps anything can be healed with your efforts

[@xiangyumedical---georgeson8836]

How about you now? Bryan. Hope all you well. Or you can purchase therapy equipment and train. We are factory with cheaper price and good quality products. Hope can help you if you still need. Any way, I hope you've been all well already, no need these devices.

[@bryanacebedo1001]

@@xiangyumedical---georgeson8836 still can't walk ...no I can't afford that even if it cheap ... I'm just a poor , sometimes I can't buy my stuff like diaper catheter etc because I don't have money ... :(

[@xiangyumedical---georgeson8836]

@@bryanacebedo1001 Sorry to hear about that. Or you can learn your mother laguage well and teach other countries' students. Like China. It's also a high salary to do that. You will be rich someday. Come on.

[@luanahayth4817]

Spinal infection here 2020 I survived

[@kimh.1041]

Respect to her from germany 😊

[@aysenali]

hello good for her..,. i had a few operation on my back now i can feel my legs can u help me im sorry im doing it this way

[@xiangyumedical---georgeson8836]

How about now? Ali

[@deannalynne4454]

Wow!!! I aspire to walk again!!!

[@DJHGames-lv6to]

Deanna Lynne omg is your name deanna

[@DJHGames-lv6to]

Thats my name

[@jenniandevelinsalazar3492]

En donde puede tomar ese tipo de terapias

[@queen_alice_mc]

WOW!!! At first I thought that paraplegia has no cure, but now I can see that I was wrong.... Her story is unbelievable

[@SY-gx1xz]

ALICE C. MCQUEEN it doesn't. This is ableist propaganda.

[@nygirlinancworld1628]

Not everyone with paraplegia is "cured." I've been injured almost 19 years and I am not walking . It depends on how severe the damage was to your spinal cord and nerves.

[@jayrukks8039]

Great work!

[@kalpanaraina4611]

how can i contact you

[@dimitriskalogeridis8727]

i start crying on the end

[@rosinemille636]

Akoma on a pas la possibilité accéder dans un centre car on habite pas dans la région ma fille voudrez marcher

[@Kevdog1920]

Good job

[@elchicopoematico2157]

I've tried so hard to get myself a chance for me to be walking again but my therapist i was with told me I'm sorry I have no way to treat your brain injury 😔😔😔😟😢😭

[@keidoutricycle]

If your legs can still move ， you can try to use Keidou Trike.

[@oneoneleung2899]

She could try to use KEIDOU.

[@kensorono2039]

i wish to walk again

[@xiangyumedical---georgeson8836]

You will. How about now?

[@yugsingh5935]

Do you provide this facility in INDIA if yes please reply me soon

[@xiangyumedical---georgeson8836]

Do you still need the device? We are factory and can ship to you.

[@Kevdog1920]

I have to go to Germany to walk again after my hip got dislocated. Why can't it be in the states!

[@tacobob4123]

Because Obama stop all new medical tec. Now that Trump is in he will get the Ball rolling.

[@paulabowes2601]

Hi

[@mohammadjamshidy9517]

Where is here?? I'm 24 an i can't walk I wish walk again Plz tell me

[@xiangyumedical---georgeson8836]

We are rehab and physio euqipments supplier. Do you still need the device? I wish you all well.

[@fabianoperesrodrigues5172]

Music name?

[@DJ-lm4it]

How much is the therapy? Does the company accept quadriplegics?

[@xiangyumedical---georgeson8836]

We are rehab and physio euqipments supplier. Do you still need the device? I wish you all well.

[@salamaliraqi7128]

🌳♥️🌳👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@semaharfaoui5630]

Help me too.. I want to walk again like her.. Please 🙏

[@gulcanmustafi5616]

cok sukur

[@wallawallabingbeng]

Gulcan Mustafi, do you mean yourself?

[@carlosgamingvlogs8660]

Gulcan Mustafi she is desabled

[@user-yy1xf5es1q]

very sad i want my g.f