Young Woman's Healthy Knee Ruined By Surgeon 's Experiment

[datzfast]

she should have never hired a lawyer, a professinal hit man should have been hired.

[dogmattic1357]

@datzfast : Our lawyer in Germany actually helped take down the AlphaKlinik, and thus put Toft out of business. The innocent staff of that clinic (ie everyone except the 3 chief surgeons), are now working for the new clinic atos-muenchen.de . Toft owes something like 300,000 Euro or more to various people ... ergo, no one can find him. I'm betting that he is still living it up ... and will need to finance his lifestyle ... and will thus dig a very deep hole for himself.

[spinesupport]

google: Alpha-Klinik: Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen Ex-Chefs

Chefärzte werden der Unterschlagung und Insolvenzverschleppung verdächtigt – Zivilprozess soll am 13. Februar beginnen

Head physicians are suspected of the embezzlement and insolvency misappropriation - civil proceedings

Google: Pleite! Münchner Promi-Arzt abgetaucht

"Allegedly Toft is in London or Moscow" owes huge debts to architects, banks and employees. Toft lawyer: where he is exactly, we do not know"

[MELISSA84008]

I am crying for your friend.( I had 3 knee surgeries in 5 months. 2 acl repairs. and then last Monday I had left knee ligament replacement. The Dr. told me today at my post-op visit,that he found bone chips under my knee-cap and had to shave them. ??? Now I'm scared after reading what you wrote.) I am SO sorry for this poor girl!!! Thank God she has you to support her!! Did she have the back surgery???I will pray for you both!!!! I can't believe this happened,its so tragic!!!

[fraydcat]

You are not saying a whole lot here and it sounds vague...The knee surgery sounded like it was a bad idea with out a lot of research on her part...and NOW there is a problem...the back problem sounds like she had multiple disc problems and not just a re-do of the one first operated on...

Watching this makes me wonder what are you trying to say...You didn't do enough research and now you got what you got...

Sorry...

[spinesupport]

Yes, we did not do research before the Knee surgery. That is because the Surgeon said he would CHECK for a torn Medial Meniscus. Instead, he SHAVED the patella - no warning, no discussion. Every Knee doctor who has seen this video says it was perfectly healthy before. Incidentally, the AlphaKlinik is shut-down now. Even in Germany it is ILLEGAL to experiment on people. Shaving Chondroplasty is described as Experimental in most publications.

[fraydcat]

Wow, that seems where it went wrong...what was the guy thinking? The back surgery is always a gamble no matter what...A friend of mine just came back from Germany yesterday, but it was at another place, and they did the procedure using a titanium device with a polymer type replacement disc...He was up and walking a day after his surgery and he seems to be getting around better already...so we will see the long term effects or this and hopefully it will be a good outcome. I wish your friend well.

[spinesupport]

Thanks for the kinds words.

For us, it was a conspiracy of coincidences. We were working in Germany - unlike most Americans who visit Germany. We were stuck there because of the (one) disc-problem. We were naive, because we had never had any medical issues before. A year later, and the AlphaKlinik would have been gone already. We were stupid enough to go to a surgeon who BOASTS of 35,000 Knee surgeries. He's the best, because he said so. Now we know the truth. And we are paying for it.

[toby099]

this could of been me actually, im glad my physio got my VMO strengthened

[spinesupport]

@toby099 Yes, that is exactly what the literature states one should do for any degree of chondromalacia: Strengthen the Vastus Medialus Obliquus - and about 10 other options before surgery.

Unfortunately, we were naive and trusted the surgeon. This Shaving was never mentioned - so how could we question it? We were told 'check medial meniscus - its urgent!'

For an excellent page on the subject, google "Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome: A Review and Guidelines for Treatment"

[toby099]

thats sad, does all kneecap shaving have a end result like this? or just unessecary shaving? sounds like the procedure shouldnt be performed at all.

[spinesupport]

Consider: If you agree to a surgery to have your left knee ACL fixed, and the surgeon chops off your right leg?

In the same manner, if the surgeon puts in writing that he is going to check for a torn medial meniscus, and NEVER mentions anything about touching the Patella, ... and then he shaves your patella cartilage AND, every surgeon in the world says the patella was perfectly healthy ... AND the operating surgeon says Shaving Chondroplasty is ONLY to save a knee from TKR? Would you sue?

[jon22222222222222222]

holy crap i´m confused. so which surgery was experimental? which one ruined her knee?

[spinesupport]

The Knee surgery was experimental. The cartilage is perfectly healthy. Only Grade III-IV Chondromalacia warrants shaving. Hers is perfectly healthy. We tried to sue, but the German lawyers just took our money and ignored us. Thus, it is obvious that they use 'vulnerable' people for experiments, knowing the lawyers will cover for them.

The spine surgeries were il-advised, but, the ADR surgery was totally contraindicated (according to numerous Spine Surgeons and the German board of Medicine.