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Barbara Mallut wrote: > > Emily.... > > Your MD is uniformed. Dr. Gerald Burke, of UCLA's Neck and > Throat Clinic has been performing this procedure on Parkies for a coupla > years and it's become SO mainstream that Kaiser Permanente, the > world's oldest and largest HMO provides it for THEIR patients. > > As a matter of fact, this procedure has been around for YEARS and is > used WORLD WIDE on cancer patients who've had treatment on their > vocal cords, and for other patients who've other types of medical > problems with their vocal cords (i.e., injury due to accidents, etc). It's > also commonly used on elderly men who've suffered loss of vocal volume > due to aging. > > The procedure IS relatively new where Parkinson's treatment is > concerned because no one ever THOUGHT of using it on Parkies till > about 2 years ago. Dr . Burke was apparently the first MD to THINK > of, and TRY the procedure on Parkinson's patients. It was very > successful, and the rest, as they say, is history. > > I'm sending you, via email, a copy of the UCLA Web about the collagen > injection procedure and suggest you print a copy of it and send it on to > your MD in order to further enlighten her. > > Barb Mallut > [log in to unmask] > > -------- > From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of jim and emily jackson > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 5:38 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN > Subject: collagen injections > > barb malllut: re your recent (ongoing?) collagen injections--we asked our > neurologist last night about them when she was lauding the botox > solution--she said they are not approved in the US and only available in > Europe. True? Are yours in the "experimental" category, or is she simply > uninformed? > > Emily Jackson > > [log in to unmask] To: Barbara Mallut Please send me via E-mail a copy of the UCLA Web about the collagen injection procedure. I am seriously considering having it done, since my voice is one of the things that has been affected most by Parkinson's. Tom McMahon E-mail address is [log in to unmask]