Col. Mohammad Ismail Wardak, M.D., the Afghan orthopedic surgeon who taught us all about the spirit of innovation by inventing the Afghan Knee Device in an old bicycle shop under the noses of the Taliban is looking for some advice from his colleagues.
Dr. Wardak put up a Facebook posting on December 9, 2014 which included a video of a young woman unable to walk.
“Who is she?
Her name is Samany from Herat.
She can’t walk for last 21 years.
She has CP we admitted her in Sardar Dawod hospital as another interesting case by help of Siawash sahib.
We decided to operate [on] her soon and it will be a major surgery in 6-8 regions on nerves and tendons of both lower limbs.
The recovery will take some time so plz if you have any idea regarding such case let me know.
Also I wish you all pray for the success of this operation and walking of that young lady.”
Dr. Wardak told us that he would like some comments regarding the calf muscles if they perform a “close tenotomy of Achilles tendon only or mixed with neurotomy for calf muscles.”
Here is the video of the young woman.
Please contact Dr. Wardak directly at: ismailredi2000@gmail.com or drismailredi2000@yahoo.com.
Dear Walter:
Thank you for announcing the news regarding my patient Samana.
We just done a 2 hours long surgery for her and we did the following surgical procedures for her
1-Bilateral nervictomy of obturature nerves
2-bilateral tenotomy of tigh adductors
3-Bilateral tenotomy of rectus femoris
4-bilateral tenotomy of hamstring
5-bilateral nervictomy of branches for both gastrecnimus heads and soleos
6-Bilateral closed tenotomy of achilis
Finally we put her limbs in bilateral long leg cast at an abducted position for three weeks.
Hope she walk after a period of physiotherapy.
Best Regards
Dr Wardak