Hirudotherapy Helps Heal Brain Injury

Ceren was at home celebrating her daughter’s birthday, when she suddenly felt that something was drastically wrong. Upon noticing his mother was in distress, her oldest son asked if she was okay. Ceren responded by saying, “Call 911 immediately.”

Within 10 minutes Ceren was on her way to the hospital, where she was admitted, diagnosed with a brain hemorrage due to a ruptured aneurysm, and was rushed into an operating room for emergency surgery.

Although she was grateful for her life-saving operation, Ceren awoke unable to talk, walk, recall, or read. “I could see the words on the page, but I was unable to say them,” Caren explained.

Over the course of the next five years, Ceren was able to regain her ability to walk, but she was still unable to speak (known medically as Broca’s aphasia), or read aloud – and she still struggled with her memory. When sharing her frustration regarding her trouble remembering things, and her lack of progress with speech and reading aloud, her friend recommended that she visit Seraph Medical. She immediately scheduled an appointment and booked a flight from her home in Washington DC to Los Angeles, to see if the Seraph Medical team could help.

After examining Ceren, reviewing her medical records and running tests, the Seraph Medical team recommended that she undergo a series of hirudotherapy treatments.

Hirudotherapy is the application of medical leeches to the patient, in order to increase blood flow to the treatment area and infuse natural anticoagulants.

“You sometimes feel like there’s something there, but there is no pain. They started with the leeches behind my ears, one on each side, which we did for like two weeks. And then we went to the back of my head – where I didn’t feel anything,” recounted Ceren.

After one month of hirudotherapy treatments at Seraph Medical, Ceren exclaimed, “I could talk, read aloud, and remember things. My brain and my mouth finally worked together!”

Ceren’s determination to regain all of her bodily and cognitive functions lead her to being under the care of a sophisticated medical team at Seraph Medical, who work in collaboration with the scientific team at the Seraph Research Institute – where researchers work to develop advanced treatment protocols for chronic and terminal illnesses, through the use of science-based medicine and integrative therapies that not only attacks the diseases but also bolsters the body’s own immune system.

“I can only say thank you to everyone at Seraph Medical, who gave my life back. I’m just so thankful.”