Isabela

The Brazilian girl Isabela Scomparim Sueiro is known where she lives as the “little great warrior”. Since she arrived in this world, in October 2009, her days were full of struggle, but of many victories too! Isabela was born well and healthy, but when she was one week old, it was discovered that she had a cardiac malformation called “coarctation of the aorta”. Her health condition deteriorated rapidly and at ten days of life she underwent urgent cardiac surgery.

Due to the lack of adequate oxygenation at the time when she had her special little heart operated, Isabela had a large brain injury as a sequel, predominantly on the left, in the motor and language area, causing a global delay and impairing all her movements . When she was seven months old, she was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and the parents immediately started early stimulation programs, going through some therapeutic methods until just before completing one year of life, they were introduced to the “Cuevas Medek Exercises” method. In a short time of work, motor gains began to appear and happy with the results, the family continued to bet on the method.

In December 2012, when Isabela was 3 years old, the family managed to bring her in for her first intensive treatment with Ramon Cuevas at the CME Center- Chile. The results were amazing. In addition to many gains in the motor and balance, Isabela also showed gains in communicative and language functions and a surprising gain in feeding functions, becoming able to chew and swallow solids and grains without the choking that was frequent before. These “side effects” of CME therapy have always drawn a lot of attention in Isa’s picture. As the motor functions developed, many cognitive, psychological and social gains were also being noticed. Between December 2012 and January 2020, Isabela has already undergone another 60 weeks of intensive treatment with Ramon Cuevas in Chile.

The family saw Isa’s story completely change. At 5 years of age, she acquired independent walking and full sphincters control. Gradually, she gained autonomy in various activities of daily life. she is now able to jump, run, overcome obstacles and with each cycle of intensive treatment she continues to show many gains. At the age of 6 years, on the recommendation of Ramon Cuevas, she underwent a gradual stepwise fibrotomy surgery in Spain using the Ulzibatt method, and with the stretching of the tendons, it was possible to advance even more in the global motor part and balance. From the point of view of communication and language, speech and language difficulties were also gradually being overcome during the CME treatment and today, at 11 years old, Isabela speaks, reads and writes normally like other children of her age. Her story can be followed by the social networks “Wings for Isabela”, which bring videos, photos and reports of the evolution of this little girl, who flies ever higher. *Due to the Covid19 pandemic, Isabela’s treatment was paused, currently only with Home Program exercises, but we hope that it can happen again as soon as possible, the reopening of the Chilean borders and the reopening of the CME Center Chile clinic.

– Vanessa And Alexandre, Isabela’s parents