A new spinal cord injury treatment is getting patients back on their feet
September 10, 2018 by Kathleen Masterson, University of California, San Francisco
: Susan Merrell
Matt Wetschler was bodysurfing at Ocean Beach in San Francisco when he went for a wave and didn't come back up. Some other surfers saw his body floating like a log and pulled him ashore.
He was lucky: an ICU nurse happened to be walking along the beach and started CPR. By the time the ambulance arrived and shocked him, he had a heartbeat again. But his injury was serious – he'd fractured two vertebrae in his neck from hyperextension.
Wetschler was rushed to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Unit (ZSFG), where he became the first patient to undergo an innovative new protocol for treating severe spine injuries.
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