Cedar City Man to Receive Implant To Help Against Tourette's Syndrome
Jun. 1, 2005

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After more than a year, including six months under sedation...a
Cedar City man with uncontrollable muscle spasms and tics is about
to get what he's been waiting for.

Ed Yeates joins us tonight with some long awaited news about Peter
Jensen.

You may remember Peter Jensen from our report last November. He has
one of the most severe cases of Tourette Syndrome doctors have ever
seen.

But as of this hour, he's finally on his way to Cleveland to try
something that just might cure him.

Several weeks ago, Peter was pulled off medications, to get ready
for an experimental implant he was beginning to think would never
come.

The tics, the spasms from his Tourette Syndrome have only worsened.
In fact, his doctor put him in a nursing home, sedated, simply to
keep his body from wearing out.

But now, it's packing day - and a flight to the University Hospital
in Cleveland, Ohio for a procedure that's only been tried on one
other patient with Tourette's.

PETER: "I THINK THE GREATEST THING ABOUT IT IS (TICS) IT'S SOMETHING
I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER SEE IN MY LIFETIME."

For that first patient, Jeff Matovic, the brain implant worked,
shutting down 85 to 90 percent of his tics.

From this - to this.

Will it now happen for Peter?

It's a risk worth taking, he says, not only for him, but his wife
and kids.

ROSHANA JENSEN: "I THINK IT'S BEEN TRYING NOT TO HAVE A FATHER
FIGURE AROUND ALL THE TIME TO PLAY WITH AND ROMP WITH AND DO WHAT
THEY NORMALLY DO."

PETER: "I THINK THERE IS JUST GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL FEELING AND
ANSWER TO PRAYERS - AS WELL AS JUST (TICS) A TIME FOR PEACE AND
QUIETNESS, I THINK."

ED YEATES: "PETER WILL HAVE HIS FIRST SURGERY THIS COMING FRIDAY - A
SECOND SURGERY A WEEK LATER. AND THEN IN THE THIRD WEEK, THEY TURN
THE IMPLANT ON."

If pacemakers on each side of his chest send signals to electrodes
implanted in the brain - and they work - and the tics stop.

PETER: "IT WILL BE PARTY ON ITS OWN - SMILES"

Peter will stay in Cleveland until the middle or end of July. It
will take a while to custom adjust the pacemakers to his needs - to
stop most if not ALL of the tics.

Editors Comments:

The medical process is known as - Deep Brain Stimulation or DBS.

Source
KLS-TV 5
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=39&sid=209174
Visit Page Above to: Watch Clip Video from KSL-TV:
Cedar City Man to Receive Implant To Help Against Tourette's
Syndrome


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