Rhythma Kaul, Hindustan Times
February 19, 2011
Botox, the wonder neurotoxin that has helped iron out wrinkles and creases on several famous faces, is now being used to treat conditions as varied as spasticity, migraine, muscle spasm, multiple sclerosis and excessive sweating. The wrinkle-killer helped Megha Chandna, 19, get out of bed after two long years. The Haryana state basketball player from Modern Vidya Niketan, Faridabad, developed paralysis when a car hit the scooter she was riding on the way for her Class 12 exams. An injury to her brain resulted in paralysis of the right side, making her unable to use her right leg, hand and fingers.Two years and three botox injections later, her mother cannot hold back her tears at the sight of her holding a pen in her right hand. “For two years, her right arm stayed folded over her chest, but now she can stretch her arm and move her fingers,” said her mother Kiran Chandna. The first shot was given six months after the accident in August 2009, the second in November 2009, and the third, a year later in November 2010.
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