Boy With Crippling ‘Suicide Disease’ Takes First Steps in a Year After Traveling to US for Pioneering Treatment

Dillon Wilford suffers from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) which is so painful it’s dubbed the ‘suicide disease’ The 11-year-old was diagnosed with CPRS in January after months of trying to find the cause of the pain which left medical professionals stumped. Doctors in Houston, Texas, treated Dillon with a VECTTOR machine, which delivers a form of electro-stimulation to nerves to reduce pain. The treatment, which takes 80 minutes, is given twice daily, but some patients are able to drop back to once a day after the first few weeks.

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