Costs

What is the hardest thing for a paralyzed person to do? It is to go from zero to 1. Going from 1 to 100 is easy, it just requires discipline and hard work. It is the going from nothing to something that is the critical and most difficult first step for any spinal cord patient in their recovery process. Without that, sadly, a paralyzed person will stay paralyzed.

As outlined in the section What do you know about paralysis? It is outlined how the rehab industry’s reliance on the theory of neuroplasticity fools a person into thinking that months or years of easy, repetitive work is what will cause results. Under Daniel’s approach if you can not show progress, go from zero to 1, within 2 months, then it is likely that your chances of recovery are very low, but not necessarily zero. No one knows. Daniel has had clients work for 2 months and make no progress, then continue with the program on their own and then improved to be able to walk in the months following.

It is all about understanding the process, becoming educated in what are the natural benchmarks that need to be reached in what order, and working to achieve them. You will be required to be an active participant in your recovery, not to be reliant on a system that does not care whether you succeed or fail.

Daniel charges a flat rate of either US$2500 or US$1750 a month (3 sessions a week/2 sessions a week) for online coaching and direction for a dedicated helper or team of helpers (family/friends) to provide home rehabilitation under the YEATS SMD protocol. Daniel is forthright and blunt. He is not here to screw people out of money by having them be patients for years on end doing meaningless exercises that will do nothing. His goal is to make improvement asap. For some of his clients it has been a matter of days to start standing after months or years of paralysis.

The online coaching sessions last one hour, either twice or three times a week and occur over WhatsApp. It is expected that patients are also doing extra work outside of the sessions done with him. Patients that do this have shown to always have the fastest recovery. Unlike the mainstream rehab industry Daniel is not here to baby sit clients. His role is to instruct and demonstrate to them how to take control over their injury and fight to make improvement in the best way possible, in the shortest time possible.

Putting this cost in perspective. The care for a quadriplegic in the first year after injury is estimated at US 1 million dollars. For a paraplegic US$500,000. There are the never ending costs of nursing care, equipment, and adaptations. Rehab equipment costs are ridiculous. An FES bike runs in the range of US$27,000 and will do absolutely nothing to improve any SCI patients functionality. Standard rehab assistive equipment for a SCI starts at US$10,000. Treatment at most independent SCI clinics, while possibly less expensive, have programs that patients are typically on for years, using the ineffective bullshit methodology of neuroplasticity to justify years of needed rehab, and the patient will likely still have no change in their function. There are also clinicians and clinics worldwide that charge $1000 per hour, or $70,000 a month, for services and treatments that still rely on hope. Daniel doesn’t rely on hope. He has had patients who have spent upwards of $500,000 on pursuing care all over the world without results before finding him. In fact literally all of his clients had no progress at ANY clinic before they worked with him. Daniel cannot guarantee he can help everyone, but if he can, then it will happen quickly.