Dr. Katinka and her team saved my life ❤️. I can’t thank them enough for their love, patience, understanding and knowledge. I have been in remission from CRPS now for 17 months. CRPS pain free!!! God has given Dr. K and her staff a great gift of healing. All of us who have this hopeless desease have seen countless doctors and have tried countless treatments. I can say without a doubt, Spero clinic gives you hope and healing. I am so thankful for my life. I’m enjoying my family, animals and lots of activities. Spero is worth the time and money. I can promise that going in with a positive attitude knowing you will heal is all you need and they will do the rest. Please go, don’t wait!!!

I got CRPS from a knee surgery and I was lost, I thought I had lost my life because I couldn’t control my leg or do anything without pain. When I came to the Spero clinic, I was immediately greeted with love and care. I’m now on my journey to getting better and I’ve already noticed such a huge difference. I can sleep without pain and walk without pain.

I will never stop thanking Dr. Katinka and her team for saving my life.

The most magical and healing place for CRPS warriors. I have never been given such sincere care. They fight for you! Dr Katinka and all the staff are changing & saving lives here!

I spent so much time researching CRPS treatment options and treatment centers, and this is easily, hands down, the ONLY one I found world wide that’s worth going to!!
I would highly recommend it to anyone with any type of chronic pain, neurological problems, or serious injuries that stump western medicine!!
I was here for 36 weeks, and couldn’t say enough good, glowing things about this place! People actually care and understand here what you’re going through, and how to help you get better! I was not paid to say these things. This place is NOT too good to be true. This is real!
If you’re struggling like I was for 6 years with full body crps, look no further. Your search is over, fundraise money, and get here asap! Read the book, website, testimonials, and give the clinic a call when you’re ready, and you’ll see for yourself! You won’t be disappointed! The staff is absolutely wonderfully kind, compassionate, and passionate about helping people with chronic pain or neurological issues of all sorts!
I highly recommend reading Dr. Katinka Van Der Merwe’s book, “Putting Out The Fire: New Hope for RSD/CRPS!” It really helped me understand the history and mechanics of how crps works much better! You can find the book on amazon.

We cannot say thank you enough for what the Spero Clinic has done for our 11-year-old son. Struggling with EDS for over 3 years . Going from doctor to doctor with no answers and symptoms getting worse. Chronic headaches, extreme hypermobility, gastrointestinal issues, chronic inflammation, pain that some days would be beyond a 10 and stay for days. We finally found our hope and healing ❤️. The staff became like family to us. Genuine, charismatic individuals who love what they do and just want to see the best for their patients. Forever grateful for Dr. Katinka and all of her staff. I can happily say we are still pain-free and our son is finally getting his life back playing baseball once again.

Thank you Dr. Katinka and your entire team of Super Heroes!
Your tireless efforts are miraculous and life changing!
My son is a new man and we will never forget the impact you have made in both of our lives!
God Bless you all!

I was diagnosed at age 14 with CRPS from a cheerleading injury. My mom searched for years for a doctor who truly understood CRPS. She finally discovered Dr. Katinka, and I began my treatment at this clinic when I was 18 years old. Immediately after treatment, I was able to go be a college cheerleader for the next 4 years. I am now 23 years old living a normal, pain-free life— all because of this clinic, Dr. Katinka, and my therapist Tamie! This clinic allowed me to live a normal life again, and for that, I am forever thankful! Remission is possible!

Spero is what the definition of a doctors office should be. Doctors that listen, are continuously learning, and always fighting for you. The staff knows more than just your pain and symptoms… they know your goals and what motivates you. You’re not just a random patient in the time slot. Walking into the clinic everyday and being greeted by name, it’s something I’ve never experienced before. I came to Spero with experience after experience where doctors don’t want to work with you because they don’t know what to do for you CRPS after every treatment they try fails, or because they think the pain can’t “be that bad”, and to sit down with Dr. Katinka and watch her think of ideas and possible ways to treat all the complexities that come with CRPS, everyday all day, never giving up, that was what I needed. That was the fight I needed to keep me fighting. The Spero Clinic forever holds the title for most magical place on earth!

Spero Clinic is truly a place of miracles and healing. My husband had full body CRPS for 24 years when we started treatment here. Needless to say, before that, we had gone through every treatment available to us through the medical community – nerve blocks, SCS, pain management through oral and intrathecal opiates, ketamine infusions – but with little or no success. My husband has healed completely after his treatment at Spero! I’m writing this review after a year, and the treatment has stood the test of time. He is pain-free and drug-free, something I hadn’t ever thought possible. Dr Katinka and her team are absolutely the best, and we both owe our lives to them.

To try and put into words what Dr. Katinka and the whole team at Spero Clinic has done for our family, well I’m at a loss we ALL have our lives back it deserves more then 5 stars!! Our daughter now 23 is now living a normal adult life, pain free, 0 CRPS/Pain medicines & her neurological stimulator has been off since 12/1/20 CRPS alodynia and gastoperisis for 3 years both legs waist down. Thank you isn’t sufficient enough for the gratitude we feel. The whole team from first call to ringing the bell became more like family than a Clinic. They were there to laugh, cry, fight and win against this horrible thing that is CRPS. This clinic in Fayetteville is where miracles happen everyday!!

If only I could give more than 5 stars – I would!! When you walk inside the four walls of the centre, your life is changed forever. Doctors who believe you. Therapists who want to help you. Patients who understand you. Like many other CRPS warriors, I was told for years that my gruelling suffering from CRPS was in my head – after my first day at the clinic I cried. Cried because I felt believed. Listened to. Understood. Hopeful. I am forever grateful for Dr Katinka and her team for giving me a second chance at life.

Absolutely the best place to get relief from CRPS. I travelled all the way from Australia to get treated and can’t recommend it enough. The dedication and capability of the staff to help we as patients heal is nothing short of miraculous. Dr Katinka won’t stop at anything to help you get you life back.

I went to the Spero Clinic a few months after being diagnosed with CRPS. I was in a wheelchair, and at my worst, I was having dysautonomic seizures over 10 times a day. After being treated by Dr. Katinka and her incredible team I am fully healed. I have no lingering symptoms of CRPS or seizures. This place is truly saving lives – I was a shell of a person, bed-bound and will little fight left when I arrive in Arkansas all the way from Ohio. Now I am able to do anything and everything – I am a healthy, happy 21 year old because of this amazing place. The tag line for the Spero Clinic is “while I breath, I hope” and that “hope is burning.” Dr. Katinka and every one of her amazing staff members not only gave me back hope but fought alongside me every day until that hope for a full life was realized. And many months later I am still living a full life!!! I cannot recommend this place and these doctors enough.

I was treated at the Spero Clinic in 2016 for CRPS. You will not find a more comprehensive treatment solution for neurological disorders than Spero. From Dr Katinka to the entire staff you will not find anyone that will fight harder for you. They make miracles happen for those of us cast aside by the traditional medical community.

I will remember Dr. Katinka my life long as a doctor who gave my life back. For me she is a unique healthgiver that had the courage, the passion and the skills to find (also sharing and searching further) a new protocol for chronic CRPS, a very complex condition. This condition is for many healthgivers not treatable. I came, really hopeless, after having crps for 5,5 years. I gave Dr. Katinka the time, my trust and my co-operation to find the best personal way to heal me. And yes, I did (and I saw with my own eyes that so many other patients did): after only ten weeks , I toke the plane back to built up the first stone of my adult life. No wheelchair or crutches anymore. A miracle was happened. I run, bike, swim, climb... Dr. Katinka chose her team wisely what makes the center is whithout any doubt a place of professionality, passion and positivity.

I have been dealing with CRPS for 11 years. It started when I broke my foot in high school and has been completely downhill since then. The last five years, I have been completely bedridden, only leaving the house for doctor appointments. I have tried every treatment that was available to me including ketamine infusions, lidocaine infusions, IVIG, spinal cord stimulator trial, plasmapheresis, acupuncture, physical therapy, massage therapy, Calmare, nerve blocks, neridronic acid and medication. If I was lucky, my pain would be maintained at a 7 or 8, but nothing actually moved me forward. I was feeling pretty helpless. That is, until I started treatment here. It has been eight weeks and I have improved so much. My pain is a zero (which is a sentence that I literally never thought that I would be able to type). I’m starting to remember what life is like without extreme, unbearable pain every second of my life. Dr. Katinka and her staff are the most amazing team that I have ever met. Every single person cares about what they do and truly want to see you well. I am still dealing with some flaring, but my treatment isn’t over yet. I can confidently say that Dr. K has given me my life back. I honestly thought that there was no curing me, and now I am so excited for what the future holds for me. I can not recommend this place enough.

What an AMAZING place that’s so caring, kind, compassionate and knowledgeable to take on the near hopeless and turn them…US…around and give them not just hope, but LIFE again! I couldn’t be more grateful to Dr. K. and her staff for all they’ve done for me and my family. After over five years with CRPS and countless doctors, treatments, and more I can tell you that there is no other place that has done for me or others. You can see the life come back in their faces, their expressions, their smiles and there’s none like it. None. The doctor, staff are not only professional, but became friends and there is no better cheering team that I’ve seen, other than my family – who absolutely rock, that will root for your success and celebrate your victory over chronic pain diseases. I’m not only pain free, but I’m physically better off through the therapy than prior to CRPS. If anyone suffers from CRPS, fibromyalgia etc, this is THE place to go to, hands down. I could go into detail about the different treatments and even discount the smear campaign that an individual, won’t mention Kay or her minions name, are making efforts to do, but there’s a place for that. I never saw pain levels below a 7 out of 10 and typically my days hovered in the 8-10 out of 10 range and thanks to Dr. Katinka and the center I’m pain free!