Mary Keszler, M.D. | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Mary Keszler, M.D., is a rehabilitation physician specializing in amputee rehabilitation. Her expertise includes prosthetics prescription, management of post-amputation pain and hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), as well as wound care. Dr. Keszler works closely with prosthetists, therapists and other medical professionals to help patients improve quality of life and achieve functional independence.

Dr. Keszler is fellowship-trained in amputation rehabilitation. During her years as a fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle and a resident at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, she was also actively involved in research. Dr. Keszler has co-authored several papers on amputation rehabilitation, neuropathic pain syndromes and phantom limb pain.

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I am a level one trauma nurse of many years that worked at leading facilities. I was going to be a flight nurse. I give this background to let you know I am familiar with trauma. I am no longer a trauma nurse which was my passion, secondary to consenting to this procedure I was told was safe and effective.

I am addressing those in rehabilitation medicine. I am asking for help in addressing these brain injury outcomes, now proved around devices in the California courts. The issue is electroshock or ECT. We have sustained repeated brain injuries at the hands of trusted providers. We are now sustaining further damages from providers, in trying to find help, and this is where I turn to your profession.

Since providers do not want to implicate other providers nor facilities, never mind their risk their medical career if they were to expose this, we as victims of this are greatly suffering. I do not like to use the word victim, but here it applies. 

I am diligent with my own care in trying to recover from this and am far from silent when I cannot access needed resources. I am lucky in this way to be outspoken and to have a background that is well aware of testing needed and what has transpired around this. I am met with the same as my peers often in spite of this. 

We are TBI survivors just as any other survivor, only our mechanism of injury being electrical was delivered by physicians hands. We struggle daily to maintain our lives after not just one head injury, but multiples. We are told we have not been harmed. We are gas lighted when our reality is already skewed by traumatic brain injury. We ask for help, but doctors ignore and minimize us. 

We cannot access testing nor services, because reason for same would have to be acknowledged, and better to ignore than have your name as a provider in the notes exposing this battery at best. My peers are killing themselves because we are discounted in our suffering and actually in many instances treated with overt contempt when trying to find help from doctors and staff.

Below is an outcome that is mine. I have been now identified with damages to my frontal lobes, cerebellum, and temporal lobes by a TBI specialist secondary to electroshock. It is is the medical records. I ask you in rehabilitation medicine to have these conversations with others so we can address this harm and get help to those that desperately need it. Expose this and shine a light as the public is at great risk. You are familiar with our struggles. We are just like any other TBI patient that needs your help and recognition please.



There is a test called the VNG that is used to identify concussions and other brain injuries. It is the in office test similar to the on field test the NFL players now get called the I-PASS. Below are damages recorded in notes by TBI specialist to outcomes of electroshock. Perhaps this test  may be used to identify TBI in ECT patients, as it is used for TBI in the NFL. These below findings around ECT are resulting from VNG testing. Patients are also showing changes on MRI, EEG, neuro/cog testing, and SPECT. 

3.    Mild L ptosis

4.    R hypertropia worse in L lateral gaze

5.    L exophoria

6.    L upper and R lower facial paresis

7.    L roll had tilt

8.    Olfactory recognition impaired bilateral

9.    VA ration horizontal square wave jerks R:2:1 L: down-beat nystagmus 2:1

10.  Saccade testing reveals latencies increased all planes except U/L

11.  Marked cervical substitutions with pursuits in all planes with intrusive saccades worsening in L prusuites

12.  Pursuits downward reveal intorsional glissades

13.  Gait testing reveals mild decrease inR arm swing: with dual tasking, gait becomes slightly wide-based and arm swing slightly decreases.

14.  Finger-nose past pointing R>L

15.  Somatic pinwheel perception diminished L L5

16.  Vestibular head impulse testing: Moderately decreased in LARP plane

17.  Saccadometry: Prosaccade 20 degree : intrusive saccades to the R

18.  Anti saccade 10 degree: 79 percent directional error rate

19.  Nystagmus: High frequency right beat and down beat nystagmus

20.  Central gaze: Head movement, L pstosis and nystagmnus

21.  Horizontal gaze L 24 degree Notable pitch plane head movement

22.  Horizontal gaze R 24 degree: Increased fatigue, decreased stability

23.  Upward gaze 14 degree: Notable pitch plane head movement

24.  Downward gaze 14 degree: Notable pitch polane head movement.

25.  Horizontal optokinetics 25 dps: L optokinetics provoked dysconjugate gaze. Reflex failed with R otokinetics

26.  Horizontal optokinetics with volitional targeting: Worsens

27.  Vertical pursuits 10 degrees: Intrusive saccades with downward pursuits

28.  Random vertical saccades: Upward intrusive saccades, cannot maintain downward gaze

29.  Vertical optokinetics 25 dps: Reflex failed.

30.  Vertical optokinetics with volitional targeting: Worsens

31.  Repeated random horizontal saccades; Latencies increased significantly bilaterally


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