Napoli. The desire not to give up, to go on despite the physical and psychological suffering. Filomena never stopped fighting for a single day lamberti since, one night ten years ago, her ex-husband poured acid on her head, face, hands and neckline. A lightning-fast gesture that left indelible scars on the woman from Salerno.
And, if for the internal ones, perhaps, only time will be able to alleviate the pain, for those on the body, Filomena Lamberti has had the opportunity to access the therapy with Biodermogenesi methodology that is able to restore sensitivity to the skin. "It is others who notice the change in my face.
What I feel is the elasticity starting from the neck. I chew better, I open my mouth more”, says Lamberti together with Anna Maria Minichino, surgeon and head of dermo-aesthetics at the Brunetti Dermatological Centre in Salerno, and Maurizio Busoni, researcher and head of the project that provides this treatment free of charge to women who are victims of violence.
“You can’t go back to how you were before,” says Lamberti, “but just having relief from skin that doesn’t pull everywhere is a great thing. At least, not suffering from this. And having recovered a minimum of sensitivity.” Each therapy session lasts twenty-five minutes and “isn’t painful, in fact it’s relaxing,” emphasizes Lamberti, whose treatments are part of the RigenerDerma project, which aims to treat 500 healthy people burdened by facial scars who could not afford such therapy financially.
The project involved the University of Verona, Telefono Rosa and Women for women by Donatella Gimigliano. “I treated Mrs. Filomena for twelve sessions with the application of the method for 25/30 minutes treating the face and neck. We created that oxygenation of the skin, through the vacuum, electromagnetic waves and a very light electrical stimulation”, explains Minichino.
“We have seen that the technology applied to chemical burn scars allows for a significant improvement in the skin structure,” observes Busoni, clarifying that, “since these are degenerative scars, if we had not intervened, he would have increasingly reduced the mobility of his neck and would have had increasing difficulty in articulating his voice and chewing.”
For Filomena Lamberti, “when you depend economically on your partner, it is very difficult to leave them. I am talking about lived history. Young people can improve this culture a lot, they will be the couples of the future, the parents of the future. We must ensure that their children can grow up in a more loving society and always base the relationship on respect because, for me, respect closes the door to violence”. “I am lucky not to be part of the long list of women killed – she says – the term femicide is not liked. Femicide only because it is a woman who is killed. That is still murder”.
Article published on 28 June 2022 - 15:35
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