Lin Liu has visited four patients in total. None of them has been cured by the so-called Xiao Procedure and some were even permanently disabled by the surgeries. Two of the patients are still minors. The other two are 19-years old but they were also minors when they underwent spinal surgeries.

The boy patient in Meishan county could still walk by himself and even climbed the stairs of the hospital building before his surgery, in spite of some kind of deformity in his legs. But after the surgery in September 2007, his legs with parts of nerves cut off started to fester. Two years later, both of his legs had to be amputated at a local hospital of Meishan.

His parents had great hopes before the surgery because the hospital had promised them a success rate of 85%, which means most of the patients could get cured. They trusted the doctors because the doctors were kind and looked very trustful. After the boy was already on the operation bed, the parents were asked to sign a consent form right before the surgery, as if it were just a routine procedure. No explanation was ever offered, so they signed the form without understanding the risk of serious complications at all.