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Can anyone who has contact details for Jessy please send him this link, I would love to see him go down to Panama and try this treatment. Not wanting to give any false hope, but if I had the same injury I would want to try anything available to me.
Joe and the Doctor talk about one of the patients here who made a full recovery:
https://www.cellmedicine.com/stem-cell-therapy-spinal-cord-injury-patient-video-juan-carlos-murillo/
Joe and the Doctor talk about one of the patients here who made a full recovery:
https://www.cellmedicine.com/stem-cell-therapy-spinal-cord-injury-patient-video-juan-carlos-murillo/
I was interested for 2 reasons aside from the obvious of trying to get better. 1 was the language barrier wasn't going to be an issue and 2 was that they have American doctors. Nothing against people that have gone to China or elsewhere for treatments but for me personally I would feel more comfortable in an environment that is similar to my current surroundings.
I haven't clicked the link or watched the video yet but will later on today.
Fun little fact Panama is in the same time zone as Ontario where I live. Would make it easy for me to talk to family.
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The down side, besides the cost, is that it is still risky in the broad sense. It's a very new treatment and done incorrectly, it can be harmful. So it requires people to be more diligent about where they go and what doctor they use. There are doctors around the world who really know what they are doing, but it's not like getting your collarbone plated where pretty much any ortho surgeon you go to can do it.
The possibilities though are very exciting.
Bottom line: there's danger in any medical intervention. You could get an infection, and there have been cases of tumors growing post surgery. Recently, multiple people were blinded by such a treatment. Note that this last one happened in Florida, so this type of treatment/injury can happen here too.
I'd suggest reading and thinking about this free PDF. This was put together by the professional international stem cell community over our collective concern about what's been going on. The FDA believes these clinics are illegal but hasn't had the bandwidth to take them all down. I helped one in NYC that had a technical problem and I can promise you I would never let them inject anything into my body. Having said that, it doesn't mean that the general approach doesn't work at all. But, it's certainly no miracle cure, comes at a great cost financially, and could result in further injury.
I am happy to try to help my moto brothers figure out the science. I've been riding for 42 years and doing science for 25. The two have pretty much dominated my life.
Like I said it's awesome that people care and it's obvious that they mean well but it's just you can only hear about so many cures that don't really work out to be before it starts to actually make you feel like a cure is further away
I couldn't agree more, Shawn142. Even he says they start at 6 months because 98% do not recover: maybe this man is one of the two out of hundred that do recover, and it's not a miracle cure at all.
I appreciate that he's doing clinical trials. That's more than most of his peers. We'll have to see the results of a Phase II before you could conclude much. I am personally very skeptical, but I'd like to be wrong.
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