More and more people all around the world are finding freedom from a number of diseases and other health conditions due to the success of adult stem cell treatments. Lives are being changed forever and a renewed sense of hope has fallen over thousands of afflicted individuals everywhere. However, the success of these treatments, which far surpasses that of embryonic stem cell research, has been shaded by popular media.
Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
One of the most devastating debilitations is a spinal cord injury. Often times, the result is some form of paralysis, if not death. In one case, a teenager from Texas in the United States was involved in an automobile accident the rendered her paralyzed from the neck down. Doctor after doctor told her she would never walk again.
Spinal Cord
Based on the advice of a number of different spinal cord injury specialists, it seemed that stem cell treatments were the best option. A procedure called olfactory mucosa transplantation was performed by taking stem cells from the nasal region and transplanting them into the site of the injury.
After resuming life and continuing with therapy, an MRI was conducted on the young girl. The test showed that seventy percent of the injury had been repaired. In just six months, the girl gain feeling in her abdomen. Within three years, she had agility in her upper body and could stand for extended periods using a walker. Soon, she was walking with minimal assistance.
Repairing Heart Tissue
Recently, stem cell treatments have shown great promise in patients who have suffered heart failure or heart attacks. A study was conducted in 2003 on twenty-eight heart attack patients by transplanting their own cells into their arteries.
All but two of the patients show elevated levels of heart-pumping ability by almost five percent. Within only four months following the stem cell treatments, the dead tissue around the patients’ hearts had been reduced by as much as twenty percent on average.
The List Continues To Grow
Spinal injuries and heart attacks are not the only areas where stem cell treatments have shown incredible promise. Stem cell success stories also exist involving patients who were treated for the following:
• Blindness, corneal degeneration and additional ocular disorders through a procedure called limbal stem cell transplantation
• Autoimmune disease
• Diabetes, with hundreds of patients putting away their insulin needles for more than a year thanks to cells harvested from cadavers
• Lupus
• Crohn’s disease, with patients in remission for more than a year
• Multiple sclerosis
• Behcet disease, resulting in total remission two years later
• Parkinson’s disease
• Anemia
• Cancer
• Immune deficiencies
• A number of other diseases, with more cures being discovered all the time
Some people may tell you that stem cell treatments work miracles, while others will tell you that they are morally wrong. Yet, every day more and more medical breakthroughs are being made that cannot be denied for much longer.
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