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[mcferguson]

Here is an article in Portuguese about a man who recovered walking and bowel and bladder function after a stem-cell treatment in Brazil. He was a complete, injured for 9 years.

http://g1.globo.com/...o-na-bahia.html

Here is the translation into English:

Transplantation of bone marrow stem cell held last April 14 in Salvador, brings results that motivate doctors. A military police officer of 47 years, who declined to be identified, a paraplegic after an accident and spent the last nine years in a wheelchair. After undergoing treatment, he returned to move the legs.
The police made no movement from the waist down. He also had improvement in muscle that controls the flow of urine and feces and no longer needs diapers and other equipment. The hope of returning to a normal life has never been greater.
"Before I had a trunk that was alive and legs that did not respond. Now I realize that they are alive, they belong to me and depends on me for what they agree, "he says.
Now the police can already move your knees up, a feat for anyone who has the muscles atrophied from disuse. Another shows the impressive recovery of leg strength is an exercise, which still requires balance. For the physiotherapy team on the most amazing recovery of the patient is that he is pedaling.
For a patient to undergo a stem cell transplant, a survey was conducted for five years before being used in humans, the technique has shown good results in animals.
In treatment, doctors use mesenchymal stem cells, which have greater capacity to develop into multiple tissue types. They are taken from the hip bone from the patient and injected directly into the place where the column was achieved. The pioneering technique was developed by scientists at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and the St. Raphael Hospital, where one of the most modern cell therapy centers in the country. Researchers are amazed by the rapid evolution of the patient.
"Basically in a week he began to have clinical outcomes, an improvement in sensitivity, an improvement in sitting posture and this patient has been evolving," says Marcus Vinicius Mendonca, neurosurgeon.
But doctors believe early to say whether he and 19 other people with the same problem will also receive stem cells will again walk normally Ricardo Ribeiro, coordinator of the program.
"This patient may have still other improvements and other improvements may be larger or the same or worse. So we have to wait."
For now the police are excited by early results and make plans. "I always liked the beach, go to the beach, be able to take a swim in the sea without anyone hold you, right? Could go to a stadium, I always liked football, to play a football, go shopping, do what I always did, "wait.

The article was originally posted on CareCure.

[paul1404]

And don't forget to leave Santa a drink out this Xmas

[Ferreira]

 paul1404, on 01 November 2011 - 05:36 PM, said:

And don't forget to leave Santa a drink out this Xmas

If he brings me the bike he promissed 20 years ago....

[Charlie-boi]

Look I've been very involved with stem cells inc! It's based I'n Zurich and is at the fore front of stem cell therapy! It is completely genuine and well funded by American companies using fetal stem cells! They are just now doing human trials! They told me it would be a miracle if a complete could walk from their trials! These guys have the best tec etc ect so I find these types of stories so hard to believe and as everyone knows its usually money makeing schemes where a corporation like stem cells Inc is free with it's intrest purely I'n finding a cure as such! Please do your homework peeps and only trust the genuine companies

[Quad65]

A fool and his monkey are soon partners.

[Pete Anderson]

If its too good to be true, it probably is.

Edited by Pete Anderson, 07 November 2011 - 06:03 PM.