Doctors at a hospital here have claimed they successfully used stem cell therapy to enable a 25-year-old man, who injured his spinal cord in a fall in July last year, to walk normally again.
This is the first time that Indian doctors have resorted to stem cell therapy to cure spinal cord problems, said J S Rajkumar, chief surgeon of the corporate Lifeline multi- speciality hospital.
Akbar Ali, who was employed by a construction company in Abu Dhabi, was injured when he fell from the fourth floor of a building being built by the firm. When he was admitted to a hospital in Abu Dhabi, a plate was fitted to treat his spinal fracture, but he could not stand up on his own. Ali was brought here by his parents in a wheelchair and admitted to the Lifeline hospital.
Its doctors, in collaboration with the Indo-Japanese joint venture Nichi In Centre For Regenerative Medicine (NCRA), used autologous or “own body” stem therapy in December 2006 to treat Ali who started walking on his own, Rajkumar told reporters today.
Dear Sir,
my fiance has got spinal cord injury at c5 and c6 level we r trining for the stem cell theraphy but we are confussed so please sugest us what to do and money is also problem for us please sugest for a right decesion
Thanks
Dakshata
dear sir.
i am suffring from spinal cord injry at D10 AND D11 vertibre muliple schlorosis persist and waiting and want to take stem cell transplanation kindely take me for the stem cell transplantation for the trial in spinal injry.
wating for ur kind reply,
thanks,
regards,
sharad pathak
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