Texas spine surgeon finds fusion success by simply injecting adult stem cells into cages

 
 
Adult Stem Cells – Roses of Texas (written by Biloine Young @ OTW)
Texas docs are at it again! When 37-year-old Dallas firefighter Chris Youngman found he could barely bend down to put on his shoes because of back pain he went to Forest Park Medical Center neurosurgeon Rob Dickerman.
Dickerman fused Youngman’s spine but in doing so he used an established process but with a new twist. Instead of inserting cadaver bone or cutting off a portion of the patient’s hip bone to use, a painful process, he used Youngman’s own stem cells to grow new bone.
The less invasive procedure took p...


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