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 place in the operating room where Dickerman extracted stem cells from his patient’s hip with a long needle. After running the cells though a centrifuge, a process that took only a few minutes, Dickerman mixed them into a putty-like material and stuffed it into spacers which he then inserted between the degenerating discs
According to Dickerman, it is that cell mixture that turns into bone. “Now we don't need to take a chunk of your hip," Dickerman said.
With technology, we can pull the bone marrow directly from the hip, concentrate it to get more stem cells, put it inside of a cage to hold it, t...
