Stem Cell Therapy After Spinal Cord Injury #spinalinjury #short

I had a patient come in. He was in his 80s, and he had had a spinal cord injury from a car accident. This injury was so devastating, he couldn't really beat himself and he couldn't walk at all. And he came in to get stem cell treatment with his family. And I advised him that this is not going to work. The animal study showed that the longer you were out from the injury, the less likely it was to work. And he went from living in a nursing home to not walking, to walking with crutches or a walker, unassisted by other human beings, to being discharged from the nurs, to living back at home, to being back involved with his business. I think doctors tend to say, well, you're better off, since I can't guarantee the results of this intervention, maybe you're better off not doing it. And maybe the patient should have the main choice in that.