Personal testimonial by Colin Martins (32-year-old commercial fisherman) describing chronic back pain beginning around age 25, severe flare at ~28 (bedridden ~3 weeks, pain rated 9–10), long-term partial relief from chiropractic/posture work, then receiving an umbilical-cord-derived stem cell injection in October 2018. He reports noticing improvements within 2–3 weeks, being pain-free for a mountain-biking trip in December (~2–2.5 months post-injection), and an overall 60–80% reduction in pain (from average daily 4–5 down to 0–1). He spent ~$15–20k previously on conservative treatments and says this stem cell treatment was "the best money" he ever spent.
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32 years old.
Commercial fisherman.
October 2018.
About 2–3 weeks.
About 2 to 2.5 months (December 2018).
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Okay, my name's Colin Martins and oh man, I'm gonna restart this video and I'm 32 and I'm a commercial fisherman. So yeah, right there tells you a little bit. I've done a lot of hard work. I started having back issues when I was probably 25 is when I started feeling it. And probably at 28 was my worst. I remember being bedridden for about three weeks and my ex wife had to take me to a chiropractic clinic laying down in the back of a truck in California. So worst pain I've ever felt. Nine or ten. Yeah. So that's kind of my history. And then after that I did a lot of chiropractic and posture work. I'm going to sit straight up now. And that helped out quite a bit. But it never really. The pain never really went away. And so I did that for a number of years and I just kind of injured myself and re. Injured myself and then finally decided to start looking into other means like the chiropractic massage. It just wasn't doing anything. I mean it was helping, but it wasn't healing anything and couldn't really lift over 40 or 50 pounds. And I started working out while I was looking for this stuff and I actually did get up to some really good numbers in the hundreds, but I would, you know, I'd injure myself a lot. And so basically I started looking for solution and you know, and what I came up with was I heard from a friend about stem cells, how they're using them for cancer. And I was like, you know what? I want to put stem cells in my body. And so I researched the clinic and got a hold of Nature Cures Clinic and it just seemed to be the best deal. And they. I was looking for the umbilical cord stem cells. This just an injection. I did not want to extract my own stem cells out of my hip to put my back. It just sounded like a bad deal to me. And so then I went with them and you know, so I got the stem cell injection in October of 2018. Within probably two months it was. I started really noticing the effects. It didn't. So like I probably had an average pain about a four daily, four to five. And after I got the injection probably three weeks, two, three weeks, I started noticing a change. It was really small and it'd be. I'd be in a little less pain that week than I was the previous week. And that has just continued actually. And then what was. It was in December, I went on a mountain Biking trip. And so that was about two, two and a half months after the stem cell injections and I had no pain. I mean, it was great. I did a lot of riding and the last time I rode was about a year before that. And I had constant pain the whole time. I did it anyway. You know, you want to live your life and have fun. And so that was, that was great. As of now, I still have a little bit of pain. It goes from like a zero to a one. Probably more pain when it's. Things are, you know, when they're swelling. But it's. I would have to say it's 60, it's 60 to 80% less than it was before I got the injection. Like I couldn't like it work. So I fish in the summer and I have a desk job the rest of the year because I had to, because I couldn't, you know, I couldn't lift 140 pound crab pots anymore. So I could not walk down the hallway in a brisk walk without hurting my back. And now I don't even notice. I walk fast all the time, so that's pretty sweet. As far as like money, oh God, I spent a lot of money on my body. I probably spent 15 to 20 thousand dollars in chiropractic massage and all that in the last two years. And you know, I mean, I help my posture and all that, but I'm seeing some slight permanent changes, but nothing like what I got from this. I'd probably categorize the money I spent. This treatment is the best money I've ever spent in my entire life so far. Like, yeah, I was at the point where I was looking at surgery. I was looking at absolutely anything to heal. I wanted to heal naturally. And I don't know if you would consider injecting someone else's stem cells in your body. Natural. But it gave my body the ability to heal itself, which to me was like a home run as far as what I wanted. Like, I want to go mountain biking, I want to go hiking, I want to do all those things and I don't want to feel any pain. So I think in conjunction, if you combine like stem cells with working out, with eating right, you know, all the things you just, it just gives you, gives your body the ability to heal what normally will not heal. I've had several doctors tell me that my discs will never heal. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you're a doctor. I didn't go to school for eight years, but then I found some doctors that say, yeah, they can make that heal. And also, this is an injection, and it's your body that makes it healing. I was like, yeah, sign me up. So, you know, that's. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.
