{"id":1026,"date":"2013-06-14T09:48:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T09:48:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T10:50:22","slug":"stem-cells-being-used-to-cure-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/2013\/06\/stem-cells-being-used-to-cure-back-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem cells being used to cure back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most cases of back pain are caused by problems with disks – the cushions between bones of the spine. Most treatments are not very successful, but what if you could rejuvenate a disk with your own stem cells?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johna Lindell has had disk problems for several years. After her daughter, Abby was born, things got worse.<\/p>\n

“That was very frustrating, because I wasn’t able to carry her,” she said. “Even as an eight-pound infant, I wasn’t able to carry her for a long time in a carrier or anything like that.”<\/p>\n

Johna’s husband is Buffalo Bills’ kicker Rian Lindell. That’s how she met Dr. Andrew Cappuccino, who had treated Kevin Everett for his spine injury<\/a>. Dr. Cappuccino noted a typical abnormality on her MRO scan. Normal disks look white, because they contain water.<\/p>\n

“You can see that those three disks have turned black, dark. They’ve lost their water content, so they are losing their ability to be a shock absorber, and they’re beginning to bulge out into the spinal canal,” Dr. Cappuccino explained.<\/p>\n

He’s been helping develop a technique of removing a patient’s stem cells from the bone marrow and injecting them into damaged disks. Needles were used to inject stem cells into Johna’s discs.<\/p>\n

“The needles were removed, band-aids were placed, she went to the recovery room and an hour and 15 minutes later, she was on her way home,” Dr. Cappuccino said.<\/p>\n

That was only nine days ago, but there’s been daily improvement.<\/p>\n

Johna said, “I feel better every day when I get up out of bed and I notice that I’m happier, because I can get up and I can function and I can go in and get my daughter and I can get her ready and I’m not shuddering with pain.”<\/p>\n

It will take months before the full benefit is achieved. Many patients have done very well.<\/p>\n

Dr. Cappuccino said, “We see statistically significant decreases, almost back to the normal range, in patients that have had disabling pain for years.”<\/p>\n

“I’m happy to be part of something that I really think is going to be bigger in the future,” Johna said.<\/p>\n

This procedure is done all in one treatment. The bone marrow is removed; the stem cells are separated, and then injected into the disks. It’s not right for everyone, and it isn’t covered by insurance<\/a>. But if the long-term outcomes live up to Dr. Cappuccino’s expectations, it will probably become a very popular treatment.<\/p>\n

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Most cases of back pain are caused by problems with disks – the cushions between bones of the spine. Most treatments are not very successful, but what if you could rejuvenate a disk with your own stem cells? Johna Lindell has had disk problems for several years. After her daughter, Abby was born, things got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}