Stem cell based treatments for spinal cord injury sci the spinal cord is a long fragile tube like nervous structure that connects the brain with peripheral nerves.
Stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury in germany.
The treatment program for spinal cord injury involves systemic iv paraspinal and cerebral spinal fluid csf administration of passage 1 cord stem cells for maximum clinical benefit.
Video documentation of stem cell therapy patient who received stem cell treatments at the one of a1 medical centers for spinal cord injury.
Damage to the spinal cord by trauma or other means consequently results in severe motor and sensory deficits that usually lead to the inability to move and feel.
100 300 million cells administered over a 10 14 day period depending on the severity of your condition and budget.
And one promising branch of current medical research is in the direction of stem cell therapy.
We are the only academic center in germany that is uniquely dedicated to the treatment and research of spinal cord injury and its consequences as well as teaching in this specialty.
Stemcells and neuralstem are pure play neural stem cell companies were the result of the treatment stemcells has initiated its phase ii proof of concept study which will include cervical spinal cord injury patients grade a b or c with minimum.
The spinal cord conveys signals from the brain to the rest of the body and spinal cord injury often leads to a degree of paralysis as some nerve fibers become transected and others while intact.
The spinal cord injury center at heidelberg university hospital is one of a kind in germany.