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Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy refers to a congenital disorder which typically involves brain damage before or during a baby's birth, which often affects muscle tone, mobility and the ability to move in a coordinated and purposeful way. Those afflicted with CP may also have vision, hearing, and speech problems, as well as learning disabilities. Standard treatments are aimed at improving quality of life and include a variety of treatments and therapies such as medications that reduce spasticity, surgery to repair dislocated hips and curvature of the spine, speech therapy, and such.

Can the use of adult (non-embryonic) stem cells impact CP? Definitely! Consider this:
Beginning around 2008 Duke University pediatric neurology researchers began treating cerebral palsy in children using cord blood. One such story is reflected in this videotaped account: View it here!

Medical College of Georgia researchers have done work on animal models of CP (rats) using cord blood stem cells, and is now preparing to carry out a clinical study involving forty (40) children with CP: View the study here!

But at least five (5) years before either Duke or the Medical College of Georgia embarked on their work, children and infants with CP were being treated with pure cord blood stem cells in Mexico by a clinic that retains the scientific and medical experts at StemCell.MD to help guide and shape the nature and evolution of its research-oriented clinical work. This pioneering use of human umbilical cord stem cells was actually formalized as a pilot study carried out during 2004, the results of which were published in the journal Medical Hypotheses & Research 3: 679-686. This study involved eight children and showed clinically and statistically significant responses in many areas of bodily function.

In addition, scores of case histories have accrued that underscore what was seen in the pilot study. Among them are at least five (5) children with "cortical blindness" due to optic nerve hypoplasia experienced notable improvement in the first 3-6 months following their cord blood stem cell treatments in Mexico. One of these children, Adam Susser, has had his remarkable story told many times over in various newspaper articles and television news accounts such as this one. To-date approximately eight (8) of ten (10) children with CP treated with pure cord blood stem cells* have demonstrated noteworthy improvements and gains in function according to their parents or guardians and many of their pediatricians.