Posted on 05/29/2012 5:45:45 AM PDT by GrootheWanderer
By the time Dr. Spencer Misner had carved away the dead and diseased flesh from Bobby Rice’s right foot last year, little remained other than bones and tendons.
“I couldn’t believe it. It didn’t look real. It looked like something out of a movie,” recalled Rice, a Whitfield County resident.
Today, the ankle has almost completely healed. It looks like Rice had simply scraped it. And Rice’s foot has largely healed, too. Misner credits cutting-edge stem cell treatments for saving Rice’s foot and leg.
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We are moving in that direction.
Locally and nationally people are having their stem cells modified to be shot back into their joints to repair them.
I am waiting for insurance to pick it up so I can have my hip and knee done the right way, no hardware.
A friend just had a stem cell injection to smooth out her facial lines, better than botox and lasts one year.
We are on the cusp of some pretty miraculous times.
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