...the international community needs to recognize that Chinese researchers are making important contributions to the science of this field [regenerative medicine], and China should be included in international discourses on standards and regulations.
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Dominique S. McMahon, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health (MRC)
Michelle’s life changed one morning 3 years ago when she was involved in a serious car accident. She said that “on august 9th, 2007, I was going to work and a women ran a red light and T-boned me. I think her car flipped over mine after the impact. I was then air lifted to the Loma Linda Medical Center. I was in the ICU for surgery initially.
“I was perfectly healthy before this accident. I think I had seven surgeries after it. My aorta was just hanging on by a thread. I am very grateful for the physicians at Loma Linda for saving my life.
“Then I participated in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy. But they cut me off, they said that this was the best I was going to get. And I just did not believe that.”
After learning about stem cell treatment in China, Michelle quickly came for treatment in December 2009. She returned for another round of treatments in November 2010.
Treatment in China
Michelle received adult stem cell injections along with acupuncture, physical therapy and occupational therapy.
Condition After Treatment
While at the hospital for her first round of treatment, Michelle began to see changes in her condition. A welcome event for a spinal cord injury patient regaining control of their body, she said that during the first treatment in China “I urinated on myself and that had never happened before. A test for my bladder had been done before we went to China. I couldn’t release any urine or any water or anything like that.
“After stem cells the first time, I went back to the States and had the same test repeated, and I could urinate. I totally let loose all of the urine. And they were stunned, they couldn’t believe it. And now we are in the process of trying to train my bladder to let me know when I need to release.”
There were some other changes that occurred gradually only after she had returned home. She found that “in my back area I now have feeling in the T9-T10 area. I have consistent tingling going on in my legs and now in my stomach area as well. That never happened prior to coming to China. I didn’t have any tingling sensations.
“But the progression of feeling in my back, that was a gradual thing. They told us that that it would take between 3 and 6 months and that definitely was the case.
“And a couple of times when I was in physical therapy in the US, in August, my left toe moved a little bit. And in September, I got a little flicker of movement with my right toe. So I was pretty excited about that. I was pretty jazzed about coming back here for a second time.”
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