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PRP INJECTIONS: A GO-TO TREATMENT FOR PLANTAR FASCIITIS

By |2018-09-27T13:50:15-04:00July 24th, 2017|blog|

The first time you heard the term "plantar fasciitis" is probably when one of the lazy kids in your grade seven Phys-Ed class was giving their daily excuse to avoid running laps. Or, it's from our grandparents, complete with quadruple-wide New Balance shoes with built-in inserts, just to walk from the living room to the kitchen. But even Hall-of-Fame calibre athletes like MLB slugger Albert Pujols, NBA point god Jason Kidd, and top-five all-time QB Peyton Manning, have succumbed to the debilitating wrath of plantar fasciitis symptoms. So, it's not just unwilling gym-class participants or your physically-deteriorating grandparents who are agonizing over the chronic foot condition. Thankfully, a study funded by Arthrex provides evidence that PRP injections for plantar fasciitis could be the first-line solution to relieve and heal your symptoms. A REAL PAIN IN THE [...]

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CAN STEM CELL REGENERATION RESTORE BEAUTY?

By |2018-09-27T13:52:14-04:00July 18th, 2017|blog|

It's the age-old question: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the studliest of them all?" Vanity is a fact of life. We avoid delicious food, spend hundreds of dollars on skin care products, partake in torturous fitness regimes, and will even surgically alter our bodies to look the way we want. PRP and stem cell treatments are proven to utilize our own blood and fat to regenerate our bodies from injuries such as meniscal tears. So, is it a stretch for these advanced healing properties to make us really, really ridiculously good looking? DON'T HATE ME BECAUSE MY CULTURED CELLS ARE BEAUTIFUL Formulators are attempting to encourage skin cells into action with byproducts of the following cultured cells: Cytokines and chemokines, which regulate inflammatory responses Growth factors which stimulate the rapid growth of cells Research [...]

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SUPER-SPEED STEM CELLS IN OUTER SPACE

By |2018-09-27T13:54:30-04:00July 11th, 2017|blog|

If you suggested that one day, stem cells would have potential applications from creating spinach human hearts to curing aggressive baldness, you'd probably be labeled as a crazy person, like those Y2K doomsayers or Frasier fans. While it seems these stem cell milestones get more improbable from clinical trial to clinical trial, this latest stem cell advancement is truly out of this world. 2017: A SPACE ODYSSEY Stem cell researchers are blasting stem cells off to the International Space System in order to see if microgravity can encourage the cells to proliferate faster. In other words, scientists are sending stem cells to space to see if they can increase the rate stem cells can multiply. Rapidly development of stem cells is thought to be one of the final barriers impeding new stem cell treatments for stroke, and other health [...]

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3 WAYS STEM CELL THERAPY AND PRP CAN REGENERATE YOUR LOVE LIFE

By |2018-09-27T13:58:37-04:00July 5th, 2017|blog|

Look, we've all been in stagnant relationships. "Romantic" dinners of pepperoni sticks and French fries, and your time in the bedroom being filled with Youtube, Buzzfeed, and Netflix as opposed to anything resembling intimacy. You don't necessarily need relationship counselling to get you back on the proverbial saddle. While both PRP and stem cell research have been making waves in the sports medicine, orthopedics, dentistry, and cardiac industries for some time, Platelet Rich Plasma injections are now being used to increase sexual performance and vitality for both men and women. With that, here are three ways stem cell treatments and PRP injections can not only regenerate your body, but regenerate your love life: HIS ENHANCEMENT: Erectile dysfunction medications have been in the main stream for years. Accompanied by savvy marketing and memorable commercials promising restored sexual [...]

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COULD BOBBY ORR’S LEGENDARY CAREER HAVE BEEN SAVED BY STEM CELL TREATMENT?

By |2018-09-30T10:05:23-04:00June 28th, 2017|blog|

Bobby Orr is heralded as the best defenceman in the National Hockey League's history, but due to a ravaged knee, he only played in 12 NHL seasons - and only 26 games in his final three years. It's left hockey's most diehard fans with the lingering question of, "what if Bobby Orr had access to modern medicine?" But we'll take this debate deeper: what if he had access to stem cell regeneration therapy? HOW THE MEDICINE OF YESTERYEAR LET BOBBY ORR DOWN Orr's speed and puck carrying revolutionized his position. He set multiple records for points scored by a defenseman. In a grittier, more punishing era of hockey, he was constantly being hit, and the wear-and-tear plus traumatic injuries to his knee put Orr under the knife 12 separate times in his career. In the 60s and [...]

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CREATING A BEATING, HUMAN HEART…FROM SPINACH

By |2018-09-27T14:06:12-04:00June 21st, 2017|blog|

We all know vegetables are good for you. That's right, your parents weren't lying to you all those years (about nutrition anyway). But they probably didn't think veggies could be beneficial to you in this fashion. Giving new meaning to the cliché, 'You are what you eat', scientists have discovered a method of building working human heart muscle...from spinach greens. They hope to solve the never-ending dilemma of repairing damaged organs, revitalizing them with Popeye-like fortitude. TISSUE ENGINEERING 101 The study, published in full detail in the journal Biomaterials, illustrates the research team's method of 'growing' a vascular system, which has been a notorious roadblock of the tissue engineering field for years. Creating sections of human tissue in a lab setting isn't anything new. Scientists are able to replicate basic tissues with techniques like 3D-printing, but have yet [...]

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HEALING BROKEN BONES VIA STEM CELL TREATMENTS

By |2018-09-27T14:08:08-04:00June 14th, 2017|blog|

Dan Gazit, a researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, has developed an experimental procedure that combines stem cells, gene therapy, and ultrasound to heal large bone breaks in lab animals. SO? I BROKE A BONE WHEN I WAS A KID AND I WAS FINE. That's because your broken bone was a simple fracture. Simple fractures are usually able to repair themselves with time and a cast. Severe fractures, on the other hand, can leave large gaps in bones that cannot be healed. Right now, the standard treatment for severe fractures is surgical bone grafting an invasive procedure that involves taking bone from the pelvis and transplanting it elsewhere. This process is painful and carries the risk of infection and rejection. I DON'T LIKE THE SOUND OF SURGICAL BONE GRAFTS. TELL ME MORE [...]

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CAN STEM CELLS BRING BACK THE DEAD?

By |2018-09-30T10:07:28-04:00June 5th, 2017|blog|

The next chapter of stem cell research? Bringing back the dead. When one considers "bringing someone back from the dead", it conjures macabre images of Zombies and Frankenstein. That ghoulish diction isn't really synonymous with a potential ground-breaking discovery in stem cell research, but a life sciences company named Bioquark, Inc. is embarking upon studies to bring brain dead patients back to life. THE SCIENCE OF STEM CELL RESURRECTION How is Bioquark leveraging cells in hopes of playing God? Isolating stem cells taken from a patient's fat or blood, an then combined with a peptide formula, the mixture is injected into the spinal cord - which if successful, would nurture the growth of new neurons. Following the stem cell injections, a strict routine of nerve stimulation and laser therapy will be implemented over a [...]

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LAB-GROWN BLOOD STEM CELLS MAY MEAN ENDLESS BLOOD SUPPLY

By |2018-11-08T17:34:39-05:00May 24th, 2017|blog|

Do-gooders who hate needles and vampires rejoice: scientists have created blood stem cells in a lab for the first time. This means that someday soon, we may have an endless supply of blood and their components (red blood cells, platelets, and plasma). WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH ALL THIS BLOOD? Blood is important. It's used to treat blood disorders and diseases such as leukemia. It's used in standard and emergency surgery. It's used to treat blood loss after childbirth. Unfortunately, blood banks often have difficulties maintaining three-day blood supplies the demand far outweighs the supply. Lab-made blood eliminates the risk of donor rejection and ensures there's an ample supply for emergencies and research. This supply would be more reliable than the blood donor system, and would be guaranteed disease-free. SO HOW DO [...]

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ARE STEM CELLS THE CURE FOR BALDNESS?

By |2018-09-27T14:14:14-04:00May 17th, 2017|blog|

Thinning hair? You're not alone. Hair loss, aka alopecia, affects millions worldwide. In the U.S. more than 40 million men and 20 million women suffer from hereditary hair loss, and about 70% of men and 40% of women experience hair thinning as they age. WHY'S THIS HAPPENING TO ME? Hereditary hair loss occurs when hair follicles shrink. Hair follicles are sheaths of cells that surround the roots of our hair. Hair grows out of a follicle for 4 years. Follicles then hibernate and shed the hair. After a few months, they wake up and the cycle starts again. In hereditary hair loss, this growth cycle is shortened. Each cycle produces shorter, thinner, and less visible hair. Eventually follicles stop growing hair altogether. WHAT'S THE CURE, DOC? Pluripotent stem cells, the cells with the ability to [...]

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