Fat injections in the spine get rid of back pain

US scientists have found a new way of dealing with chronic back pain - to the spine injections of stem cells taken from fat patient. During the 20-minute liposuction can collect up to 40 million stem cells.

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Treatment of chronic Back Pain   by injection of stem the cells being tested in the US Mayo Clinic. Surgeons carried injections cells derived from fat to the damaged vertebral discs, which in most cases cause specific pain. Pick up in the course of 20 minutes liposuction of the abdomen fat contains a large number of stem cells, which are capable of developing into different tissue types.

The authors of this methodology adhere to the theory that injection of stem cells will help to restore the vertebral discs. This technique differs from the accepted methods the treatment of back pain Like physiotherapy and painkillers, as well as surgery on vertebrate drives. Stem cells must not only remove the damaged disc, but not allowed to develop in the future.

In the first stage doctors produce about 100 ml of abdominal fat patient, where the stem cells are extracted. Previously, they are also removed from the bone marrow, but after this painful procedure could be obtained by 5000 60 to 000, at a time after the liposuction doctors is up to 40 million cells.

Preliminary results of tests carried out on animals have shown that the overall disk is improved by 26%, as is in order and the water content in the inner portion thereof. The more water there than better wheels "lubricated" to protect the spine from damage. Now the technique is tested on 100 patients. (READ MORE)

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