Therapy Related blog
Running (or for the majority of the population, jogging) as a form of exercise puts an extreme amount of force on joints and muscles. With the entire body working as one to effectively perform the running motion, all muscles are susceptible to injury. Specifically, the quadriceps, hamstrings, gluteals, hip flexors, and calf muscles are the primary muscles used and the most prone to pulls or tears. Proper warm up
Stem cells play a vital role in making new body parts and saving lives. Recent ground-breaking work in Sweden at the University of Gothenburg replaced a blocked blood vessel in a ten year old child using the first vein grown from the patients own stem cells. This breakthrough has important implications for stem cell-based grafts for heart and dialysis patients who need replacement blood vessels. Many replacement surgeries risk
The skin is the largest organ in the human body and its primary natural shield against germs and viruses. Skin that is damaged through major burn trauma is a life threatening condition. Victims of major burn trauma have had one traditional form of treatment “ skin grafts -which take weeks to grow in a lab and, more importantly, involve a high risk of infection because the epidermis and dermis
People have the choice of being an organ donor once they pass on. With their prior consent, their organs can be used for transplants, where demand far surpasses the actual supply, crystalizing the critical need and purpose for organ donors. If organs from the deceased can be used with permission to save lives, why can stem cells? Recent discoveries have been made regarding the presence of functioning stem cells
One of the main problems seen in Stem Cell Therapies is obtaining the multitude of adult stem cells required for therapeutic application; similarly, it is difficult to acquire a large enough quantity of the cells to sustain research purposes. This problem, however, has been answered. At the University of Calgary, two professors have developed a way to produce stem cells extremely efficiently. The revolutionary apparatus is a bioreactor that
The universal symbol of love, the heart is the most powerful and important organ in the human body, beating an average of 100,000 times per day, pumping 2,000 gallons of blood through our organs, body parts, and 72 trillion cells. Damage to heart muscles, as you can imagine, is permanent, irreparable, and even life threatening. Remarkably, recent research has been done on the use of adult stem cells as
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