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Kansas Paraplegic Traveling To Germany For Stem Cell Treatments

by paulgochs on October 25th, 2009

A Pittsburg, Kansas, man paralyzed from the waist down after a 2008 car crash, is trying to raise $16,000 to travel to Germany for stem cell treatments. Friends and family are helping 26-year-old wheelchair-bound Justin Pryor with a benefit dinner. Justin and his father will travel to Köln, Germany’s XCell clinic for the scientifically unproven procedure, which involves extraction of a patient’s own bone marrow stem cells and re-injection into the spinal fluid. Although the XCell center offers anecdotal evidence of some physical improvement with the procedures – e.g., regaining “sensation” in the limbs – it does not claim that anyone treated with stem cells at its clinic has ever regained the ability to walk.

By Brett Dalton, “Local man to receive stem cell therapy”, The Pittsburg (Ks.) Morning Sun, October 24, 2009, © 2009 GateHouse Media, Inc.

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  1. Honey Potter permalink

    Good luck to Justin! But it’s obvious that XCell collects more than bone marrow stem cells from its patients. It collects oodles of their hard-earned money. Try to find on their Web site any evidence whatsoever that paraplegics or quadriplegics can walk after their bogus treatments. You won’t find any. Just hopeful little stories from patients who desperately want to see something from their effort and wasted money. “Sensation” in their legs? For $16,000? And now you’ve got this new group of fringe doctors in the U.S. drooling to get their hands on patients’ cash. It’s sickening, absolutely sickening. Not one of those physicians has any knowledge of, or experience with, stem cell research or therapeutics. Anyway, good luck, Justin. Enjoy Germany. I hear it’s lovely at this time of the year.