Friday, April 22, 2011

Stem cells key to the magic athletes

Stem cell banks provide rehabilitation tendons, ligaments, muscles and cartilage
New York: Bill Binington *

Huge jump in the treatment of professional and amateur athletes may become like science fiction, but it can change sports medicine. He stated some doctors and researchers that in the next few years will be possible to use stem cells from the primitive umbilical cord blood for children for the development of knee ligament or elbow, leading to the emergence of therapeutic means will be at the forefront of the reform of sports injuries.
A number of sports agents in the provision of advice to their clients regarding the storage of stem cells from their children or from tissue taken from their bodies as collateral against sports injuries that can end their careers early. Blood banks and promote the benefits of stem cell therapy using stem cells for treatment and rehabilitation of the practical tendons, ligaments, muscles and cartilage. Except that there is still some skeptics in the medical community who are asking when will be available such technology, but enthusiasts say that the time soon became.

Said Dr. Scott Rodeo, a specialist Orthopaedic Surgery and the world at a hospital in Manhattan for Special Surgery, «is not fanciful. Probably will not be in the next year, but three to five years is not unreasonable ».

Dr. Rodeo and March of those techniques in operations on the laboratory rat, which means that will be useful when the restructuring of the ligaments of the knee and rotating the shoulder muscle. A disease of the regular sports difficult for surgeons because the body usually does not handle himself or restore tissue after operations.

Said Dr. Rodeo «in each case, the stem cells have some benefits in contributing to the revitalization of tissue». According to some scientists that the time has now come for the Protection of sporting talent and even children.

Johnny, "said Dr. Hayward, Director, Center for stem cell research,« If you have a child is characterized by an extraordinary sports talent at the age of the fifth or sixth, you might want to get fat to freeze some young stem cells ». Dr Hayward said «that get a group of stem cells is a very valuable work. However, the practical use of these tools probably will not happen years ago. However, it is the future of sports medicine. Dr. Regis O'Keeffe, a researcher and spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, said attempts to use the renewed cartilage in knees has so far «is not effective to a large degree». He pointed out that there are no studies being reviewed for many of the proposed remedies and limited experimentation on humans.

It was agreed that Dr. Freddie Vue, the leading orthopedic surgeon, University Medical Center in Pittsburgh «you answer the questions of safety and consideration of side effects. It will also be expensive. Again, this will not stop the athletes, they would be ready always to try anything that helps them to practice playing ».

And linked to the advancement of stem cell technology, some are acting now to prepare for the wealth of potential restoration. There are five of the professional soccer players who have stem cells frozen for their children at birth and stored in a Liverpool stem cell bank, according to a story published last year in the newspaper «The Sunday Times» London. And named one of the players stem cells «several potential repair of wounds», which threaten the possibility of the exercise play.

A stem cell treatments that do more than just renew the joints, so they can help build muscle in elite athletes and increase other physical capacity quickly and efficiently can not be achieved in the traditional manner.

Dr Hayward said that «there is a possibility to enhance performance in all of this», he said, adding that he met with officials who are trying to prepare for the new technology. He said «it may not be monitored because there is something abnormal, they are for your cells. I do not think he can convert a bad athlete into a superior athlete, but you can provide a factor that converts silver medal winner at the Olympic Games gold medal to the winner? The answer in my opinion, yes. He asked that «at the same time, can this type of engineering the body that perform the function under the stress of competition at that level? It is believed Arthur Caplan, director of the Center House ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said professional athletes still image Almrfahin stem cell technology is emerging as the fountain of youth.

Reach me and Steinberg, the agent experienced in the field of sport, that sport's biggest stars in the country could follow with enthusiasm, all progress in the field of orthopedics. Steinberg says that athletes have been constantly at the forefront of new medical technology, whether it relates to growth hormones or surgery, bone, so that the living, he said, depends mainly on their physical health. If the drug testing process took place and proved that it helps any of the athletes to continue playing for another four years, it would be seen as a gift from heaven. Steinberg also said he expected to soon begin advising clients to develop stem cells in umbilical cord bank dedicated to her, which he did Steinberg on the birth of his children. If you become the use of stem cell technology is widespread in the area of ​​sport in the future, it will open the door to a potential production of these cells by athletes to enhance their ability to play the latest signing of a contract worth $ 40 million. Says Dr. J.. Lin s programs, which operates an agency specializing in sports management, said that such things give rise to temper. He commented that the sports world is known for his lack of control on the moral side. And are treated as confidential in the places that preserve the stem cells, where there are samples of these cells back to the best American athletes, which prohibits confidentiality agreements signed between the parties concerned revealed the names of these owners of these samples. Says Dr. Robert Hariri, founder and Executive Director for «Aevbank USA», said that his institution has taken samples of the persons known mathematical background. And range in price collection and storage of blood in the «to Aevbank USA» Cedar Knowles New Jersey, as the price of storing umbilical cord blood as well as the amount of $ 1900 to $ 125 each year. And concentrated the main uses umbilical cord blood so far in the treatment of leukemia and other illnesses life-threatening. Hariri says in this context that the focus so far focused on things more important than the restoration of joints of athletes, but noted that they were aware of the possibilities and the revolution coming in this area

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