Home | News | Experts | Q&A | Interactives | Features | Directories | Shared Experiences | Dictionary | Calculators | A-Z Topics
Top Searches
Diet Plan, Swine flu, Sex During Pregnancy, Masturbation, Contraceptives, Sex, Diabetes, Heart, Pregnancy
DoctorNDTV Search
Sections
Bones & Joints
Breast Feeding
Cancer
Child Development
Children
Diabetes
Drugs
Ear
Emotions
Eyes
Fitness/Lifestyle
Health Insurance
Heart
HIV/AIDS
Infection
Injuries/FirstAid
Liver
Men's Health
Nutrition
Pregnancy
Rehabilitation Medicine
Sex
Skin
Surgery
Teeth
Tobacco Control
Travel and Health
Tuberculosis
Women's Health
Locations of visitors to this page
Q&A
If you have any query about any medical problem get an answer from an expert
Comments: Read | Post
Can a stem cell therapy help spinal cord injury?
Answered by : Dr Dharma R Choudhary
Clinical Hematologist & Bone Marrow Transplant Physician,BL Kapur Memorial Hospital, New Delhi
Q. My 20 years old wife had an accident recently in which her spinal cord got injured. Her L3 and L4 bones broke and due to this she has lost her senses from the waist part to both the legs including urine control. The doctor said that there is no hope and only a miracle can save her from paralysis. Is there any treatment for such injuries? I have heard about stem cell therapy. Is it effective? Should I approach this therapy?
A.  Till today there is no definitive scientific data of stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury and neuronal regeneration in human. A few anecdotal case reports in newspapers are the only evidence. Animal data regarding this therapy are there and in future it may become a mode of therapy but at present without hard data regarding efficacy/ safety of stem cells therapy, we do not recommend anyone about this form of therapy out of study protocol.
Comments: Read | Post
More from this section
More »
Post comments
We request you not to tell us about your medical problems through this comment tool.
We are unable to keep track of the innumerable queries and their answers that we get everyday unless they are sent through "Ask a Question"

Name:*   E-mail:*
City:   Phone:
Comments:* 7000 characters remaining
Spam protection
Enter the code:*
Disclaimer: Material sent in this section is contributed by users. DoctorNDTV accepts no responsibility for the content or accuracy of such material and does not endorse or subscribe to the content.
----------------------- Advertisement --------------------------
 
 
Poll
Q. Do you think the community is more responsible for the dengue outbreaks rather than the government?
Yes No
Post your comment | Previous poll  
 
Survey
Do you like the new look and feel of DoctorNDTV.com?
Do you like the new look and feel of DoctorNDTV.com?
Change is the only constant. Keeping this in mind, we recently revamped DoctorNDTV.com.
Join survey »
 
Bouquets & Brickbats
Begin another forum...
Sent by KAMAL VYAS 
More »
 
-------------------------------- Advertisement -----------------------------------