Kenny Potts, 24 years, Spinal Cord Injury
Kenny Potts Stem Cell Treatment
Reposted from RiderDown.org - January, 2010
Hello I would like to share some information about Stem Cell
Treatment that uses Adult Stem Cells.
Our son Kenny injured his spinal cord on July 24, 2008. Kenny rode
his motorcycle as a stress reliever and to just have fun. Kenny was
riding at a local track and went over a small jump and fell over
his handle bars breaking his C-5, and fracturing his C-4 &
6.
Kenny's initial diagnosis was total paralysis from the chest down, we were told that he would never be able to eat, drink or breathe on his own. Well as a mom I never took that diagnosis seriously.
After months of therapy and rehabilitation we decided to look into Stem Cell Therapy. I found a center in Germany that uses your own "Adult Stem Cells", which are better for your body and recovery because they are not foreign and they know were to go and what to heal once they are re-entered into the body. After researching the Center and the treatment we applied and submitted an application to receive treatment for our son Kenny.
Kenny was approved for treatment, so we scheduled and planned our trip to Germany. Kenny received his treatment on October 28, 2009. The procedure is on an outpatient basis, it quick and pretty much pain free. This procedure is many years ahead of American medicine, our doctors at Kaiser have told us, and we have seen positive results.
Kenny is now gaining strength, weight, muscle, more hand & trunk control. Although Kenny isn't fully independent we are still hopeful for a full recovery. We have begun to follow the therapy treatments that were given to us at the center, it seems to be working. We are planning to return to Germany for another treatment hopefully sometime this year.
We are very happy with Kenny's results we would love to see other riders receive the treatment and gain more results during their rehabilition. Time line of the injury is not limited. The center treats patients with all types of injuries and many years after the injury has happened.
The name of the center is called X-Cell Center in Germany. The cost for the treatment runs around 12,000 US dollars. We spent under $20,000 for 3 of us including hotel, airfare, transportation and treatment.
I have been given approval to refer new patients to the X-Cell Center. If you are interested please email or contact me with a reply and I will submit your name to the to the center. I will be happy to answer any questions.
By me submitting your name the center will know that the injury
was related to a motorcycle/ATV accident. They are interested in
recoveries that come from this type accident. This will also help
further their research on SCI motorcycle accidents.
Blessings to all,
Tammy Potts
ctkmp4@aol.com
