Stem Cell Treatment for Spinal Cord Injured Texan!

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A police officer who was paralyzed in a car accident is now doing better thanks to repair stem cell therapy.  Rickey Turner, had to go all the way  to China to get this stem cell therapy because it isn't yet approved in the USA (although it should be).  Is he walking again?  No, but the beauty of adult (repair) stem cell therapy for spinal cord injuries is that it is a very low risk procedure that has helped him (and others) in ways that people who aren't paralyzed have difficulty imagining.  Read on to see what I mean:

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Sitting at home in his electric wheelchair, Turner recalled a much different life before his brush with death in 2006.

Turner was seriously injured Aug. 29, 2006, while he was on patrol in Henderson. The wreck left him paralyzed.

"My left hand was sensitive to touch," Turner, a father of three, recalled. "My index and middle finger were hypersensitive on my left hand, and if I moved them, it shot a sharp pain up through my arm. If I had a spasm in my leg, it would send a pain like lava, and I would scream out in pain."

Turner also lost feeling in part of his arms and had no movement from his chest down to his legs. He also sustained irreversible injuries to his spinal cord. Doctors told him he would never walk again.

Turner said the pain from his condition caused him to withdraw as the Democratic nominee for Rusk County sheriff earlier this year.

But those prognoses since have changed.

In March, Turner traveled to Hangzhou, China to seek treatment at Xiaoshan Hospital. He received six injections of adult stem cells, harvested from umbilical cord blood, in his spinal cord in hopes that he would have the chance to move freely again.

Turner said he had to go to China to receive treatment because the spinal cord procedure has not been approved in the United States. Stem cells harvested from umbilical cord blood rehabilitates damaged nerves and improves motor functions, such as body movement and bowel control, according to the Beike Cell Medical Group that performed Turner's stem cell treatment and coordinated his trip.

The treatment worked.

"My mother was sitting with me that night, and I could touch my index and middle finger and didn't have the sharp pain," Turner said, recalling what happened after he received his fourth stem cell injection. "Then my finger began to move. My mother asked, 'Did you do that?' I told her, 'I think I did.' "

Turner said the doctors didn't expect any activity to occur for 75 days. It took three weeks.

"The doctors came in to check on me and couldn't believe it," Turner said. "They ran out of the room and came back in and started videotaping everything. My mother and I were crying because the last time I was able to move those fingers was before the wreck. It was really something."

Since his treatment, Turner has more mobility in his upper torso, has more strength and motion in his arms and can play-wrestle with his 4-year-old son Corbin Turner.

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