@rono2410 To me, this sounds too good to be true. I know of one patient who was wheelchair bound because of spinal cord injury and she went to another country thinking stem cell injections could repair the damage. That was a few years ago, and she remains in the wheelchair. That being said, Dr. Bydon, a neurosurgeon at Mayo Clinic, is researching stem cells for treating spinal cord trauma and has had some success with it, but not with every patient. The success of one patient of his was impressive and now that patient can walk again after being paralyzed.

I am a Mayo spine surgery patient, and I had pain all over my body caused by central canal stenosis compressing my cervical spinal cord. Decompression surgery fixed that pain. If the compression advances, a spine condition gets worse and causes more disability. It makes sense to decompress the problem to prevent further damage and before the damage becomes permanent.

I know we always wish to avoid surgery, and I too hoped stem cells could fix my collapsing disc, but that wasn't possible, and surgery to remove it was the best choice.

Have you had a consultation with a spine surgeon about your condition?

Yes - I have done this and PRP injections as a booster for cervical stenosis. At the time it seemed to provide me some very temporary relief after the inflammation calmed down. I did this treatment for a total of 6 months.

Within two months the pain returned. It was very costly & was not covered by insurance. I had ACDF 6 months later on C4-C7 & still in recovery from that procedure.

I wanted to do everything possible before surgery & I think I was just afraid to have the procedure.

Good luck but this was unfortunately a waste of money for me. It served its purpose at the time.