Here are the details:

The NZ scientists recruited eight teenage girls and five teenage boys (average age 17) with moderate cerebral palsy to receive PAT for nine minutes per day for 20 weeks.  They used special X-ray tests to measure bone-mineral density and muscle mass before and after the course of PAT treatment.

PAT was found to increase the distance they could walk (during a period of six minutes) from an average of 938 feet to 1,030 feet.

In a ScienceDaily write-up on this,  study lead author, Dr. Silmara Gusso, stated that, “By maintaining or improving muscle and bone health during growth, WBVT can maximize mobility and bone strength into adult life, improving both mobility and quality of life”.

 And:

 ”This extremely encouraging initial data strongly suggest WBVT will become a mainstay of treatment in children with loco-motor disability and justify the introduction of a completely novel and innovative treatment modality into pediatric health care.”

If you have a child or teenager with cerebral palsy and would like to discuss PAT with physician and adult (nonembryonic) stem cell treatment expert Alexander Thermos or just make an appointment to come in, call toll free 1-800-300-1063 (9 am to 5 pm Pacific Time, Monday through Friday).  

New study shows P.A.T builds bone in teenagers with cerebral palsy! is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

Senate Bill 959 is the most anti-patient bill headed for passage since 2010. Sponsored by Sen. Harkin, it has passed out of the Senate HELP Committee and is headed for a vote on the Senate floor.
 
CLICK HERE to find your Senator’s contact information. Then ask your Senator to “put a hold” on S. 959, the so-called “Pharmaceutical Compounding Quality and Accountability Act.”

S.959 vastly expands the power of the FDA, and will enable the FDA to shut down nearly all adult stem cell treatments.  As many in the pro-life movement realize, the FDA already prohibits and prevents many adult stem cell treatments.  The FDA obtained a ruling in federal court in D.C. against the use of adult stem cells by Regenerative Sciences.  But FDA jurisdiction still has limits, which have enabled some breakthroughs with adult stem cells.
 
S.959 would vastly expanding FDA authority over nearly all biological products, except for “human blood and blood components for transfusion.” (end of Section 2(b), p. 4 of S.959)  Adult stem cells will not fit into this exemption, which means that the FDA will obtain jurisdiction to shut down adult stem cell treatments if this bill passes.
 

CLICK THIS LINK TO READ THE REST OF THIS IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION: http://bit.ly/10daTBI

CALL TO ACTION: ASK YOUR SENATOR TO PUT A HOLD ON U.S. SENATE BILL 959! is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

Andrew Burkhart has cerebral palsy and has benefited greatly from the stem cell-rich bone marrow treatments, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and more he has received at Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic. He kicked off his second summer of such treatments this week and, not surprisingly, his mother Kellie Burkhart has been getting lots of questions on his Facebook page which she answered just today (June 11). Here is what Kellie had to say straight from Andrew’s Facebook community page:   

 

Andrew Burkhart

 

Just typed this out in response to lots of questions about Andrew, his treatments etc on his community page. Thought I would post if here as well in case any of you are wondering any of the same things…knowing that many of you don’t know all the details either. Happy to answer any questions. Please keep those prayers coming! Thank you!
~ KellieThank you for all the messages of prayers and support! Andrew did GREAT in the “spaceship chair” again today…as did Daddy and Pickle the Pig. … Lots of questions about Andrew, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, cerebral palsy and the bone marrow stem cell transplant that Andrew will be getting soon. Most of your questions can be answered by reading thru the blog that I have been keeping for the last 2 and a half years (since Andrew was diagnosed). I am linking it below. Read the page linked directly and then click on the “Educational Info” tab on the top and read thru that page. Most of your questions can be answered on those 2 pages.

Some have asked what we are hoping to achieve with these treatments for Andrew. In short, the best & most highly functional life for Andrew as possible. As you will read on the blog, Andrew has seen VERY SIGNIFICANT improvements from these treatments in the past. We will continue to do them until he no longer sees progress. We know that God is the ultimate healer and we feel very blessed to have found some amazing doctors who do things very differently than the mainstream. These “alternative” treatments all together — both what Andrew gets on an ongoing basis at home and what he gets in intensive treatments in the summers — have CHANGED ANDREW’S WORLD in very positive and significant ways!

Specifically to the questions about the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, it feels a lot like when you scuba dive in there — lots of pressure — you have to equalize your ears. Andrew is getting MUCH better at it now that it is his 3rd round of dives, but we bring in fruit chews for him to chew on just in case he is having a hard time equalizing his ears — the chewing motion will open up the ear drums most times.

Here is the blog link:http://prayforandrew.wordpress.com/our-story/

 

You can learn more about these powerful treatments by going to www.stemcellmed.org, www.davidsteenblock.com, and www.cerebralpalsycure.com. After you’ve done this, your next step should be to call 1-800-300-1063 (9 am to 5 pm Pacific Time, M-F) and set up a phone consultation with Dr. Alexander Thermos.   

 

Alexander Thermos, D.O. D.C.

Andrew Burkhart has benefited greatly from stem cells and hyperbaric oxygen. Read what his mother has to say! is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

A medical first involving a brain-damaged lad who received his own stem cell-rich umbilical cord blood, almost Biblical in the “lame walk and the blind see” sense of the word. And it is something truly worthy of note and celebration. Consider these statements from the article:

“Just weeks after being given an intravenous stem cell treatment from umbilical cord blood, the symptoms of a boy who had been left in a vegetative state after a heart attack improved considerably. Within months he could talk and move.

“The German doctors who carried out the treatment say the results of the treatment dispel ‘long-held doubts’ surrounding the effectiveness of stem cell therapy.”

The problem with this genuinely impressive turnaround is it really is not a medical first at all. In fact, similar clinical responses have been reported over the past decade by doctors who treated severely brain damaged children and adults using umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells and (more recently) stem cell-rich bone marrow.

For instance, beginning around 2008 Duke University pediatric neurology researchers began treating cerebral palsy in children using cord blood. One such story is reflected in this videotaped account: http://bit.ly/uOoDs

But at least five (5) years before Duke embarked on its umbilical cord blood work, children and infants with cerebral palsy were being treated with pure cord blood stem cells in Mexico by Fernando Ramirez, MD and his medical team. And, during 2004-5 Dr. Ramirez conducted a pilot study involving eight (8) children with CP who received injections of cord blood stem cells; a study spearheaded by Ramirez program medical and technical consultant Dr. David Steenblock and his team of advisers and support personnel at his nonprofit research center in San Clemente, California (Steenblock Research Institute).   

This study was published in the open access journal Medical Hypotheses & Research during 2005 (Click to access).

Dr. Steenblock, who in 2006 coauthored a book titled “Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Therapy: The Gift of Healing from Healthy Newborns”, remains staunchly convinced of the power of umbilical cord stem cells to effect healing and even regeneration in some instances, and not surprisingly continues to provide input to various reputable clinics doing umbilical cord stem cell therapy in Mexico and elsewhere. However, just as science and medicine is not static, neither is Dr. Steenblock: Beginning around 2006 he began harvesting and giving patients including (eventually) those with cerebral palsy their own stem cell-rich bone marrow (Technically referred to as “minimally manipulated bone marrow aspirate”). This approach turned out to an especially fruitful one. So much so that today he characterizes the use of a CP patient’s own bone marrow (aspirate) as “what will eventually emerge as the standard-of-care intervention for cerebral palsy”.

To understand why Dr. Steenblock zeroed in on bone marrow stem cells for neurologic conditions including CP (and far more), it is important to know a little about the nature of bone marrow and its cache of stem cells.

Your bones house and protect stem cell-rich tissue in their interior which is responsible for the production of new red blood cells as well as key immune system support cells called leucocytes (white blood cells) which keep you alive and well. In addition, bone marrow stem cells participate in the repair and growth of bodily tissues throughout your life. 

Bone marrow also contains another type of stem cell called a stromal stem cell which is also called a mesenchymal stem cell (MSC). These stem cells are support cells that help hematopoietic stem cells in their continuous production of blood cells. In other words, they are like the core machinery in a factory and are essential to the output (of blood cells) by that factory.

But these bone marrow stem cells do much more for our bodies. They enter the central nervous system where they generate new neurons and support the repair of damaged ones. In an article titled “Bone marrow generates new neurons in human brains” the results of a government sponsored study are discussed. One of the study authors, Èva Mezey, M.D., Ph.D., from HHS’ National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), noted that “This study shows that some kind of cell in bone marrow, most likely a stem cell, has the capacity to enter the brain and form neurons”.

This is something Dr. Steenblock realized back in 2005 and took advantage of by harvesting stem cell-rich bone marrow and giving it to adult neurology patients such as those with ALS (“Lou Gehrig’s disease), multiple sclerosis and chronic stroke. By 2011 he had done over 1500 such bone marrow aspirate treatments without any adverse or side effects and a considerable track record of impressive clinical responses. In light of this he began treating cerebral palsy patients including children (who weighed more than 70 lbs.) Naturally, Dr. Steenblock expected to see responses similar to or better than those he and his colleagues had documented with respect to umbilical cord stem cell treatments in Mexico. He was not disappointed as the responses of his pediatric CP patients to the bone marrow treatments consistently ran from good to stellar. Among the standout success stories is teenager Emily whose story is told in this videotaped segment: Click to watch Emily (Many more CP patient accounts can be found at http://www.stemcellmd.org/category/testimonials/cerebral-palsy-testimonials/ and in the additional information section following the conclusion of this article). 

During this time scientists in various countries carried out studies that underscored what Dr. Steenblock and his associates were seeing. Among them:

The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston carried out a phase 1 or safety study involving children with traumatic brain injuries (TBI). As part of this, ten children with severe traumatic brain injuries (aged 5-14) were given intravenous drip infusions of stem cells from their own bone marrow. In the months that followed none of the children showed any problems connected to the stem cells and, in fact, all of them showed significant improvements. Click to read a news release concerning this 2011 study.

Other lines of research revealed that bone marrow stem cells produce a host of powerful proteins called growth factors that actually stimulate stem cells that reside in the brain to become new neurons! One of these is bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMP2). If you’d like to read a technical abstract on this just click this link. Other studies have shown that bone marrow produces more BMP2 than other sources such as cells in the peripheral blood.  So, bottom line — bone marrow stem cells are actually very “neuro-friendly” on many levels.

And, in a 2011 paper Spanish university researchers revealed findings that indicate that bone marrow derived cells (BMDC) placed in the central nervous system (CNS) of lab animals “demonstrate that BMDC mainly generate microglial cells, although to a lesser extent a clear formation of neuronal types also exists”.  

During late 2012 Dr. Steenblock decided to cut back on his clinical work so as free up his time to devote to coming up with newer, better ways to get people well and keep them well.  As part of this “life transition” he brought a highly accomplished physician,  Alexander Thermos, D.O., D.C., into his clinic and trained him thoroughly in his various clinical treatment methods especially those related to use of bone marrow aspirate.  Dr. Thermos has added techniques and angles to this that augment and in some instances magnify its healing effects many fold.

In medicine there are pioneers and real “firsts”. The UK MailOnline.com article dubbed what the German doctors did a “first” which it wasn’t.  For those interested in genuine medical firsts, visit www.stemcellmd.org and www.strokedoctor.com or call the Clinic at 1-800-300-1063 from 9 am to 5 pm (Pacific Time), Monday through Friday.   

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON BONE MARROW ASPIRATE FOR CEREBRAL PALSY INCLUDING PATIENT INTERVIEWS

And the lame shall walk: Free video tells all

Dr. Steenblock’s cerebral palsy blog site debuts

Emily responds to critics of her stem cell CP turnaround

What can hyperbaric oxygen & stem cells do? Check out Andrew Burkhart’s story on Positively Positive and find out!

Cerebral palsy turnaround story: January 17 NBC-12 news segment on Andrew Burkhart

How stem cells & the kindness of others helped Andrew Burkhart: Article & story from NBC 4 (Los Angeles)

UPDATE on Andrew: “Miracle in progress” reports Kellie Burkhart

NBC-12: “Kellie, the best stem cell doctor in this country is in California. His name is Dr. Steenblock”  

Patience, Determination, Perseverance: Melany (Melly) Geary writes about her stem cell turnaround (cerebral palsy)

60 Minutes (NZ) Stem Cell News Segment: “In Search of a Miracle”

VIDEO: Tim has cerebral palsy and found help at Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic!

When it comes to stem cell help for cerebral palsy…go with a winner!

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Reporters hail amazing turnaround in brain-damaged boy treated with umbilical cord blood but leave much unsaid is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

You’ve undoubtedly heard or read something about the healing power of stem cells. What you may be unaware of is that our bodies have stem cells in virtually all its tissues (called “adult stem cells” or ASCs) which play a role in replacing diseased, injured or aged bodily cells. However, when an individual is hit by serious injury or disease his body may not be able to rally enough stem cells to turn things around. This is especially true when it comes to the childhood brain disorder, cerebral palsy (CP).

Of course, mainstream doctors and therapists do all they can to strengthen limbs and reduce disability but even so their best usually leaves CP patients and their parents or caregivers frustrated with the small gains and general lack of progress.  And this was pretty much the best that could be done until about a decade ago when a small number of pioneering doctors such as Dr. Alexander Thermos began treating CP patients with hyperbaric oxygen therapy and then later adult stem cells.

CP patients here in the US can get safe, legal treatments with their own bone marrow stem cells (No rejection issues). Case-in-point: A California clinic headed by Dr. Alexander Thermos has done over 1500 such treatments on children and adults during the past six years. And, since 2009 scores of children and young people with CP have been treated with results so consistently impressive that the patient’s own doctors characterize it as “a genuine medical advance” and the “future standard of care when it comes to the treatment of cerebral palsy”.

Here is just one CP patient success story from our bulging files:

Kellie Burkhart’s son, Andrew, 6, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy two years ago. She wanted to have her son treated with adult (nonembryonic) stem cells but was uncertain where to take him. She asked her doctors in Arizona and they told her the best clinic for this is right here in the US, namely one run by Dr. Alexander Thermos. With the generous support of friends as well as members of a church in Mission Viejo (CA), Andrew had a series of hyperbaric oxygen and stem cell treatments during the summer of 2011 and again in the summer of 2012. Andrew’s response was so incredibly profound that KNBC-4 came out to Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic and taped a moving news segment which aired on 8-15-2012 that you can access by clicking this link. Following this NBC-12 aired its own very informative, very moving segment on Andrew which you can see by clicking this link.  Blog updates can be accessed by clicking this link. 

Whether you or a loved one has CP or some other chronic condition or disease, you can learn more about the powerful bone marrow stem cell and other treatments being done by Dr. Alexander Thermos and his medial team by calling 1-800-300-1063 (9 am to 5 pm Pacific Time, Monday through Friday). You can also click this link and send Dr. Thermos and his caring staff a message.  They will get back to you as quickly as possible. 

BREAKTHROUGH TREATMENT FOR CEREBRAL PALSY! is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

You need a better way but the trick is to find it. There is no paucity of opinions and information (as well as disinformation) on the Internet. Even so-called experts offer sometimes conflicting ideas and else ones that are not comprehensive (in the sense they leave out novel but valid approaches outside their specialty).

Enter the Steenblock Group (headquartered in San Clemente, California) founded and headed by physician and stem cell expert, David A. Steenblock….

The Steenblock Group finds the answers and unique treatment angles others leave out or just plain miss. How do they pull this off? In-a-word, resources….

At the heart of the Steenblock Group is a diverse multidisciplinary team whose lives and careers have thrived on generating new ideas, insights and creative solutions. This includes two (2) molecular biologists, two highly experienced stem cell physicians, a Ph.D. nutritional biochemist, a biomedical research genius, and three full time medical librarians.

The Steenblock Group has over one million carefully selected and organized medical journal articles including those that focus on hopeless diseases and medical conditions, plus 35,000 medical books and an instantly accessible database containing over 5,000 medical journals.

Armed with a patient’s records the Steenblock Group scours the medical literature, consults with those doing the latest research on the specific medical challenge in question, and then brainstorms to arrive at a suggested course of action.

In some cases the patient may be asked to come to Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic in Mission Viejo (California), generally for no less than 3 weeks.

A thorough case review runs $3K USD and includes a report concerning what the Group considers best treatment options. Those who elect to pursue specific recommended treatments at Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic will be provided an estimate of total costs upon request.

For more information call 1-949-388-1198. You can also go through Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic at 1-800-300-1063.

Second opinion or better opinion? The Steenblock Group finds & creates solutions to hopeless medical situations! is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

David Steenblock, B.S.,M.S., D.O.

1-800-300-1063 – The Road to Your Healing Starts Here, Now!

Dr. Steenblock welcomes Dr. Alexander Thermos to his namesake clinic is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

Doctors trained in CST, such as Alexander Thermos, D.O., D.C.,  generally use a soft touch on the skull and elsewhere that has about as much “push” as a nickel (5 cent piece). Practitioners report that CST is effective for a wide range of diseases and medical conditions including but not limited to chronic neck and back pain & discomfort, chronic fatigue,  colitis, emotional issues, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), various nervous disorders, scoliosis, stress, TBI (traumatic brain injury), TMJ (temporomandibular joint syndrome), and more.

CST is also used to treat autism. Readers interested in learning more are invited to read “Autism Spectrum Disorder: How CranioSacral Therapy Can Help” By Tad Wanveer, LMT, CST-D at http://www.upledger.com/pdf/CS0707.pdf.

If you feel CST might benefit you or your child or other family member, please call 1-800-300-1063 (9 am to 5 pm Pacific Time Monday through Friday) to schedule a phone consultation with physician and highly experienced CST practitioner Dr. Thermos.

Yes, Virginia, Dr. Thermos does Craniosacral Therapy! is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

You’ll find Dr. Thermos’s CV at http://bit.ly/10ZZCW2.

 Here are just a few of the therapies and treatments Dr. Thermos does:

CranioSacral Therapy

Stem cell-rich bone marrow aspirate treatments

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

If you have a health condition or issue you’d like to discuss with Dr. Thermos, call the clinic toll free at 1-800-300-1063 (9 am to 5 pm Pacific Time Monday through Friday) and let the caring front office crew help set this up for you.

Check out Dr. Thermos’s FACEBOOK page is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies

This conference, which is being held in collaboration with the Israel Stem Cell Society (ISCS), will feature presentations by such stem cell luminaries as Joanne Kurtzberg, MD
(Duke University Medical Center), and Arnold Caplan, Ph.D.
(Case Western Reserve University).

Like many of those attending Israstem, Dr. Steenblock brings to the table a wealth of experience in stem cell therapeutics. From 2003-7 Dr. Steenblock was adviser to one of the very first medical clinics in the world (Mexico) to use umbilical cord stem cells to treat neurologic disease and disorders including cerebral palsy (This included participating in a pioneering open pilot study of umbilical cord stem cells and cerebral palsy in eight children which was written up as a paper and appeared in the journal Medical Hypotheses & Research). In 2009 he pioneered the use of stem cell-rich bone marrow aspirate (BMAC) to treat a wide of chronic diseases and disorders, a form of stem cell therapy that is legal in the US. The clinical responses of his cerebral palsy patients have been so consistently impressive that Dr. Steenblock as well as other doctors characterize this treatment as “a major medical advance, one almost certain to be the standard-of-care for CP and similar neurological challenges at some point in the future”.

Dr. Steenblock currently serves as executive director of the clinic he founded, Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic (Alexander Thermos, D.O., D.C., Medical Director), and is also President of the Steenblock Research Institute, a nonprofit research facility that includes a massive medical & scientific library and molecular biology R & D laboratory.  

Those interested in learning more about Dr. Steenblock and the ongoing work of his researchers and clinic healthcare team as well as those who’d like to discuss specific personal medical issues (with Dr. Thermos) are encouraged to call 1-800-300-1063 (9 am to 5 pm Pacific Time, Monday through Friday). Those who prefer to communicate in writing can do so by clicking this link http://www.stemcellmd.org/1005-2/, then completing the form and submitting it. 

Dr. Steenblock to attend Israstem 2013 conference in Ramat Gan, Israel! is a post from: David Steenblock, D.O. - Specializing in Stem Cell Treatments, Adult Stem Cells & Stem Cell Therapies