Asons Solicitors comment of Cerebral Palsy Treatment Breakthrough

(PRWEB UK) 6 June 2013

The reports claims that a young boy known only as L.B, had been left in a vegetative state after going into cardiac arrest in November 2008 (1). However, only a few weeks after being given an intravenous stem cell treatment from a frozen sample of blood for his umbilical cord, his symptoms significantly improved and within only a few months he was able to communicate and move around (1).

Asons executive Suzanne Yates commented on this breakthrough saying:

I find it amazing that modern research has been able to provide this boy with a quality of life that he would never have had prior to this treatment. Cerebral Palsy as extensive as this would have left the boy completely unable to enjoy his life and would have required a lifetime of care. Luckily for him and his family, he will able to grow up a happy child.

The doctors who performed the treatment said that these results will go some way to diminish long held doubts regarding peoples thoughts and attitudes towards the effectiveness of stem cell therapy, as quoted in the article (1).

The parents of L.B began researching possible treatments for their son after they were told that his chances of survival were minimal after he became paralysed with severe brain damage following his heart attack in 2008 (1).

It has been reported that it was at this point that they came across this procedure, which led to them contacting the Dr Arne Jenson and asking about the possibilities of using their sons frozen blood (1).

The news report states that on January 27th 2009, doctors administered the altered stem cell version of his blood directly back into his veins and began to study the changes in his brain cells at intermittent periods (1). In the following months after the treatment, L.Bs symptoms were said to have improved a great amount, with his muscle spasticity decreasing significantly, along with improvements in his speech and movements. Sometime after the procedure, L.B was even reported to have been able to eat without any assistance, walk with the help of another person and speak small sentences (1).

Speaking on the recovery, Doctor Jenson said: Of course, on the basis of these results, we cannot clearly say what the cause of the recovery is. It is, however, very difficult to explain these remarkable effects by purely symptomatic treatment during active rehabilitation.(1)

The stem cell treatment has been monitored in previous studies to now, and it has been shown that the stem cells migrate to the damaged brain tissue causing them to repair themselves, which could give millions of cerebral palsy sufferers and their families hope for recovery, according to the report (1).

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