{"id":186599,"date":"2024-04-01T22:26:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T03:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/paralyzed-man-who-can-walk-again-shows-potential-benefit-of-stem-cell-therapy"},"modified":"2024-04-01T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T03:26:45","slug":"paralyzed-man-who-can-walk-again-shows-potential-benefit-of-stem-cell-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/paralyzed-man-who-can-walk-again-shows-potential-benefit-of-stem-cell-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Paralyzed man who can walk again shows potential benefit of stem cell therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paralyzed-man-who-can-walk-again-shows-potential-benefit-of-stem-cell-therapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A man who was <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/wellness\/story\/artificial-intelligence-medical-procedure-paralyzed-man-walk-99588314\" target=\"_blank\">paralyzed<\/a> from the neck down after a surfing accident seven years ago is now able to <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/family\/story\/emotional-video-shows-year-walking-paralyzed-76070003\" target=\"_blank\">stand and walk on his own<\/a>, thanks in part to a potentially groundbreaking stem cell treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Wellness\/man-paralyzed-neck-walks-medical-innovation\/story?id=67335606\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Barr<\/a> was the very first patient in a <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org\/discussion\/study-documents-safety-improvements-from-stem-cell-therapy-after-spinal-cord-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayo Clinic study<\/a> that collected stem cells from his own stomach fat, expanded them in a laboratory to 100 million cells and then injected the cells into Barr\u2019s lumbar spine.<\/p>\n<p>Over five years after undergoing the therapy, Barr said he is continuing to gain more independence and get faster at walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was paralyzed from the neck down after a surfing accident seven years ago is now able to stand and walk on his own, thanks in part to a potentially groundbreaking stem cell treatment. Chris Barr was the very first patient in a Mayo Clinic study that collected stem cells from his own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}