ESPN the Magazine featured our Orthopedic stem cell procedure, our treatment of NFL player Jarvis Green, and our new Cayman Islands advanced culture site today. The article by sports writer Shaun Assael, discusses the fact that many athletes are leaving the country despite simple stem cell therapies being offered here in the states. They are leaving for more advanced procedures like Regenexx-C.
This story appears in the Oct. 17 issue of ESPN The Magazine.
Jim Bradley understands the season-on-the-brink desperation that, according to Fox Sports, sent Peyton Manning and his ailing neck to Europe this summer, seeking the experimental promise of stem cells. For the past two decades as the Steelers orthopedist, Bradley has listened to injured athletes beg him to be creative in getting them back onto the field. “In the last year, I’ve seen half a dozen guys go to South Korea, Japan, Germany, even Russia for stem cell procedures,” says Bradley, a past president of the NFL Physician’s Society. “And there’s going to be plenty more.” Read more…
