“I woke up and after standing up, said to myself, ‘wait a minute what just happened? I don’t feel any pain,’” Jim recalls. “I was so ecstatic and excited that I literally started jumping up and down!”

Normally, discs between each bone in the spine cushion those bones so they don’t rub against each other, but the onset of degenerative disc disease interferes with that function, causing pain and poor range of motion in the arms, legs, and neck.

“I basically had no tissue left in my L5 S1 disc,” Jim says. “I had surgery to treat a nerve, but that didn’t help. Another option was surgery to fuse my spine – but I’m too young for that. So I decided to try cell therapy and this really changed my life!”


Regenerating disc tissue for quick and ongoing relief from pain

According to BioXcellerator Chief Medical Officer Dr. Karolynn Halpert, stem cell therapy helps patients like Jim because this type of treatment – backed by 20 years of clinically based research – takes advantage of the body’s natural repair processes to regenerate vital tissue and restore normal disc shape and function.

“During Jim’s first treatment, we injected cells directly into the affected disc along with BioXgel to give the disc immediate structure while the stem cells began to regenerate new tissue,” she says.  
“After 10 months, an MRI test showed that the severe inflammation that had surrounded that disc was nearly gone and that the disc had been rehydrated to restore normal function and reduce pain,” she adds.

BioXcellerator’s proprietary treatment protocol is based on a specific type of cell --  mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from Wharton’s Jelly extracted from donated umbilical cords. Cells are tested for specific biological properties that indicate high potency and only those cells are  cultured and expanded into infusions of millions of cells.