How Stem Cells can help Cerebral Palsy

The majority of clinics here in the US focus on containing or managing symptoms and not zeroing in on and dealing with underlying causes & contributors to a patient’s medical challenges. As a result patients wind up with a drug for each symptom and a host of others to counter the side-effects of these! Dr. David Steenblock, who was originally trained as a pathologist (medical detective), is better equipped than most physicians to identify the precise causes & major contributors to each patient’s ill health, and then effectively deal with them. However, rather than rely primarily on pharmaceuticals he favors gentle, natural products such as herbs, vitamins, amino acids and standardized herbal formulas that support the body’s own innate healing mechanisms. But, unlike others doing holistic medicine, he possesses a depth of knowledge and experience that is unrivaled in the field. In fact, he set up the very first modern holistic medical practice west of the Mississippi over forty years ago and since then has built up a body of knowledge and insight that truly is unmatched anywhere. In addition, he is a world class authority on how to identify and remove toxic influences & other things that impede or retard each patient’s recovery & restoration. And, being a medical trailblazer by nature, something instilled in him as a boy growing up on an Iowa farm, he has created an endless succession of truly novel and highly effective methods for getting healing results, even in people who have failed to respond to the “latest & greatest” that other doctors have tried.  One of his medical innovations is the whole bone marrow transplant in which he harvests a patient’s own stem cell-rich bone marrow and gives it back to them! More recently, he came up with a way to purge old, devitalized stem cells out of the bone marrow which prods natural mechanisms to kick in and create new, robust stem cells (He then harvests this stem cell-rich tissue and treats the patient with it.)

Here in-a-nutshell is just some of the many things Dr. Steenblock does and uses to get patients healed up:

Stem Cells:

Your bone marrow produces stem cells, some of which are released when an injury or disease strikes to bring about healing and restoration. Young people have very vigorous, robust stem cells in their bone marrow which Dr. Steenblock harvests and infuses by IV or other means (Depending on what he is treating.)  Unfortunately, some diseases as well as age can undermine the vitality of stem cells in the marrow. To counter this Dr. Steenblock came up with a unique way to purge unresponsive and/or aged stem cells out of the bone marrow, which results in the creation of millions of new, more robust ones. He then painlessly harvests and expertly injects or infuses these into the affected tissues.

Hyperbaric Oxygen:  Many diseases arise or are caused by or made worse by a lack of oxygen. One way to remedy this is to use hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), in which patients sit in a hard shell chamber and have oxygen pumped in under pressure. This is akin to being many feet under the ocean. This process saturates body tissues with oxygen which stimulates and supports healing. In addition, HBOT has been shown to help mobilize a person’s own stem cells from the bone marrow. Dr. Steenblock’s Clinic has four state-of-the-art HBOT chambers and a staff of certified, experienced HBOT technicians.

External counterpulsation (EECP): EECP involves use of a sophisticated machine that basically pumps blood back to a person’s heart between beats. This is done using a computer and large pressure cuffs that go around the legs and waist. Approved by the FDA for treating angina and referred to as “a natural bypass” by many doctors, EECP facilitates the growth of new blood vessels and helps stimulate healing at many levels.

Periodic Acceleration Therapy: PAT involves the use of a machine in which patients lie prone on a sophisticated platform and get a moderate cardiovascular work-out from its gentle back-and-forth motion. This creates a very mild stress on blood vessels that gets them busy producing Nitric Oxide (NO), a chemical confers all kinds of health benefits including facilitating better blood flow to organs and tissues body wide. NO also plays a role in mobilizing a person’s own stem cells from their bone marrow. Dr. Steenblock uses it as a standalone treatment for some conditions and also as on some patients prior to their having a whole bone marrow transplant.

Intravenous (IV) Therapy: When people are young and healthy their bodies are flooded with growth factors, hormones, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and other compounds that help maintain tissues and organs and encourage rapid healing when things go wrong. Dr. Steenblock designs IV “cocktails” that help duplicate this biological state-of-affairs in older and especially infirm or ill people.

Pulsed Electromagnetic Therapy: If “healing from a distance” sounds magical it isn’t. Actually Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy or PEMF has received FDA approval for the treatment of certain bone fractures. Beyond this, many clinical studies indicate it is great for stepping up the healing of soft-tissue wounds, as well as for suppressing inflammation in way that alleviates pain and increases range of motion in injured and diseased limbs and joints.  Dr. Steenblock has found that PEMF and hyperbaric oxygen work synergistically to step up healing in many instances in both adults and children.