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Promising New Treatments for Myelomalacia and Spinal Cord Injury

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Stem Cell TrialsAfter waking up in hospital and being told that he was paralyzed from the neck down, Chris Barr is now walking without assistance, thanks to advances in stem cell treatment.

Chris was surfing at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, as he did each weekend for the past ten years. Except this time, he took a spill head-first and broke his neck in eight places.

When his family came to see him, he asked them to switch off the ventilator keeping him alive. Dr. Mohamad Bydon, a neurosurgeon at Mayo Clinic made contact with the Barr family and Chris agreed to be the first patient for a stem cell transplant trial.

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