A nine-year-old Labrador with crippling arthritis should be experiencing some relief soon.
The Herald-Palladium reports Dr. Philip Hecht performed a roughly six-hour stem cell procedure on the dog to treat her condition. The proceedure started off by harvesting fat tissue from Hannah's rib cage and upper shoulder blade. The tissue underwent elaborate filtering and processing to gain the stem cells for re-use in Hannah's body.
Hecht says he’s the only veterinarian in Southwest Michigan performing such procedures, which essentially uses the body's own regenerative healing power to help cats, dogs and horses.
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"It's really more of a therapy -- a therapy that's effective on you might not be effective on me," Hecht said. "We're not going to make that go away, but we want to improve her quality of life by increasing her mobility, and by decreasing her pain. That's the whole point. It's not going to be perfect. It's regenerative medicine."
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Source: Herald-Palladium
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