Read an article about Bartolo Colon using stem cells on his shoulder. Dude is throwing 97 mph at times and he was only touching 89 a few years back. Anyways, do you think some players can use this treatment regarding serious injuries? I'm looking mostly at Brandon Roy...
It's basically using the same principle as microfracture surgery. I'm interested to see if prolotherapy gains some steam among NBA players as an alternative to knee scopes.
I don't know why you would make such a bet. The goal of microfracture surgery is to release bone marrow stem cells to repair cartilage. In Bartolo Colon's procedure, they extracted bone marrow stem cells and injected them into his elbow and shoulder.
No, it wouldn't. For Tracy you would have to use a foreign source, such as a donor, which could lead to rejection even if he followed the lifetime regiment of immunodepressive drugs, which incidentally would leave him more suceptible to other illnesses; or, fetal stem cells which also lead to rejection, as well as unstable growth which causes tumors and other cancerous presentations. Unfortunately for Tracy, the only potential option would be adult stem cells cultivated from his bone marrow, but that won't work either because he has no Y chromosome, so his stem cells can't be used to generate male gonadal tissue.
Aside from my religious views, stem cells should be illegal because that might give certain players an advantage. Consider them to be steroids. Like the OP said, the player can now throw faster.
Why would one's religious views affect how they feel about someone using their own stem cells to heal an injury?
well religion is mentioned, so it has to be the idea that it incurring the wrath of god by tampering with his plan....lol
His injuries have to do with simple physics. He has 300+ pounds of force on his foot going up and down a court.
Dude give it up already....it's been over 2 yrs now! Did you catch him climbing out of your window wihen you drove up? Maybe your wife is not as mad as you are.
That seems like a lazy argument. A bigger person should still be proportional, so I'm not sure why weight should matter if the person is still thin relative to height. I'm going to go with Yao's foot injuries being caused by his clumsiness (it's statistically incredibly improbable to find an athlete that is graceful by NBA standards AND ~7' 6") and his heavy usage when he was playing.
He has a stress fracture. Laziness has nothing to do with that. The first time it might have been from heavy usage. Considering he did not play the previous season and still got a stress fracture 5 games into the next should tell you his body might not be up to it.
