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Originally Posted by Riot
Stem cell therapy is pretty cool. I remember there were a few young horses from one consigner at Fasig a couple years ago who came with a card informing the buyer of stored umbilical cord blood from the horses' birth as a embryonic stem cell bank.
An overview:
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ceh/do...-4-bkm-sec.pdf
As an aside, last year I went to the human "stem cell research" clinical ortho at University of Kentucky, but alas, they were not yet in a position to help my torn meniscus. Dara Torres, the Olympic swimmer, had to go overseas to get stem cell treatment on her knee. That result is pending.
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While I too think Stem Cell treatment is awesome it is still a frightening thought to run this horse, one of my best friends had stem cell therapy on her reining horse at Alamo Pintado 2 years ago, he had 4 bad suspensories and could hardly walk, today he is serviceably sound.... for a trail horse, and his ankles never looked near as bad as Lava Mans have, and he is a 4 year old.