The following interview is an excerpt from Dr. Riordan's Amazon #1 bestselling book, Stem Cell Therapy: A Rising Tide - How Stem Cells Are Disrupting Medicine and Transforming Lives NEIL RIORDAN: I’ve known of Dr. Caplan’s work for years. He named the mesenchymal stem cell, although he has some thoughts on changing that name. His [...]
Dr. Roberta Shapiro, Assistant Clinical Professor at Columbia University Medical Center discusses the “Wild West of Stem Cells in the United States. She touches upon topics that include: promises of “miracle” cures for a wide variety of diseases and conditions, unwarranted warnings of danger, FDA oversight, types of stem cell treatments [...]
At our May 4th 2019 event in Southlake, Texas, Dr. Riordan discusses stem cell therapy at the Stem Cell Institute in Panama City, Panama. He mentions the two main types of adult stem cells but his talk focuses on mesenchymal stem cells including their sources and functions. Then he goes on [...]
Edward: “Hi my name is Edward Hicks. I had this procedure done October 30th. I was prepared to have shoulder surgery for over 30 years. I have had major pain in both shoulders, specifically this one. [I] had an MRI on it, [and] had two tears in my rotator cuff, and [...]
This 2013 study features a treatment group (who received bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells) and a control group (who did not receive cells). 20 patients were in the treatment group and 20 in the control group, for a total of 40 patients with spinal cord injuries. The MSCs were harvested from the bone marrow of the [...]
Research on the treatment of spinal cord injury with cells from bone marrow aspirate was already ongoing more than a decade ago. This 2008 study followed 8 patients for for 2 years after receiving an average of 90 million CD34 cells directly to the spinal cord with no serious adverse events. The patients reported improvements [...]
Mitochondria are extremely important for cells, as they produce the energy they need to carry out their tasks in a normal, healthy body. So when mitochondria can’t or won’t function as they are supposed to, serious conditions or diseases can develop. This 2018 study from Canada shows that human mesenchymal stem cells can interact with [...]
Neuropathic pain, also known as nerve pain or neuralgia, occurs when there is damage to the nerves; it is one of the major consequences of spinal cord injury. In this study based in Spain, 10 patients received a dose of 100 million bone marrow MSCs, repeated at 4 months and 7 months. No adverse events [...]
On Sunday, February 24th, Fox 4 Sports in Dallas-Fort Worth aired a feature story about one of Dr. Riordan's clinic's patients, Sam Harrell. Sam is head football coach at Ennis High School in Texas. Sam was forced to retired from coaching several years ago due to multiple sclerosis but is now back [...]
The Neil Riordan Center for Regenerative Medicine Focuses on Non-Opioid Treatments of Pain (Tempe, Arizona, October 2, 2018)--Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences team will cut the ribbon for the opening of the new Neil Riordan Center for Regenerative Medicine on November 15 at 4:00 p.m. This affiliation between SCNM and Neil H. [...]
