Has anyone from the UK heard or tired this treatment?

March 14, 2009

Orthokine therapy

Injection Relieves Arthritis Pain

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(March 12) -- Scientists may have discovered a treatment that essentially cures

osteoarthritis pain, according to the Daily Mail.

The debilitating condition occurs when the cartilage in bone joints wears away,

leaving bones to rub painfully together. Inflammation can follow, and that

inflammation can trigger the body to release a protein that battles the

inflammation -- but also destroys more cartilage.

A second protein helps protect the cartilage, but too often there isn't enough.

Now, reported the British paper, doctors can take blood from a patient, grow

more of the defensive protein and then inject a serum with the proteins back

into the patient's joints. The process is called Orthokine therapy.

Wehling, a former surgeon working on the new therapy, said 75 percent of

patients in a recently released study saw improved mobility and less

inflammation, the Daily Mail reported.

The process is available in several European countries, including the UK as of

this month.

" By the time I was 60, the pain was coming every six weeks and would often leave

me struggling to walk for any distance, " said one patient.

" Following the treatment, I felt almost instant relief. Within a week I could

touch my toes for the first time in years and I could play golf again. I felt as

if I had gone back 20 years. The full effect began to wear off about 12 months

later, but I haven't needed a top-up yet. "

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