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Report by Christina Leavenworth, WALA PENSACOLA, Fla. – Tara Blackwell graduated from Pine Forest High School, she was a star athlete. During a college softball tournament, she did a flip and broke her neck, leaving her paralyzed. Adult stem cells were taken from her bone marrow and injected into her spine. She says she’s starting to have feeling in her legs. Tara Blackwell told FOX10 News, “They inserted 9,000 stem cells into my spine. I can feel my left thigh, and what’s really weird when I itch my right shoulder, I can feel it in my hip. A small sensation means the world to her. Tara believes one day she will walk. She says she’s heard stories of people walking again after the treatment. |
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