3D printing will help restore discs Bashny.Net

Has repeatedly published news about back health and ways that will enable it to maintain health. This can be a special armchair for office workers, alternating loads, physical education and more. But what if the spine was damaged? After all, a fairly common disease have a damaged intervertebral discs (in the U.S., for example, about 30 million people get sick with such things in one form or another). A group of scientists from Cornell University (USA) is currently developing methods for the reconstruction of damaged intervertebral discs.



For this purpose, a special mass with a high content of stem cells. With this mass and running biomechanical 3D printer, which restores the damaged areas of discs in patients. Once stem cells begin to communicate with native disc cells, they transformirovalsya in the appropriate tissue, restoring, thus, the damaged area. In a few weeks, the patient should be healthy and not experience problems with the updated ROM.
Technology, despite its improbability, is almost realized. Large-scale implementation is not far off, and a new method of restoration of the intervertebral discs tested about 100 patients (though patients are not yet people, and rats).





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