StemCell Therapy

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Sidelined jockey Eibar Coa had plans
to leave Florida on Saturday for Panama, where he will undergo
stem cell treatment for the next four weeks.

“I’m still slow on my right side, have trouble with my bowel
and bladder and have neck pain,” said Coa, who has made a
miraculous recovery after being left temporarily paralyzed in a
riding mishap here one year ago. “I’m going to receive a series
of 16 injections in my spinal cord that are supposed to
regenerate and reconnect some of my damaged cells.”

Coa said the treatment is similar to what his friend and former
riding colleague Rene Douglas, who was paralyzed from the neck
down in a riding incident at Arlington Park several years ago,
previously underwent in Panama.

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