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Details on Tarek El Moussa's Back Procedure

We now know that {Fat Stem Cells are} not just spare tissue but rather a vigorous tissue capable of regenerating.

Flip or Flop host Tarek El Moussa has undergone a controversial stem cell procedure using liposuction to fix a “very scary back injury.”

The HGTV host and real estate investor recently broke the news on Instagram — along with pretty graphic photos — writing, “Well folks!!!!! As you know I’m desperate to fix my back so…..I did STEM CELL surgery today!! It’s CRAZY!!!”

El Moussa also Instagrammed revealing photos of his back postsurgery, writing: “The aftermath is….well not so bad?. Here it is I’m a “little sore” but wow…my back is actually feeling better!!! I’m so hopeful that in a few weeks I will have a major improvement…I’ve always been told “pain is weakness leaving the body”..at this point I think I’m out of weakness….what do you think folks…not so bad??”

Stem cells are a group of cells with the power to morph into various specialized cells that, according to the National Institutes of Health, “serve as a sort of internal repair system” replenishing other cells that serve vital organs.

Stem cells are typically extracted from bone marrow or neural or fetal tissue to treat a variety of medical conditions, and the latter method, which often uses cells from abortions, has sparked a debate between anti-abortion and pro-abortion-rights camps.

However, using stem cells from fat to treat pain is novel. “Fat is an excellent place to source stem cells,” Brent Concolino, president of the Rock Institute in Newport Beach, Calif., which performed the surgery on El Moussa, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “The cells from fat are healthy, plentiful, highly anti-inflammatory, and nearly painless to extract. Specifically, we extract stromal vascular fraction (SVF) from the tissue surrounding fat, which contains four types of stem cells.”

Marc Hedrick, MD, a pediatric plastic surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles, also told ABC News in April, “Fat is not the tissue we once thought. For too long it was seen as something to be removed and tossed away. We weren’t seeing its potential. We now know that it’s not just spare tissue but rather a vigorous tissue capable of regenerating.”

In patients like El Moussa who have degenerative back conditions, SVF is being studied to reduce spasms and inflammation, and accelerate healing, says Concolino.

The process, which takes from two to three hours, is similar to liposuction except patients are put under local anesthesia and doctors remove less than two ounces of fat to obtain the SVF. However, the price tag is comparable — the procedure can range between $6,000 and $10,000. “We store the patient’s fat, usually from his abdomen, with a special sterile harvesting technology and the fast extraction itself takes about 20 minutes,” says Concolino. After the stem cells are deposited back into the patient, they start repairing tissue and forming new blood vessels on cartilage and bone.

But the procedure is open to debate. “The FDA has recently issued language that would classify SVF from the fat in your own body as a drug and physicians are now fighting to be able to continue using it on patients as a surgical procedure,” says Concolino. “However, SVF would never come in a bottle like a pharmaceutical since it has to be made fresh on location in the operating room from a person’s body and used immediately.”

To find out more, read here: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/controversial-stem-cell-treatment-tarek-el-moussa-got-heal-back-pain-195934367.html

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