Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) results in direct and indirect damage to neural tissues, which results in motor and sensory dysfunction, dystonia, and pathological reflex that ultimately lead to paraplegia or tetraplegia. Despite various medical developments, there are currently no effective regenerative treatments. Stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for SCI due to its multiple targets and reactivity benefits by injecting autologous bone marrow derived stem cells collected from the patient’s iliac crest and is a therapeutic strategy since it has been shown to have neuroprotective and axon-regeneration-promoting properties.

The transplantation stage takes place via 3 routes:

– Intravenous and intrathecal via lumbar puncture. This procedure takes 3 to 4 days, with prices ranging from 25,000 USD to 36,700 USD for both intravenous and intrathecal routes.

– Surgical Implantation of Stem Cell Gel. With prices ranging from 32,000 USD to 47,500 USD including 2 weeks of hospital stay supported by an intravenous stem cell transplantation.