RhodyPatriot

Star quarterback Peyton Manning travelled to Europe for controversial stem-cell therapy on ailing neck | Mail Online

Wow!! I'd say his neck problem is much worse than we thought.

Fencer

Best wishes to him! That's for all the usual reasons, plus another one, which is:

I really like that a little bit of the large amount of money spent on sports goes to advancing the frontiers of medicine, in ways that wind up helping more people than professional athletes. So I always like to see an attempt along those lines work out.

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Frankenstien needs a lube job

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goheels22002

He's going to grow a new neck. Here's the after picture:

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Gumby

The part that doesn't sound too optimistic for Manning...

I thought that the main thing healing from the neck fusion was muscles and stiffness and mobility. If he is having to "regenerate nerves"; I would have to think the prognosis is a lot worse than he and the Polian camp have let on to so far.

Ivan

The report is incomplete. Manning is actually having his neck and head regrown in a glass decanter in Europe and he flew there to donate the cells. It should take another 2-4 weeks but then he will have a completely new neck and head and they can simply lop off the old one around the shoulders and snap on the new model. The really good news is that the new set doesn't break when he gets hit it simply flies off and they can snap it back on.

Clearly Manning will be fine, the only question remaining is whether they induct his old neck and head into Canton or whether they go with the traditional bust.

The-Hooded-One

How are stem cells not against league rules? How is that different than using HGH to heal?

RhodyPatriot

That is a very good and very valid question. Granted we know there are rules against HGH use and none against stem cell therapy but your point is spot on. Would love for someone to ask Goodell and Co about this.
Then again is it Peyton Manning so he could receive a bionic neck and the league wouldn't say anything.

ctpatsfan77

IANAL, but I'm guessing that it was approved on the grounds that it is intended solely to be "restorative."

If this were illegal, you could argue that ACL surgery should be illegal, too.

And, FWIW, stem cell therapies are not 100% effective. I'm not even sure they're 50% effective.

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Rob0729

I didn't think this was worthy of a new thread, but Bob Kravitz (you know the guy who ridiculed the Pats for drafting Mallett and praised the Colts for not doing it because Manning was going to play for the next 4-5 years without missing a game) is now calling for the Colts to get Favre out of retirement. I don't think even Favre wants to get involved in the mess that is the Colts.

Kravitz: Collins isn't the answer at QB; who is: Painter, Favre, Luck? | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com