Sam Harrell's Stem Cell Journey: Stem Cell Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis

Sam Harrell sent us this homemade video documenting his progress from 2010 until now (2014). Sam was coaching football at Ennis high school in Texas when MS struck him hard, forcing him to retire. Since then, after several rounds of stem cell therapy at the Stem Cell Institute in Panama, Sam has returned to coaching football, something he though that he would never be able to do again.

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Sam Harrell demonstrates his progress after receiving umbilical cord stem cells + fat stem cells for multiple sclerosis

Texas high school Hall of Fame football coach Sam Harrell talks about his progress after undergoing several stem cell treatments for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis at the Stem Cell Institute in Panama City, Panama.

Sam is speaking from the clinic in Panama while undergoing his fourth 5-day course of combination human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells and fat-derived stromal vascular fraction cells.

"I came by myself this time and that's just a sign of how much better I've gotten. ...the last times I've come I had to get in a wheel chair [off the plane] and I just walked through the airport this time. People ask me. 'Do you think it really helps?'. Well, just look! I am walking through the airport with no aids." [Sam demonstrates how he used to walk before treatment] "I took little steps. If I needed to turn around, I had to do like this." [Sam demonstrates a slow, shuffling turn] "I don't have a rope but now I can jump rope." [sam demonstates jumping rope and walks quickly around the room demonstrating quick changes in directions] "Before, I couldn't jump rope. I couldn't do any of that. Now I can do those things. I used to have to think about my steps. I'd have to think about right leg, and left leg and now I don't have to think. I catch myself doing that. I walk somewhere and I think, 'hey I didn't have to think about walking from there to there. I just got up and walked like I used to. Now I can make quick moves. I couldn't do any of that before."

"...I coached football and I had to retire. I never thought I'd coach football again. Just this last year, I coached football again. Amazing. I thought I would never do that again. I coached this past year and I plan on doing it again. I'm thank to the Stem Cell Institute in Panama and I am thankful to God above. He's smiling on me too. It's an amazing story, I think."

Sam Harrell Texas High School Football Hall of Fame: http://www.brownwoodnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10918:harrell-to-be-inducted-into-the-texas-high-school-football-hall-of-fame&catid=39:sports&Itemid=62

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Saturday, March 31 was the annual MS Walk in Ft Worth. This year, thanks to the Stem Cell Institute and some of the area stem cell patients, several of us MS sufferers and stem cell patients met for the Walk. Here’s a picture of several of us who have been to Panama, or Costa Rica, for treatments – (from L – R) Richard, Carolyn, Shelley, Carla, Judi, Holly, and me. We wanted to give the Stem Cell Institute a presence in that sea of MS victims and caregivers. I wish all of them knew that many of us in those blue t-shirts were there walking, actually completing the whole mile, even though we were once unable to do such. I wanted to grab that microphone that the organizers were using and tell all of them “There is HOPE – it doesn’t have to be what you hear from your doctors so often. It can be more than ‘Let’s keep taking this medication so you might get worse at a slower rate’ ” I personally never heard about the possibility of actually improving when I went to good doctors here in the US – but I chose to try the Stem Cell treatment in Panama, and I walked that mile on Saturday! A year ago, six months ago, I couldn’t have done that – but after my third trip to Panama in September, my walking, my balance, and my stamina all improved dramatically. And many of those in our group on Saturday have a similar story; some results more dramatic than others, but most all of us have seen and felt the changes that give us that Hope that all of those sufferers at the Walk are looking for. THANKS STEM CELL INSTITUTE! Sam Harrell Sam in Panama