I think I read somewhere that Cole's injury levelis a C6.

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> Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:23 pm (PST)
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> Great accomplishment. You can see him really working at it.
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> Does anyone know what level Cole's injury was?
>
> thanks,
> Deac
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> > Here it is again just in case everyone else had the same issue I did
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> > Cole to receive more stem cell treatments
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> > Terry Cole stands in the parallell bars during therapy session with
> Brooke
> > Reed, left, and Tracy Davied.
> >
> > SIKESTON - Nearly five months after receiving stem cell treatments,
> Terry
> > Cole is standing - something he hasn't been able to do in 32 years.
> >
> > Cole uses parallel bars to support upper extremities, but he uses
> his own
> > strength and weight to stand, which is a feat in itself.
> >
> > "It's hard to explain (how it feels to stand again) because I didn't
> know
> > this would happen. I've always hoped there'd be a cure some day -
> and they
> > don't have a cure yet - but I'm just gonna take it a day at a
> time," the
> > Sikeston man said.
> >
> > For Cole, who has been paralyzed since he was 19, standing has
> been a
> > gradual process over the past few months.
> >
> > "The first time we tried to get him to stand up, he lasted for 10
> seconds.
> > He has stood at one point for 10 minutes," said Cole's occupational
> > therapist Brooke Reed of Ozark Therapy in Sikeston.
> >
> > Cole's therapists, Reed and physical therapist Tracy Davied, used
> techniques
> > that involved Cole gradually working his way into a standing frame.
> Then the
> > therapists started taking parts of the stability of the standing
> frame away.
> >
> >
> > "When they told me I was going to be doing the parallel bars, I
> thought
> > there was no way. I thought they'd lost their minds," Cole said
> about his
> > therapists.
> >
> > Now Cole can stand in the parallel bars with assistance from two
> people
> > instead of the four he started with.
> >
> > Of course, standing would never have been an option for Cole had
> he not
> > received the stem cell treatments.
> >
> > Last November Cole and his wife, Cindy, traveled to Shenzhen, China,
> which
> > is near Hong Kong, where he was the subject of a study involving a
> procedure
> > using umbilical cord blood stem cells, which are harvested from
> umbilical
> > cord blood after a baby is born.
> >
> > Throughout his stay, Cole took four injections of about 10
> million stem
> > cells each and one IV into the spinal cord fluid.
> >
> > On Saturday Cole will head back to China to receive five more
> stem cell
> > injections.
> >
> > "Two days before we left China, the doctor told me if I would come
> back in
> > three to six months, he thought he could help me more," Cole said.
> >
> > Cole and his wife made the decision to go back to China for
> treatment based
> > on his progress made over the past few months.
> >
> > "He didn't want to get to a point where he wasn't making progress
> and then
> > go back for fear of hitting a plateau. He wanted to go back before
> he hit
> > that level of not getting anywhere else," Reed said.
> >
> > Stem cells regenerate for six months so there is a time frame to see
> > improvements.
> >
> > "He's not lost anything that he's come back to; it's a gradual
> gain," Reed
> > said. Since returning from his first treatment Cole has, in general,
> > increased his motion and strength - more so on his left side - and
> activity
> > tolerance for functional activities, his therapists said.
> >
> > The biggest challenge facing Cole's therapists after receiving his
> > treatments was deciding what areas to address because there were so
> many -
> > from fingers, toes and knees to hips, back and neck.
> >
> > "For Tracy and me, it was a big issue to not let him lose
> confidence in
> > himself and in us so we didn't want to start with something he would
> 'fail'
> > at. We wanted to see that success and build on that success," Reed
> said.
> >
> > Ultimately the therapists focused on getting Cole to stand.
> >
> > "It was very exciting at first because the first month or so you're
> seeing
> > things you've never seen before," Reed said.
> >
> > Through his daily therapy sessions, Cole has gained in his finger
> movement,
> > wrist strength, trunk strength and abdominal strength. He can move
> his toes
> > and lift up his heels. Of all his improvements, standing is
> probably the
> > most visible one, his therapists said.
> >
> > Since so much remains unknown about stem cell research, the
> therapists had
> > no idea what to expect when their patient returned.
> >
> > "I am pleased and I want to see more improvements. I'm looking
> forward to
> > him coming back and getting more," Reed said.
> >
> > Cole and his wife will return home from his second round of
> treatment May
> > 19.
> >
> > "His next step is getting him to actually take a step," Reed said.
> >
> > Cole said it'd be great to start taking steps at some point, but for
> now,
> > he's taking it one treatment at a time.
> >
> > "I'm just gonna keep working," Cole said. "And whatever I get
> back, I'm
> > gonna be thankful for."
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