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Dr George Koulouris speaks with 3AW Football - Podcast

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LISTEN: 3AW Football - Interview December 21, 2011

Radiologist Dr George Koulouris speaks with 3AW Football's Gerard Healy and Dwayne Russell about stem cell treatment for tendon injuries in response to the news that Greater Western Sydney GIANTS will send the club’s number one draft pick Jonathon Patton to Europe for treatment on his knee ahead of the 2012 AFL Premiership Season.

GIANTS’ Sports Science Manager John Quinn said Patton would travel to Stockholm in January to visit a world leading specialist to receive further treatment for patellar tendinopathy in his left knee.

 
 

Easy Sell Knee Surgery - Stem cell treatment

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Herald Sun, September 4, 2011

A country footballer has undergone revolutionary knee treatment that has turned heads within AFL ranks.
Stem cell treatment for knee injuries.

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Herald Sun, 04/09/2011

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Tendon relief hope in store

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AT LEAST one AFL footballer is among the first athletes in the world to use revolutionary stem-cell technology to treat a damaged tendon

The treatment involves extracting cells from a healthy tendon, multiplying them in a laboratory, and then injecting them back into the damaged tendon a month later to boost the healing process.

Herald Sun - Tendon relief hope in store

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Stem cell therapy for footy injuries

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Adelaide Advertiser, 11 August 2011

Stem cell technology has been used to successfully treat footballers' tendon injuries.

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Adelaide Advertiser,11/08/2011

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Stem cells show promise mending injured tendons

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Stem cells show promise mending injured tendons

Australian Researchers have devised a new technique for repairing damaged tendons. So far this stem cell technique has been used on 100 patients with promising results.

Autologous tenocyte implantation (ATI) therapy is a treatment approved by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) and used for people suffering recalcitrant tendon injuries.

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