Luiz Fernando was suddenly stuck in the back, living in pain 24 hours a day, despite continuously taking painkillers.
He visited many specialists in Brazil, but the consensus was that he had to live with the pain and that he had a serious risk of ending up in a wheelchair.
Just a few months after being implanted with Cultured Stem Cells he was already able to take his son on a piggyback ride and have a normal life. 10 years later, he tells his story.