News regarding stem cell therapy has taken a new twist as athletes turn to stem cell banking as an insurance policy. According to a report, noteworthy football (soccer) players are preparing for potential career-threatening sports injuries by banking the stem cells from their newborn babies for prospective future treatment. The banking could help the athletes and also help their entire families in the event of injury.

Cartilage and ligament injuries could be treated in the future as players are freezing the cells derived from the umbilical cords of their babies. Even injured organs and tissue could be regenerated because stem cells are the earliest form of cells. Athletes with heart conditions, broken bones, a torn ACL; essentially an entire plethora of injuries and conditions could be remedied using the umbilical cord cells to perform non-controversial stem cell treatments.

“We decided to store our new baby’s stem cells for possible future therapeutic reasons, both for our children and possibly for myself,