Episode 297: The Stem Cell Machine
with with Dr. Matt DiDuro
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Dr. Matt DiDuro is here to talk about the emerging technology of Tissue Regeneration Technologies otherwise known as TRT, and how this stem cell machine is being used to help accelerate the body’s natural healing ability.
You'll learn why professional sports teams are implementing this therapy to accelerate healing in athletes, as well as how effective it can be when targeting bone, cardiac, neural & vascular tissue. This remarkable device was also pivotal in my son Daniel's healing after his accident. I can't wait for you to hear all about it.
More about Dr. DiDuro:
Dr DiDuro is a member & past president of Neuropathy Treatment centers of America. He has helped train over 600 clinics around the country. He is an international speaker & one of the premier researchers in the southeast on Peripheral neuropathy. He has been married to his wife, Sherri, for over 27 years & they have 3 daughters, Isabella, Emma & Annalia.
Transcript:
Dr. Pompa:
I say this a few times. This is an episode you're going to want to share. Of course you're going to want to watch it. Look, I brought Dr. Matt DiDuro on who introduced to me a stem-cell machine. I was so skeptical, I said, “Just send me the research.” You'll hear the whole story. He sent me the research. From there, you have to hear this story on this episode
of what happened.
Now, we're putting these in centers, our Health Centers of the Future, around the country. This device, it will change your life. Wait till you see. Wait till you hear the stories, one of which is ending up on The Doctors and airing in November. You'll see. This is something, again, you're going to want to know about, hear about, and we're also connecting you to where you can get this done as well. Stay tuned for cell TV.
Ashley Smith:
Hello everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I'm Ashley Smith, and today we welcome Dr. Matt Diduro, who brings over 25 years of experience in health care. Dr. Matt is here to talk about the emerging technology of tissue regeneration technologies, otherwise known as TRT, and how the stem cell machine is being used to help accelerate the body's natural healing ability. This is a really remarkable therapy. Let's get started so we can learn all about it. Practitioners, please check out the notes, so you can learn how to incorporate this into your practice. Welcome Dr. Matt, and of course Dr. Pompa.
Dr. Pompa:
Welcome, Dr. Matt. Thank you for being on Cell TV. I'm so excited for this topic. Wait till people hear this.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
I'm excited too Doc, and thanks so much for giving us a platform. Honestly, you were one of the first Doc's in the country that actually embraced this technology. I'm so grateful for that opportunity.
Dr. Pompa:
Let me tell that story, man. I don't embrace things lightly. I go through a process when I look at something because people are bringing me things. Everyone brings me everything. I developed a process on what to do to really vet things. You showed up with the device, my seminar – where was it, Nashville I guess?
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yes.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Nashville. I was going to say Atlanta because you're from Atlanta. I was like, I didn't do a seminar in Atlanta. You showed up with the device. You used it on me and a couple other people. I went and dragged a guy I that I said if it works on him, if we can get him treated because he has a nasty neuropathy in a toe because he has kidney transplants, the whole thing.
Here was the interesting thing why I thought he was the best test case because I know everything Doctor Hank did for this toe. He had some other issues going, one of which is you know a personal issue, so I don't want to say it. I'll just say this, both of those issues were not clearing up with all of the best technology. Hank's an amazing doctor and has access to amazing practitioners and devices and everything. He does everything. We put it to the test.
You made someone – you hooked him up with someone in California. They worked and treated Hank. It healed his toe. I was impressed. When I saw his toe, I was like, oh, my God. Then it worked on a lot of other things with Hank. Then it went to the next step where we opened it up, we tried it on some other cases, different people, and other doctors. It was just outstanding results to the point where we said, okay, this has to be part of a health center the future.
I was just on a call, yesterday. Ashley was on the call with me. I was just telling you about it. The doctors in our group, now, that have these things, they were telling story after story, I mean, just unbelievable stories. It's like where all the other doctors don't have one, it's like, okay, we're getting one of these things. I hope we've got your interest. What the heck are we talking about, stem cell machine? All right, Matt, bring us back. What is the stem cell machine and this tissue regenerative therapy?
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
It starts off about forty years ago. This is really a lithotripsy device. What is a lithotripsy device? It is the device that are $550,000 that hospitals use to break up kidney stones. Those are high intensity. They use about 2,500 shockwaves pointed directly at that kidney stone. They use heat, light, and electrohydraulically produced shockwaves or sound waves that penetrate through the body. Then when they hit that stone, they break it up.
This is low intensity. You don't need anesthesiology. You don't need to be under anesthetics. You actually have this device that is a mobile, so it's about 20% of the strength of those big lithotripsies. It's been around for the last nine years, and really just starting to take traction in the last few years. We're so excited because this technology is what we're finding is it creates a – it talks – it's a cellular signaling basically. I mean, you've seen the research. You poured through. I know there's over 120 peer-reviewed studies. I sent him to you. I know you went through them.
Dr. Pompa:
Yep, hours, because that's actually step one for me is I look through the studies. Then step two is testing the device. Before you even came to Nashville to that seminar, I had already been through most of the studies for me even to be interested. Yeah, go ahead.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
It really activates your natural biological healing. First, within 45 minutes, it brings those resident stem cells out of this dormant level. We've been cleared by the FDA to help decrease pain and improve circulation, so that's awesome. Really, the amazing thing, this is an unfocused, low intensity. What it does is it decreases inflammation better than anything I've seen in the last 25 years.
It's very versatile. I mean, it was started using on plantar fasciitis, things like that, heel spurs. In Austria, which has probably the best work comp system, or healthcare system, in the world. They've been using it for the last ten years. Wolfgang Shagun [00:06:50 ph], he was a worker back ten years ago, just a doctor in one of the centers.
What happens in Austria is if you're injured, and they don't offer that type of care for you, they will fly you or send you to anywhere in the world to have that procedure done. They'll pay for it. After numerous patients going down into Germany to have this therapy done –
Dr. Pompa:
This is out of Germany, this device [00:07:17].
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
That's right. MTS is our parent company. After patients going down, and mostly for non-healing fractures. These were fractures and the lower extremities that weren't healing. The Director of the Work Comp Board said, “Listen I want to get one of these devices for 90 days. Dr. Wolfgang, you're in charge of proving that this thing is a sham.” They took all their bad patients, and they started bringing them in.
Within 45 days, Dr. Wolfgang came back to his Director and said, “I can't live without this device. It's so versatile, from wound healing, to the non-healing fractures, to high ankle sprains, you name it. Dr. Wolfgang is now the Director of the Austrian Work Comp System, ten years later. They have this device in every trauma center, all 11 centers, across their country.
The wild thing is within 72 hours of any spinal cord injuries, they're having this treatment done. This started July of 2018. It was a mandate that their health company decided – their health system decided to do. In a small pilot study, the early results show a 50% reduction in spinal cord paralysis.
Dr. Pompa:
Two personal stories, one I had this posterior knee thing that I couldn't get stem cells back to it. It wasn't healing, whereas my medial meniscus stem cells fixed it. This area was not healing. The stem surge was the transformation, for me, on that. Another personal story is my son, Daniel. As you know, he jumped off a 60-foot cliff. Unfortunately, ten feet out of the water was another out cliff. Dropped 50 feet and hit, boom, on his heel first and then right on his butt. He fractured his spine. He had a double chance fracture, the worst.
Eighty percent of these cases end up in paralysis. He should have been dead. For 50 feet, he was almost at terminal velocity. He should have been dead. I mean, a centimeter more in forward or backwards, he would have been dead. He should have been dead or paralyzed. He was neither, so God the glory there because that was a miracle. We did, probably, I don't know, five, six different devices on him because we didn't choose the surgery. They were basically like, “Look, he's going to be in bed for 12 to 15 weeks. Unless you get this surgery, he'll be in bed for a month.”
We didn't get the surgery. In two weeks, he was walking, a complete healing. Matter fact, the doctors, at two weeks, did an x-ray just to see because they said, “Look, if you're not going to this surgery, there's no way with these fractures. They're two floating vertebra that the spine would even hold. In two weeks, we're going to do another x-ray just to see if it can hold it all. He looked at my son and said, “Daniel, I don't want to get your hopes up because there's no way that this is going to hold.”
We did that post x-ray, and not only did it hold, they were like, “Holy cow. The one surgeon was – she said, “Well, look, I was a big naysayer.” There was four different surgeons. She's like, “but I have to say I eat my words.” Daniel literally just got back from Europe, as you know. Here we at the 12-week mark and not only is he walking, he was walking, literally, in two or three weeks, which they said would take four weeks. The point is is part of that success was the [00:11:01]. We were getting it done once a week on him, which is pretty much a standard protocol.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Right, and that's the cool thing about this. It's you don't need a dozen sessions. We find that within three to four treatments on a specific area, we're getting the maximum amount of pain relief, but also the maximum amount of stem cell migration. Not only does it decrease the inflammation, decrease pain, improve circulation, but eight to ten weeks after treatment, we're seeing stem cell migration to that area, that treated area. It's really such a versatile device.
By the way, I have to give a shout out to Daniel because he was traveling with Olivia, and came through Atlanta in late February, early March. I had treated him and showed him the patient – the stroke patient who hadn't moved his hand in 20 years. I treated Daniel. He got off the phone. He FaceTimed with you right away. I had been waiting a year and a half to try to talk to you. Daniel made one call, that's all. He got you on the phone. You said, “All right, it sounds interesting. Send me the research. Daniel has really helped get this ball rolling.
Dr. Pompa:
The irony is is it's one of the things that saved his spine. I mean, it's just the amount of healing. It's just unbelievable. I mean, he's – no brace. I mean, they cleared him Matt. They were like, “He's healed. He can go to Europe.” The doctors are shaking their heads. Listen, the versatility of this, I think, is important to talk about because one of the big breakthroughs, too, is one of the top urologists in the country is using this. Talk about that, and what is he using it for because people are
spending a lot of money on drugs for erectile dysfunction, nightly urination problems. I mean, go on, the list is – and so talk about that.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yeah, so I mean, across the country, erectile dysfunction is on the rise. It goes in correlation with the rise in Type II diabetes. That's what I work on here in our clinic is Type II diabetics. We work with diabetic and peripheral neuropathy. That's our specialty. Dr. Goldstein, in San Diego, who is Past President of one of the major American neurology societies, He's had it since about April. He went from using one of those radial devices that kind of –
Dr. Pompa:
Don't talk about that because those are not the same.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
No, they're not. What we're using is a true, genuine, lithotripsy device. It's called extracorporeal shock wave therapy. I don't want doctors – I notice what they do. I've seen over the last two years they Google shock wave therapy, they see the price of our device, they see the cheaper one. Then they go and they buy. I'm like, don't make that $25,000 mistake. They have, listen, I mean, they have about one-eighth of our biological effects. They actually create trauma. You have to use a numbing cream. Then it tricks the body in thinking there's a new injury.
Dr. Pompa:
Remember the story that I was afraid of your machine because somebody did a radial device in my neck. My hearing was never the same. It created a ringing and a buzzing in my ear. Actually, this machine, your machine actually fixed that ringing in my ear for the most part. I mean, it's so slight now. It happened right after that it. It traumatized my nerve to my middle ear.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
I mean, they're getting a 35 to 40% improvement with men with erectile dysfunction. It tends to work better with younger men, but with our device we were seeing about a 60 to 65% improvement with erectile dysfunction. There's no numbing cream used. It's a very easy application. We have a pre-ED and a regular ED program because that's one disease that a lot of males don't want to develop. What we found – and the wonderful thing about Dr. Goldstein is his wife is a clinical researcher.
They have real-time medical statistics going on. One of the things they noticed is our CEO John Warlick was telling Dr. Goldstein, “Do you want to improve your results? Do you want to go from 65% to higher?” Dr. Goldstein is like, “Yeah, what do we need to do?” We started showing him our low back, or our lumbar plexus protocol. We do about a thousand to 1,500 shock waves right around the PSIS and sacral base. All where those L 2, 3, and 4 help keep all those important things off the floor. As we treat that area, now Dr. Goldstein and his wife are reporting 80% success rate with erectile dysfunction, which is just amazing.
We're so excited about it. He just presented in Nashville this past weekend. It was very well accepted. Not only that, he hired a physical therapist to bring in, so that he could actually look at that all his patients low back pain issues. He's working with some really tough conditions that people come from all over the world to work with. One of those conditions is – and I'm going to pull up my notes on it. It's called PGAD. It's called Persistent Genitalia Arousal Disorder. It's basically a condition that every step you take, the female body part is hyper-sensitive and stimulates the genitals to the point of orgasms.
It's orgasms – it's a terrible condition because they have 30, 40 of these orgasms every you know hour. It is painful. It has a terrible, high rate of suicides associated with this condition. The cool thing is Dr. Goldstein has called in a couple of his – he's got two or three patients that have suffered from this. He's used our protocol on these patients, starting in the lumbar spine, okay, mind you, and he's three for three right now.
He's getting ready to write a paper on that. We used the acronym, HEAL, heat, electromagnetic pulse, acoustic generated by electro-hydraulically produce waves, and light. It pairs so well with chiropractors, doc, because we help work with the innate ability to have the body function a higher level.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and all this does is stimulate the own body's healing via stem cells and exosomes, which we've talked a lot about on this show, which is absolutely fascinating. When you say, shockwave, people think, “Oh my God, it sounds so painful.” I have to tell you that on the genitals, which I've had done.
By the way, why would I have it done? I don't have erectile dysfunction. Just doing your testicles raises your testosterone about 20% after one treatment. That's why I had it done. Athletes are doing this for advantage. I mean, didn't they outlaw it in horse racing or something?
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yeah, I mean, this type of technology, electro-hydraulically produced sound waves and lithotripsy devices have been around for over 30 years in horse racing. January of 2018, race officials made it illegal for horses to have this done three days prior to a race because it was a performance-enhancing device. That's why we've treated over 200 NBA players.
The LA Lakers just bought one. The Chicago Cubs have two. The New York Knicks have one. The New York Mets have one and the Memphis Grizzlies. What we're finding is these patients, these professional teams, they're paying millions of dollars to keep these players on the court. The coolest thing is the Cleveland Indians are using it almost as a preventative-type technique.
Dr. Pompa:
You said that, they'll literally do it on a shoulder. You're making my point for me because when you do it – obviously you do it on you know your area there, whether you the genitals. You'd think, my gosh, that would hurt so bad. You don't even feel it. You just feel a little tapping, unlike the radial device, which actually really hurts.
Anyway, let's say you're doing a shoulder. You don't feel it, you don't feel it, and then all of a sudden you feel it because it only affects the damaged tissues. The sport teams are doing it ahead of time. They find the areas that are damaged. That's the area that would have been an injury. They're saving millions of dollars. They'll do it on the knee. You find that sore spot you didn't even know you had. That's what it would have injured. They're doing it before the injury.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
That's true preventative health. We have to look at this as a diagnostic component as well. Again, you run it over normal tissue, no pain. As soon as you get to an area of abnormal tissue, degeneration, inflammation, the patient says, “Right there.” We do have to give a shout out to one of your platinum docs, Doctor Duncan McCollum, because he's really coined this as the Star Trek Medical Scanner. The Tri Core Medical Scanner.
Some of our older listeners out there will probably remember how Dr. McCoy, Bones, had this little Tri Core Medical Scanner. They would run it over an area, and then uh-oh, they'd keep it there. It would help accelerate the healing. Within three minutes, these patients would pop up. They're like, “Oh, what happened?” It's got that ability. It's so futuristic that some people just can't absorb it. You said something to me in Nashville. You're like, “Doc, you're making a lot of claims about this device.”
Dr. Pompa:
When someone makes a claim that it can do this for your genitals. It can raise your testosterone. It can increase libido. That's why a lot of people do it. Then it can fix your shoulder, your knee, your back, your foot. Skepticism goes up. After I started reading the studies, and understanding its stem cell effect, then I got it.
Then I had to see it actually happen. The sports teams aren't stupid. This is a cheap way out. If someone gets injured, this is their first line of defense, and then obviously prevention as well. Duncan, you mentioned Duncan, he told an amazing story, and so did one of my other doctors. By the way folks listening, we'll provide – as a matter of fact, we're going to give your email, correct, Matt?
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
That's right.
Dr. Pompa:
Doctors out there who want one, a device, email Matt. Public out there that want to connect with one of our doctors, or one of the doctors that has one, email Matt. Be kind. Don't make a lengthy email. He'll get back to you. I know Matt. Matt's amazing like that. You've been a blessing to all my doctors. Duncan's story was this lady did it. It was firing her up, just like, “Oh my gosh.”
She came walking back in an hour, two hours later. She was basically like, “Okay, I can't believe the pain relief that I have. What the heck?” She was in pain while she was hitting the bad tissues because she had so much destruction. Then he turned it down to a tolerable level. The fact was, she came back a couple of hours later going, “What did you do to me? I can actually walk without pain.” Then tell Scott's story, Doctor Scott. That story's ending up on The Doctors. Tell that story.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yeah, it will be – it's going to be featured on The Doctors. Again, one of your wonderful doctors, he's got an amazing couple of facilities up in Redding, California in Red Bluff. I have to give kudos to your Docs who are the early adopters. They took a chance on us and your recommendation. Basically, when I was getting ready to train Scott. I fly right in for the day. I work with your team. I make sure everybody's certified in this technology, knows how to handle it.
One of the things he said is, “Who do I have come?” I said, “Doc, bring all – any of your patients who had chronic issues, who haven't been getting better, who have inflammation, degeneration, low back issues, foot drop, whatever it is. Bring those in, and let's use this device.” We literally had them in the waiting room. We were training people. It was an open forum.
One of his associate doctors, Doctor Darren Oiler, his wife, Shannon, who's just a wonderful person, and who's basically suffered for 23 years with back issues after a terrible car accident. Three and a half years ago had back surgery that was somewhat successful but left her with numbness and nerve damage in her left calf and knee. We had her down. She was watching some of the other patients. I said, you've got to feel it to heal it. The people who have the most discomfort during a session actually have the best results and outcome. It was painful. I was right there.
We videotaped everything on Shannon's first session on her low back. She was quite moved. She was a little upset. She had to go compose herself. Then she came back, and she was like, “I don't have pain. I can't believe this. She went home. She drove 20 minutes. She couldn't believe it. She was walking around, and she had this loose – these loose pants on. She kept thinking someone was touching the back of her left calf because she was starting to get feeling within 45 minutes. That was September 10th. We filmed another one on September 18th.
Before her third visit on October 10th, she was doing pirouettes. She was standing on her toes. In the meantime, I'm getting a lot of response from different groups out there. I was in talks with the doctors. They wanted to feature the stem cell machine. They wanted to feature it. Is this the real – is this the next stem cell machine, the way they wanted to pitch it? They wanted me to give a couple of different patients. Shannon was perfect. Her story was real. It had just happened. It was amazing. She was interviewed on The Doctors. Her story is going to be displayed to three to five million people the middle of November. Again, thanks to you, Doc, for helping.
Dr. Pompa:
When I believe in something, man, I'm all in. As a matter of fact, Hank will be getting a machine in Laguna Beach. You said California's Dr. Scott in Redmon, California. Duncan is near San Francisco. Where is he exactly?
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
He's Santa Cruz and Capitola. Amazing, some of his stuff that's coming out. He's got some of the best videos of his patients pre and post. One of them said, “You've got to feel it to heal it.” He's got such great patients that are so bright. We do have to give a shout-out to Dr. Jason West, who's in Utah, who really said to us, both you and I, he said, “Let's just call it what it is. This is the stem cell machine.”
Dr. Pompa:
Did he get his machines yet?
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
He hasn't yet, but his sons keep getting injured. I told him –
Dr. Pompa:
You can fly even to the Salt Lake to get to him. Then Doctor Lee Nagle, where's he – do you know exactly where he is?
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Lee – we've got one in – we've got Sean McHugh down in Jacksonville, Florida, doing some wonderful work. Tammy Stewart is going to be in Grapevine, Texas. She'll be getting hers in the next two weeks.
Dr. Pompa:
We've got another one in Utah. Anyways, there's [00:27:20].
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
If patients, they want to email me –
Dr. Pompa:
Just email Matt. He'll tell you all about Docs who have one and others that are out there. There's not that many, yet, around the country. That's why we're trying to spread the word. We'll connect you with the Docs who have them. Again, doctors, you need one of these in your practice. It's a game changer for a practice, and it's a game changer for the people going to the practice. If you were on my call yesterday, literally, half of my coaching call, 30 minutes was devoted to the stem cell machine, 30 minutes. All the testimonies, this and that, I just sat there and listened, and just how their practice is transforming because of it. Go ahead, you were going to say something.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
One of the things that's been amazing working with this company and bringing this device to a national level is two weeks ago I was up meeting with the Pentagon about getting this device into their Special Operations. I didn't realize it, but the Navy SEALS, and the Delta Force, and some of those Special Ops people, I mean, they have a million dollars invested in each one of these soldiers. If they're injured, or down, they're losing efficiency in these soldiers. They're looking on the performance enhancing side. They actually ask – I mean, it's a 51-pound unit that sits on a desktop. It's mobile. We use it between clinics and things. They want it to be in a 25 pound so they can put it in their ruck pack, and they can run it out into an area.
We're really excited about working with them. The other thing while I was up in DC, I met with one of President Trump's – an advisor to his Opioid Czar, Dr. John Rosa. I told Dr. John, I said, “Do you really want a tool to fight the opioid epidemic? This is it.” He goes, “What do you mean?” I go, “I call it the opioid buster because not only will it disintegrate the pills, but what it will do is it gets to the root source of the pain, why these people are on it.”
I have to give another shout out to Doctor John Mullins. He's a Plastic Surgeon and a Wound Care Specialist here in Atlanta at Piedmont Hospital. He's had it in his clinic since July 2018. He's doing some wonderful work. The coolest thing is, since using it, he's guestimating he's got a 70% reduction in his opioid writing. He's using it right after surgery. He talked on my show, my podcast is Free My Pain Now. We have a YouTube channel as well. It's called Free My Pain Now with Doctor Matt DiDuro.
In that, he actually talks about one of his breast augmentation patients who had lost sensation around her right nipple. Within two treatments, not only did she get her sensation back, but she got the erectile function back. That's one of the things. We actually have a patent for neural elongation or accelerating peripheral nerve regeneration. How many companies can say that? Now, we're documenting these case studies. I'm so excited because Doctor John Mullins is also working with the Cardiology Department at Piedmont. Do you know what an LVAD machine is, Doc? Do you remember what that is?
Dr. Pompa:
No, LVAC?
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
LVAD, it's a Left Ventricular Assist Device. It's for patients with congestive heart failure waiting for a heart transplant. They have this mechanical pump that's outside their body with an internal lead that goes in to help pump the left ventricle. They either die because they don't get a heart transplant, or they get an infection to that line going in. Doctor Mullins is two for two right now. The patients, when they get this infection, it's typically deadly.
They have to go on Cipro and all these strong antibiotics. That alone can kill them, kind of like Doctor Hank Williams. What we're noticing, and I can show you a patient, Mr. Cobb, unbelievable. One treatment, which was painful as heck, and it was able to kill that bacterial infection. He's now still on the heart transplant list. This has an antimicrobial effect as well.
Dr. Pompa:
I was just going to say that's another cool part. One of the things we're starting to do is cavitations, these hidden infections. We're starting to use it for that. We want to do more with that with our dentists in our program. Yeah, it has an antiviral, antibacterial effect. Explain that a little bit, which is, again, another reason why it helps so many different conditions.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
It's so cool. We've used it on infected dog bites, infected spider bites. My dog got bit by a copperhead snake Labor Day. They were going to amputate a couple of his toes. Our Medical Director said, “Let's use the shockwave.” We did three days in a row. It was necrotizing fasciitis. Again, I wouldn't believe it if I didn't do it myself.
Again, it's signaling all these other helper cells. On a cellular level, it's activating and signaling for [00:32:59] that come in there. They start fighting and really calling for all these other helper cells to come and fight that infection and decrease that inflammation.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it's amazing. Again, I hope – you're going to get a lot of emails. I'm going to tell you that now.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Good.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. It's your passion to bring it, man, [00:33:26]. You're in Atlanta, by the way.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
I'm in Atlanta. We've been working with diabetic and neuropathy patients for the last 11 years. We see over 900 new neuropathy patients per year. We were a niche marketing up until two years ago when I brought this clinic in. I will tell you that prior to this, we had a very good success rate, about 90% patient satisfaction rate. When I brought it into my clinic, it was really on the 10% of the patients who weren't benefiting from our traditional care. I started using it just on them.
I almost had a guarantee policy. If patients bought these photo biomodulation lights, and they didn't see results, or they didn't have 20% improvement after two months, then I would buy them back. In 2017, I think we bought back almost $22,000 worth of [00:34:21] packs. I started using this on September 11, 2017 on my first patient, Carol Roland, and it was a game changer. She went from 8% improvement to 38% improvement in three weeks. Then I started – at the first of the year, I started using it on all of our neuropathy patients.
We haven't had one – we had bought one back on a patient who had passed away. We bought it from the family. It saved me tens of thousands of dollars. It's doubled our improvements. I was telling you earlier, we're working with Dr. Jesse Martin, she's a Ph.D. Researcher out of Georgia Tech. She's helping compile this data. Every patient that comes through could be its own case study. Prior to adding the stem cell machine, we had about a 20% improvement in the sensory nerves that are just underneath the skin.
Since adding just three sessions to each foot over a five-week period, we're not at 38% improvement. She's compiling this data. Not to mention, their balance is improving. Sixty percent of your balance comes from your feet. A lot of our diabetics haven't been walking and moving properly. Now, their [00:35:36] is improving, and their feet are communicating with their brain and nervous system. From that standpoint, I'm looking to present this in Vienna at the International Shockwave Symposium in June of 2020.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it's awesome. Dr. Matt, I so appreciate you coming on Cell TV. I said at the top of the show how excited I am to bring this information. Nobody, like I said, has really heard about it. My goal is to get all of my Health Centers of the Future doctors having the device, which we're doing. We have to keep up with manufacturing.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yeah, exactly, that's our biggest thing. You're aligned with my vision, Doc. I want this in every major city across the country. Your doctors are really years ahead of the rest of these doctors. Just to see – when I was out visiting you in August at your mastermind seminar, and everything you had there, working on Daniel, to help speed and accelerate his healing. I mean, you said it best. All of our Health Centers of the Future have to have these devices. It's as simple as that.
Dr. Pompa:
Everything I did on my son should be in every Health Center of the Future. It should. That's my goal. I'm training doctors on my detox, my cellular work that I have 20 years teaching. These devices need to be part of that protocol and everything we're doing. That's what we're doing, man, teaming up with you.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Listen, you are the father of functional medicine for a lot of healthcare people. You brought this to our profession and our health care system. People forget to thank you, sometimes. Our communities are very sick. The tools you're putting out there for your doctors are helping, basically, one person at a time. The more people we have that can bring this to a national level, the healthier our communities are going to be. I'm glad to be able to partner with you on this and bring this.
Dr. Pompa:
We appreciate it. Folks, you need to share this episode. Honestly, how often do I ask you to do that? Rarely, maybe a few times, but so many people need this. It's such an inexpensive solution to really serious conditions. Share this episode, pass it on, and Docs, get one in your office. Email Matt. Thanks, Matt, I appreciate you coming on.
Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Thank you, Dr. Pompa, I really appreciate your time.
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