Hi, this is Dr. Kevin Lam of NaplesPodiatrist.com. This is something that I've been dealing with for
the last couple of months, I went back into the ring of karate after 20 years of being outside
the ring, thinking I'm 18 years old again fighting in karate tournaments. As you can see back on the
wall right there you see me flying up in the sky doing all my wonderful kicks. Back then I used to
compete in karate tournaments, international as well as the collegiate level. Well,
that was 20 years ago. My kids brought me back onto the tournament circuit so Daddy
trying to prove himself that he is still young, developed numerous hamstring injuries. So since
I deal with a lot of athletes and I do stem cell injection for athletes, I figured might
as well do it for myself. I'm recovering from my hamstring injury a little slower than I used
to and I'm getting ready for the national tournament in karate representing Florida,
proudly representing Florida of 2015 as the highest score for kumite or sparring. Now,
I have my hamstring issue, my last 2 tournaments ago I did an axe kick and I severely strained my
hamstring as well as cause sciatica as well as strain my popliteal nerve which I know very well
since I do local and regional anesthetic along that nerve myself. I was unable to sit for quite
sometime and unable to walk for quite sometime. Now it's 2 months later, the only pain I have
right now is about the area of the semitendinosus and membranosus from my knee,
from the inside of my knee which I'm gonna show you very shortly.
This is very discouraging as a former highly competitive athlete but have
returned back to the ring and going to fight my first national tournament in a very long time.
So I'm gonna give myself a stem cell injection and hopefully feel better,
which I know I will as all my athletes and patients have.
This is the area of pain that I have remaining when I do my fast twitch kick,
my fast round kick, my fast -- what we call a R-kick or a fast round kick off the front leg.
My left leg is the one being shown, pinpoint tenderness is right about here.
When I do my round kick and recoil in a quick recoil method that's when it hurts.
After extension and coming back.
Extension, there's no pain when I do it slow.
Obviously, it's not gonna work in a high velocity karate tournament.
The quick motion of bringing it back is what causes the pain.
So I'm gonna give myself a stem cell injection today right in the area of pain.
So, doctor heal thyself and doctor follows his own orders, his own methods.
Again, amniotic stem cell has been used greatly for joint pain, muscle pain, muscle aches
as well as increase healing.
I'm at the point of needing it for myself
so I make sure I can be at 100% at the national karate tournament.
In here, a local anesthetic, here is the stem cell coming out, it was pretty frozen,
pretty frozen now it's taken out of the vial.
Preparing for my own injection.
The sacrifices I go through for my kids.
We'll go ahead and get the cap, the cap of the needle off.
okay thank you
okay
I'm also right about there, right about there, doctor heal thyself, right? Right about here.
Not so bad at all, 1, 2, 3, pressure.
Stem cell injection right into the muscle.
We only had this for about two months now.
Again, kicking at a karate tournament, actually it's warming up so I beat myself up more than
I beat up my opponents or my opponents beat me up.
So here's the aftermath getting ready for a tournament on the road,
2015 National Championships.
After the injection now, my assistant here is holding on to the injection site right here
at the stem cell injection site.
I'm not crying, everything works out good, now we're gonna let it recover
over the next couple of weeks, I'm gonna continue to stretch it, let it heal.
Again, see you guys at the National Tournament 2015.
Well it's been a day since my stem cell injection into my own hamstring,
my semitendinosus semimembranosus on the medial side of my knee
or on the inside of my knee.
Let's take a look at that right there you see that's my injection site right about here,
again just actually surprisingly no pain right about here.
I actually went to jiu-jitsu class last night and didn't have much symptoms.
I was able to go through the whole class we had a guest instructor, we worked really hard,
a lot of drills and didn't quite feel it. So for those of you who -- especially my competitors
for national competition, I'm back
and so far the stem cell is working on myself, the pain is negligible, hardly even there,
and I'll be back to kicking in no time, full speed.
Stem cell injection on my left hamstring muscle that makes up the hamstring right here
on the inside.
I've been to Jiu jitsu, did some karate practice and sorry for my opponents, I'm feeling great.
So I'm able to do my kicks without a problem,
ready for national tournaments, this without stretching.
So stem cell injection, three days, feeling really good left leg feeling wonderful ready to go.