HOWARD, Wis. (WBAY) - After two car accidents left her with serious pain in her neck, back, legs and shoulders, Cindy Kastelic says she was starting to lose hope.

"I'd go to the chiropractor, then I'd go in for myofascial release and acupuncture, and sometimes I would go and spend $150, and within an hour it's like I was hurting again, I just wasted all that money."

Three months ago, Kastelic saw an ad for amniotic stem cell treatment and attended a seminar.

She immediately signed up for a treatment to her neck and lower back.

"Amazing that I could move my neck without being in pain, I could sleep on my left or right side without waking up with a kink in my neck, and my lower back started feeling better.," Kastelic said.

"This isn't something that just popped up overnight. This treatment has been going on for years and years and years," Northwoods Family Physical Medical Clinic director Kim Scarlassara said.

Based in Iron River, Mich., Northwoods Family Physical Medicine just opened a clinic in Howard based, it says, on demand from patients suffering from degenerative joint issues.

"Stem cells are the body's master cells," Scarlassara explained. "They have the ability to become basically any other type of cell in your body, like a bone cell, a ligament cell, a cartilage cell. They have the ability to help your body rebuild, repair and regenerate."

Kastelic was back at the clinic Friday for a stem cell treatment to her knees and shoulders.

She calls it a life-changing procedure without the need for surgery or medication.

Diana Hardy of Northwoods Family Physical Medicine said, "I think overall people don't want any more surgeries and that expense and that risk and side effects and medications, pain medications."

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