My name is Àngels Mach Buch. I am 67 years old. I am a pharmacist specialist in clinical analysis, but I have dedicated 33 years to office pharmacy. And I am the president of the Andor Society uh of sciences, which is a nonprofit cultural scientific association dedicated to organizing conferences, seminars, congresses.
What other medical solutions had you tried before stem cell treatment?
I had tried physiootherapy. I had tried hyaluronic acid infiltrations, nine in each knee, three at a time, also corticooid infiltrations, but they lasted for a while and then the pain would return.
How do you know about Celular Clinic and what motivates you to have the treatment?
Being the president of the Andor Society of Sciences after the death of my spouse, I usually attend the research seminars held at the University of Andorra. I went and attended one of the seminars where Dr. Boada was presenting the progress of her doctoral thesis and I saw uh that this was really a good idea for me to try and to contribute to the clinical trial.
When did you notice improvement?
It was really a very good idea because after a month I already noticed a significant improvement in both knees and the pain index had decreased uh uh by two units and it was really an improvement that I noticed right from the start and that has continued to improve over time.
After a year it had already improved a lot and right now four years later I can really make efforts that I hadn’t been able to do for many years before.
4 years have passed. How would you describe your current condition and how has your quality of life changed?
I have improved a lot.
My knees had no cartilage. The left knee, it didn’t have any. No, it didn’t have any. And uh the right knee had a small piece which was what threw me off balance. And after the treatment, besides the pain, I have been able to exert more effort than I could initially in the first month. So during the first year, I was even able to sit on the beach this summer when I couldn’t sit before. I had to kneel and turn around of course because I have really improved a lot.
Do you think this procedure could be beneficial for other patients with osteoarthritis of the knee?
I am very happy to have undergone the treatment and I recommend it to everyone who has pain especially those who have tried other methods and haven’t really improved because maybe it may not work for everyone but you have to try it because the improvement is really considerable.
