Recently there is a surge of sportsmen, especially football players (soccer for americans), that are undergoing placenta treatment. Googling it didn't give much as it is a fairly new (and also controversial) treatment allegedly founder by a Serbian doctor, Mariana Kovacevic.
First it was Arsenal's Robin van Persie, now half a dozen more Premier League stars are making the pilgrimage to Serbia for treatment with "placental fluid".
The placenta is the tissue that attaches the baby via the umbilical cord to the wall of the womb, and is delivered as the afterbirth. It does not contain fluid, but is surrounded by amniotic fluid in which the baby swims while in the womb.
How rubbing this fluid, or any part of the placenta, on to an injured ankle could hasten its repair is anybody's guess. For the team doctors only one thing matters: that it does no harm. As it is unlikely to do anything, they will feel reassured.
Well, I certainly need some of this treatment too as my neck and shoulder pain is killing me everyday. Until this treatment or ointment is available in the general public, I will have to rely on good 'ol natural human masseur.
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