Muscle Transplantation: A Case Study

There is a lot to think about when it comes to transplanting muscle fibers. Since there are fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers all over the body within every muscle group, one would have to extract the entire muscle. Then there is the issue with the cells of the tissue staying alive during the process of removal and transplant. However, it is possible to increase the number of muscle fast twitch muscle fibers through surgery, but one will not be able to do so without transferring over some slow twitch muscle fibers. The muscle fibers will also need to be the of the patient’s muscle or longer for success. Yes, muscles have the ability to stretch but stretching is limited. Meanwhile, the muscle will have to bind for attachment until healing occurs and attaches to the origin and insertion sites. Even though this process has a high possibility of succeeding, there are many questions at hand. Muscle transplantation is faced with ethical dilemmas, training concerns, and population accessibilities.

First, there are problems when it comes to ethical dilemmas that will determine the allowed procedure of transplanting fast twitch muscle fibers. One thing people are considering is the necessity of the procedure. Surgery is seen as a must-have process that will allow a patient

People in the athletic world that compete under natural conditions consider transplanting muscle fibers as cheating because it is not natural and the person was not born in this manner. People are born with a certain amount of o fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers. Therefore, changing the amount of fast or slow twitch fibers in any part of the body that is related to medical reasoning is considered cheating. It is the same as blood doping but in a more extreme form. One would not think of allowing transplantation of muscle fibers as a new evolution of training. It will be looked down upon just like an Olympian injecting HGH or testosterone