PROFESSIONAL athletes who opt for an emerging treatment called “blood-spinning” in the hope of healing their injuries faster could fall foul of the World Anti-Doping Agency. The agency ruled last week that the procedure, based on concentrating and re-injecting a person’s own blood, could introduce banned substances into the body.
But proponents of blood-spinning argue that the ruling may deny injured athletes access to a technique that could heal their injuries faster than existing treatments and potentially with fewer complications.
WADA, based in Montreal, Canada, already bans the concentration, storage and re-injection of an athlete’s own red blood cells just…
