What Is Regenerative Medicine?

These days, people are looking for the latest and most advanced treatment options to help improve chronic pain, repair injuries and promote faster healing. Regenerative medicine offers advanced treatments that focus on non-surgical therapies that stimulate the body’s natural healing processes to reduce pain and inflammation and help heal certain injuries. If you are dealing with pain that isn’t responding to pain relievers and is impacting your daily routine and mobility then regenerative medicine may be right for you.

Stem Cell Therapy

One type of regenerative medicine treatment is stem cell therapy. By injecting stem cells into certain areas of the body we can help regenerate bone, tissue, and cartilage by stimulating the body’s natural healing processes. Stem cell therapy can be ideal for people dealing with orthopedic injuries and conditions. 

Buyer Beware:  Stem Cells are only usually derived from bone marrow aspirate.  These uses and treatments of products outlined below are not FDA approved.  Avoid going to a clinic that states they are using Stem Cell Therapy if they are not using your own Bone Marrow Aspirate (BMAC)

Traditional growth factors laden products can be used for some of these issues as well.  The quality of products range by tissue bank (generally donated tissues from post-birth tissues) and need verifications for sterility, donation, and processing.  There is no definitive way to determine if these products have active or live Stem Cells in them.  They are referred to as:  Amniotic Fluid, Placental Products, Wharton's Jelly.  

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy

PRP is collected from your very own blood and then placed into a centrifuge to separate the plasma. Plasma is rich in platelets, which when injected into certain areas of the body can help to repair tissue, tendons, joints, and ligaments. PRP contains both healing components and growth factors, which can help people who are dealing with injuries repair their bodies faster to get rid of pain and improve mobility. PRP therapy is great for:

• Joint and muscle injuries
• Tendinitis
• Arthritis
• Torn tendons
• Hair loss

Prolotherapy

Prolotherapy or proliferation therapy is a non-surgical procedure that helps to repair damaged ligaments, tendons, and muscles by injecting a special solution into the body to trigger the body’s natural healing response. Prolotherapy is most often used to treat ligament and joint injuries, particularly in the knees, hips, and shoulders. Certain chronic conditions may also benefit from the pain-relieving effects of prolotherapy.

Regenerative therapy can be a great way to alleviate severe and chronic forms of pain. If you are dealing with pain that you’re having trouble controlling with other treatment options, regenerative medicine may offer you the effective therapies you’re looking for.