Regenerative Medicine: Truly the Organic Way of Treating Yourself – PRP & Stem Cell Treatment
Orthopedic injuries and arthritis can cause disability and discomfort, keeping you from your daily activities, whether it’s work, sports or exercise, keeping up with your families active lifestyle, or just getting around town. You need some kind of relief and treatment to prevent further injury and restore function.
Lets be honest, allocating your body to heal itself can take a long time.
You have options…
Regenerative medicine uses cutting-edge technology to naturally treat and heal the cause of painful conditions.
Physicians, like those at Michigan Sports & Spine Center offer these state-of-the-art procedures and life-changing treatments to patients in need of restored function, pain relief and care for injuries.
WHAT IS REGENERATIVE MEDICINE?
- Regenerative medicine uses your own body’s tissue to help heal the injury.
- Focuses on natural healing rather than fixing things manually with surgery.
- Bio-cellular grafts are made from your own cells, which are typically harvested from bone marrow or fat tissue.
- Depending on your age, health and condition, you may be a candidate for PRP therapy or stem cell therapy.
Regenerative Injection Therapies (RIT) are cutting-edge injection procedures commonly used to treat the following conditions:
- Back and neck pain
- Osteoarthritis (or degenerative arthritis) of the knee, shoulder, hip and spine
- Joint injuries
- Tennis elbow
- Golfer’s elbow
- Tendinitis
- Ligament, cartilage and tendon injuries
- Arthritic joints
- Chronic plantar fasciitis
- Pelvic pain and instability
- Rotator cuff tears
- ACL injuries
- Trigger points
- Fibromyalgia
Regenerative therapy offers the following benefits:
- Increased healing potential
- Decreased pain
- Increased function
- Quicker recovery time
- Decreased time away from exercise, sports or daily activities
WHAT IS PLATELET RICH PLASMA (PRP) THERAPY?
Platelets normally circulate within the blood stream and are responsible for blood clotting and initiating a healing response in an acute injury. Many acute injuries do not heal adequately and can lead to chronic pain and loss of function of the injured area.
Platelet rich plasma, or PRP is a revolutionary and conservative approach to natural healing for a host of sports injuries and orthopedic conditions. PRP therapy makes it possible to potentially avoid surgery and return to your daily routine, work and athletics sooner.
- PRP is a concentration of your own blood platelets.
- We collect a sample of your blood and spin it down separating the plasma, which contains a high concentration of platelets.
- Platelets play a critical role in healing soft tissue injuries and wounds by activating stem cells to regenerate new, healthy tissue.
- An injection of PRP gives your body a natural boost!
- As a result, the damaged tissue begins to heal. PRP is successful in not only relieving pain, but also in jump-starting the healing process.
Benefits of PRP:
- A low risk, non-invasive treatment.
- It helps orthopedic conditions like tendon injuries, osteoarthritis and ligament injuries anywhere in the body.
- PRP strongly benefits people who are simply not candidates for surgery or want to avoid surgery because of health, age or other concerns.
- Rapid pain relief and healing.
- Regeneration of healthy tissues.
- Minimal down time.
- No incision or scarring.
Stem cell therapy is a completely different process of extracting rejuvenating cells.
WHAT IS STEM CELL THERAPY?
Stem cell therapy can reduce or eliminate the need for surgery and accelerate the healing process. It can also provide long-lasting pain relief. Conditions treated range from basic strains and sprains to degenerative arthritis and back pain.
- For the procedure, stem cells are taken from either bone marrow or fat tissues used in conjunction with platelets.
- Stem cells from bone marrow produce cartilage, and are typically used in treating sports injuries and arthritic conditions.
- Stem cells from fat tissues are utilized with platelets to heal an osteoarthritic joint, such as re-growing cartilage.
- Stem cells are ‘undifferentiated’ cells, which allow them to develop into another type of cell that is required to repair or replace damaged tissue.
- Stem cells are injected into the area of pain or injury in conjunction with platelet rich plasma, or PRP, for added benefit.
Stem cell therapy can repair tissues that are too damaged to heal on their own. Stem cells can stimulate the formation of cartilage, tendon, ligaments, bone and fibrous connective tissues.
Am I a candidate for PRP Therapy or Stem Cell Therapy?
- If you have aches, pains, joint deterioration or an old injury and want to use a natural healing process, you may be a candidate.
- If you’re looking to avoid surgery and get long-lasting relief, Michigan Sports & Spine Center encourages you to learn more about PRP and stem cell therapy and consult with us or another expert.
How long do the procedures take?
- The procedure takes just minutes to perform. All-inclusive from prep through recovery time, only a couple of hours.
- We encourage most of our patients to return to work or go about their usual activities right after the procedure is done.
How often should these procedures be performed?
- As many as three injections may be given within a six-month time frame. However, a large number of people gain considerable, to complete relief after just the first injection!
ABOUT MICHIGAN SPORTS & SPINE CENTER:
We’re innovative leaders utilizing cutting-edge technologies such as musculoskeletal ultrasounds, PRP, stem cell treatment, and other innovative procedures. Michigan Sports & Spine Center is committed to resolving your pain, not simply masking it. We treat the whole body, not just the injury, and perform preventative treatment so your injury doesn’t come back. Our studies prove that Michigan Sports & Spine Center has patient success rates much higher than the national average. We treat everyone from high-profile athletes to your neighbor next door. Our primary focus is getting our patients back into the game of life!