Many practicing orthopedic surgeons now offer regenerative cell therapy treatments for the management of chronic conditions. Musculoskeletal injuries can be painful and limit daily activities. In the past two decades, cell therapy has become more recognized for use in orthopedics. Regenerative medicine treatments can be used when other conventional forms of treatment have failed, such as cortisone or gel injections, physical therapy, or prior surgery.
Regenerative cells are Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) taken from a Bone Marrow Aspiration (BMA). A Bone Marrow Aspiration for regenerative cells is performed by an orthopedic surgeon. It is a simple procedure that can be performed in the office with local anesthetic or as an outpatient procedure under IV sedation from an Anesthesiologist.
Using your body’s platelets drawn from blood, cells are harvested from bone marrow and are injected into your injured area(s). This has been shown to decrease inflammation and pain, stimulate healing, and speed repair for bone, muscle, joint, ligament and soft tissue injuries. Physicians and their patients have witnessed the unique ability of regenerative cells to work directly at an injury site to increase healing and dramatically reduce inflammation and pain.
If you would like more information or believe you are a candidate for this type of therapy, please call our offices at 800.824.9861.
Prior to being driven to the office, you will have been prescribed a pain or anxiety medication. There is slight discomfort or pressure in obtaining the bone marrow and this is minimized by medication. Using ultrasound guidance to ensure accuracy, an experienced orthopedic surgeon will remove some of your bone marrow from the back of the pelvis or other bone site. In either our office or an outpatient facility, the blood is placed into a centrifuge device that will separate the cells from the bone marrow.
You will receive an anesthetic in the area to which the cells will be injected. The cells will then be injected with ultrasound guidance, back into your body into the area of injury or damage, to aid in natural healing. The entire procedure will take one to two hours. You should have very little, if any, recollection of the procedure itself.
In many instances, a blood draw from the arm for platelets may be added to the procedure. This is performed to add cells from blood that have additional healing factors.
