STEM CELL THERAPY

Stem Cell Therapy Can Provide Surgery-Free Joint Recovery

by Martie Whittekin

While pain relievers might be needed substitution is not as good or as long-lasting at times for joint pain, they all have as the one nature provided. Surgeries run side effects, and none solve the probsometimes-serious risks associated with lem that caused the pain. Drugs seek to anesthesia and potential infection or rejecinterfere with pain perception one way or tion. The cost is high and the recovery another by temporarily suppressing the time is long. The practice of medicine has symptoms. That is also true for injected begun to slowly adopt stem cell therapy as steroid drugs. If the cartilage or cushioning an alternative that is safer, more effective tissue in a joint is missing, the steroid shot and less expensive. Doctors committed to will not replace it. In fact, because steroids patient welfare will find convincing support have side effects that can degenerate joint for stem cell therapy in the large number of tissue, they are generally safe to use only scientific studies showing impressive results. about three times. Stem cell therapy is superior to either

Surgical joint replacements just throw of the mainstream approaches because away the joint and put in a new one. That it rebuilds joints naturally, the same way technology is impressive, but the manmade that they were created before birth. The undifferentiated stem cells not only become whatever type of cell the body needs, they also fight inflammation and signal our immune system and tissues to get busy healing. X-rays show that cushioning reappears even in bone-on-bone knees. Unlike other kinds of therapeutic injections that require precise placement into a joint, stem cells are attracted to the trouble spots.

It is possible to surgically extract adult stem cells from bone marrow or body fat, but those stem cells are not very plentiful, and may mirror the condition of the aging patient. Stem cells are also present in amniotic fluid, but that liquid also contains potential allergens. The most effective, purest stem cells are those from donated human umbilical cords (which would otherwise become medical waste). The donated umbilical cord material is then prepared in tightly controlled U.S. Food and Drug Administration-inspected facilities like blood banks.

There are various grades of quality in finished stem cell products from different providers. The most effective sources carefully monitor stem cell quality, as well as density and vitality.

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Martie Whittekin, CCN, is the host of the Healthy by Nature radio show.

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