People often wonder, are stem cell treatments painful? It depends on what type. The procedures performed to collect some types of stem cells from the body can indeed be painful. For stem cell therapy, samples come from adipose (fat) or bone marrow tissue. The body stores toxins in your fat cells. Because of this we don’t use this therapy. Also, bone marrow collection can be painful, and our patients are in pain already, so we don’t use that method either. We prefer regenerative medicine treatments containing mesenchymal cells.
Many find the cellular treatments performed by our doctors to not be not painful; in fact, regenerative cellular treatments containing mesenchymal stem cells are a natural way to reduce pain associated with many musculoskeletal conditions. Our medical practice offers treatments containing mesenchymal cells as all-natural healing alternatives to invasive surgeries and long-term, addictive and pain-masking medications.
What Is A Stem Cell?
A stem cell is an undifferentiated cell with the potential to regenerate damaged tissue. It aims to heal your body from pain and symptoms associated with musculoskeletal disorders. Stem cells are capable of turning into multiple cell types such as cartilage, tendon, skin, muscle, bone, and more.
Injections containing growth factors and mesenchymal cells for pain potentially resolve many chronic problems that occur due to age and overuse of muscles, bones and ligaments. The therapeutic growth factors in these treatments are excellent for reducing many musculoskeletal condition symptoms.
Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Treatments
Our doctor uses injections containing growth factors and mesenchymal cells. In this type of natural medicine, we only use regenerative cells harvested from Wharton’s jelly .Wharton’s jelly is abundant in young healing cells and active growth factors, and it is safely and ethically collected from umbilical allografts. This procedure takes place at the time of birth without causing harm or pain to the mother or child. We use young, healthy regenerative cells to harness the healing powers of the growth factors and other naturally occurring components they provide.
Regenerative cellular tissue has enormous therapeutic potential for cell regeneration, making it useful for a variety of medical treatments to repair acute and chronic tissue damage.
PRP Injections
Another form of regenerative medicine that our doctor performs comes from platelet-rich plasma, or PRP. To prepare PRP, a small amount of your blood is drawn and placed into a medical device to separate and concentrate your blood platelets. Platelet-rich plasma injections are non-surgical procedures, using naturally occurring components in your blood to stimulate healing.
Plasma, the liquid portion of your blood, is composed of water and proteins. It allows your red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets to circulate throughout your body. Platelets allow the blood to clot and are also responsible for other healing functions. Platelet activation plays a major role in your body's natural healing process. Injections of PRP contain your own blood plasma mixed with your concentrated platelets. These are rich in growth factors and other therapeutic materials vital to initiating and accelerating tissue repair and regeneration.
Growth factors kick-start healing of connective tissue such as bone, tendons and ligaments. The treatment is performed in an outpatient procedure and is relatively short, allowing you to go about your regular routine the same day.
Call our practice to learn how PRP can help you get back to a more active lifestyle without undergoing invasive and painful procedures.