Tissue Regeneration Procedures
Specifics
Overview
We permanently re-grow
Ligaments are straps that limit bone movement within safe, pain-free boundaries. Worn, loose ligaments are themselves painful, and they cause their own referred pain. Additionally, their laxity eventually hurts surrounding structures, causing disc herniation, nerve compression, damage to tendons, damage to cartilage, and osteoarthritis.
Tendon breakdown may be felt as local pain, referred pain, or as pain and dysfunction in the muscle that the tendon connects to bone.
Cartilage and fibrocartilage (meniscus, labrum) are damaged with injury or worn down in loose ligamented, dysfunctional joints. As cartilage gets thinner, movement irritates surrounding bone edges and eventually leads to bone spurs and other degenerative bone changes.
Breakdown of these spine and joint tissues is a key source of pain.
Procedures that re-grow these tissues can eliminate chronic pain permanently.
We intervene with minimally invasive procedures that do not involve open surgery. We precisely inject natural substances that attract your body's own growth factors and stem cells. This is done in some series of monthly procedures, with each procedure re-growing more and more of the damaged tissue, filling in broken fibers, gradually returning integrity and safe, pain-free function to the joint or spinal region being reconstructed. It is an incremental, natural process that is, literally, gardening or farming of collagen, the substance that ligaments, tendons and cartilage are made of.
However, no medical procedure can solve all medical problems. Not every patient is a candidate. Your eligibility for our methods can be preliminarily assessed in a scheduled phone conference. If you are a candidate, then a lengthy, thorough initial evaluation and examination in our office will detail how we may be able to help.
- ligaments - bone to bone connectors
- tendons - muscle to bone connectors
- cartilage - cushioning, gliding surfaces within joints.
Ligaments are straps that limit bone movement within safe, pain-free boundaries. Worn, loose ligaments are themselves painful, and they cause their own referred pain. Additionally, their laxity eventually hurts surrounding structures, causing disc herniation, nerve compression, damage to tendons, damage to cartilage, and osteoarthritis.
Tendon breakdown may be felt as local pain, referred pain, or as pain and dysfunction in the muscle that the tendon connects to bone.
Cartilage and fibrocartilage (meniscus, labrum) are damaged with injury or worn down in loose ligamented, dysfunctional joints. As cartilage gets thinner, movement irritates surrounding bone edges and eventually leads to bone spurs and other degenerative bone changes.
Breakdown of these spine and joint tissues is a key source of pain.
Procedures that re-grow these tissues can eliminate chronic pain permanently.
We intervene with minimally invasive procedures that do not involve open surgery. We precisely inject natural substances that attract your body's own growth factors and stem cells. This is done in some series of monthly procedures, with each procedure re-growing more and more of the damaged tissue, filling in broken fibers, gradually returning integrity and safe, pain-free function to the joint or spinal region being reconstructed. It is an incremental, natural process that is, literally, gardening or farming of collagen, the substance that ligaments, tendons and cartilage are made of.
However, no medical procedure can solve all medical problems. Not every patient is a candidate. Your eligibility for our methods can be preliminarily assessed in a scheduled phone conference. If you are a candidate, then a lengthy, thorough initial evaluation and examination in our office will detail how we may be able to help.
Grafting
One of our most powerful methods for growing new tissue is platelet-leukocyte autografting.
How does it work? Your blood is drawn and processed here on-site over about an hour. The resultant platelet, white blood cell and stem cell concentrate is then immediately grafted to within the damaged tissue via injection. Intelligent regeneration of the broken tissue fibers and fibrils ensues. Growth and repair continues for up to a month. Some series of monthly procedures is usually necessary.
The result is new, healthy, natural young tissue that is permanent.
- Platelets are blood cells that carry a pouch of growth factors. Growth factors are the complex proteins in our bodies that act as contractors and subcontractors to initiate and organize the growing of tissue.
- Leukocytes are white blood cells, several kinds of immune system cells that are also key to tissue growth.
- Stem cells are cells that divide to leave one stem cell and another cell of whatever kind may be needed by the growth factor contractors to make new structures. By concentrating the blood we are concentrating some amount of stem cells natural to the blood. The injection of this blood cell concentrate has also been shown to attract a large additional amount of stem cells to the repair site.
- Grafting is taking tissue or cells from one place and putting it in another place where it is needed.
- Autografting is using the tissue or cells from one's own body.
How does it work? Your blood is drawn and processed here on-site over about an hour. The resultant platelet, white blood cell and stem cell concentrate is then immediately grafted to within the damaged tissue via injection. Intelligent regeneration of the broken tissue fibers and fibrils ensues. Growth and repair continues for up to a month. Some series of monthly procedures is usually necessary.
The result is new, healthy, natural young tissue that is permanent.
Plasma Therapy
Plasma is the straw colored fluid in the blood. It is also secondarily bio-active and useful in stimulating growth. It contains two growth factors, substances that act like contractors to organize and signal tissue repair. Plasma also contains two important adhesion factors, substances that help the area being repaired to hold together while new tissues grow in. In has some lesser capacity for attracting stem cells. It is another substance from your own blood that we utilize in making growth of new tissue occur in areas where you are experiencing pain due to degeneration or injury.
Tendon \ Fascia Remodeling
A first step in gardening is breaking up the soil. With painful, broken down tendons, just breaking up the tissue in a calculated manner gets the growth process off to a good start. This process of tendon remodeling is called tenotomy; in cases of fascia it may be called fasciotomy. After anesthetizing the given area, needling of the tendon or fascia does several things:
The medical term for such needle stimulation of tendon is "tenotomy." Such needle stimulation of fascia is "fasciotomy."
This treatment may be useful alone or best in a series of interventions that may later include other types of injection. Recent studies have provided strong medical evidence of the effectiveness of tenotomy or fasciotomy in repair, regeneration, and pain management.
- breaks up any calcium deposits in the tendon that would be in the way of growing healthy tissue
- breaks up foreign fibrocartilage tissue that often infiltrates degenerating tendons, making way for growing healthy tendon tissue
- breaks up some of the irregularities on the degenerated bony surface where the tendon must reattach; this may be compared to cleaning off old dried glue that has failed before re-gluing an object to a surface
- immediately brings blood to the area - blood carries growth factors and stem cells
- stimulates development of new, extra blood vessels in the area for increased nourishment during the healing phase
The medical term for such needle stimulation of tendon is "tenotomy." Such needle stimulation of fascia is "fasciotomy."
This treatment may be useful alone or best in a series of interventions that may later include other types of injection. Recent studies have provided strong medical evidence of the effectiveness of tenotomy or fasciotomy in repair, regeneration, and pain management.
