Are You Suffering from the Effects of Hand Arthritis?
If you currently suffer from hand arthritis, you’re not alone. Arthritis is one of the most prevalent joint diseases affecting the daily life of millions of middle aged and elderly individuals. The hands and wrists are most susceptible to arthritis due to the multiple small joints working together to produce motion – especially the fine motion abilities that allow you to tie your shoes or write a letter. Daily living becomes increasingly difficult when the joints are affected by arthritis and unfortunately, it isn’t a condition you can leave untreated.
Over time, if you don’t treat your arthritis, the bones that make up the joint can lose their normal shape. This deterioration can further impact mobility and cause more pain. While there’s currently no cure for arthritis, there are treatments that can help slow the condition’s progression and lessen painful symptoms.
What is Stem Cell Therapy?
Treatments for hand arthritis aren’t limited to surgical interventions or pharmaceuticals. At Spine Correction Center, new cutting-edge treatment options such as Stem Cell Therapy can successfully treat patients with arthritis.
To clarify, the types of stem cells we use for treatment either come from the amniotic sac – not an embryo – or they come directly from your own bone marrow. While ethical debates have arisen about embryonic stem cell therapy, most everyone agrees that using Amniotic Stem Cell Therapy or Autologous (Self-Derived) Stem Cell Therapy raises no ethical or moral questions.
Spine Correction Center is one of the few clinics in the country to offer Amniotic Stem Cells for stem cell therapy. We couple the treatment with rehabilitation (if needed) to correct the reason your joint “wore out” in the first place. Spine Correction Center is integrated with Medical Doctors, Nurse Practitioners and Chiropractic Physicians – dealing with chronic joint pain is what we do!
Stem cells play a key role in the body’s healing process. They lie latent in your body until they receive signals that the body has suffered an injury, and then they follow your platelets to the injured site. Stem cells are able to transform into the same type of cell that was injured to promote healing. They’re tasked with healing injured ligaments, tendons, tissues and bones. After an injury, or as a natural result of aging, the amount of stem cells needed in certain areas of the body declines. Stem Cell Therapy solves this problem by delivering a high concentration of stem cells into the injured area, promoting natural healing.
How Does Stem Cell Therapy Work?
Stem cell treatment takes advantage of the body’s ability to repair itself. With Amniotic Stem Cell Therapy, your Spine Correction Center doctor injects stem cells from amniotic tissues into your body. Similar to cortisone and steroid shots, stem cell injections have anti-inflammatory properties, but offer far more benefits than those of standard injection therapies. While cortisone and other drugs only provide temporary pain relief, stem cells actually restore degenerated tissue while providing pain relief. The growth factors in Amniotic Stem Cells may replace damaged cells in your body. Additionally, stem cell injections contain hyaluronic acid, which lubricates joints and tendons, easing the pain and helping restore mobility.
Amniotic Stem Cells can turn into any type of tissue found in joints including cartilage, ligament, tendon, bone or muscle. The only tissue they can’t become is nerve tissue. Stem Cell Therapy is a “curative” treatment, allowing your body to permanently grow new joint tissue. The oldest research to date shows that 100 percent of recipients who benefited from Stem Cell Therapy were still pain free four years later.
How Does Stem Cell Therapy Differ from Other Options
Current treatments for the painful and debilitating effects of hand arthritis rely on early intervention with synthetic drugs, either singly or in combination. This pharmaceutical approach is still not effective for some 20 to 40 percent of those suffering from arthritis. According to the National Institute of Health, Stem Cell Therapy provides a promising alternative to surgery by promoting safe and natural healing. Stem Cell Therapy provides a non-surgical, non-pharmaceutical approach to your hand and wrist injuries and chronic arthritic pain. The less invasive approach Stem Cell Therapy offers attracts thousands of patients each year.
What are the Benefits of Stem Cell Therapy?
Regenerative therapy provides you with an innovative way to utilize your body’s own stem cells to build, repair and renew chronic painful orthopedic knees, hips, shoulders, feet and ankles, as well as spinal disc injuries – conditions that respond well to Stem Cell Therapy even after other treatments prove ineffective. Stem Cell Therapy is often sought as an alternative to an invasive surgery.
What to Expect
The Stem Cell Therapy procedure is performed right in our Fort Collins office. After an evaluation and x-rays to determine the extent of your condition, our nurse practitioner delivers an injection. The entire visit takes less than 90 minutes, and you can resume a normal activity level right away! You should notice initial improvement within a few weeks and see a steady progression toward a pain-free life as your healing advances.
Are You a Candidate?
If you suffer from hand/wrist pain or osteoarthritis, you may be a good candidate for Stem Cell Therapy at Spine Correction Center. You and your doctor will discuss your patient history, injury and goals to determine if Stem Cell Therapy is for you.
Call for a Free Arthritis Consultation
Don’t suffer with the pain of hand arthritis any longer! The team at Spine Correction Center can help you understand where your symptoms are coming from and whether Stem Cell Therapy can help. We provide specialized treatment plans for your condition right here in Fort Collins. Contact us online or call (970) 658-5115 today to schedule your free consultation!
