If you have joint pain, neuropathy, or a degenerative disease like arthritis, you may be tired of masking your symptoms with painkillers and synthetic drugs. Stem cell regenerative therapy offers long-term pain relief for many patients when other traditional treatments have failed. Learn more about stem cells and the benefits they offer to help you decide if this treatment could be right for you.
How Does Stem Cell Regenerative Therapy Work?
Other types of therapeutic injections exist, such as cortisone and steroid shots, but none are as beneficial as stem cell regenerative therapy. Stem cell injections introduce versatile cells into your body that are capable of turning into any degenerating tissues, including ligaments, tendons, muscles, skin, cartilage, and bone.
Stem cells occur naturally in the body, but they decrease in quantity as you age. Injecting a high concentration of cells where you need them most promotes speedy, long-lasting repair. You may feel pain relief as soon as 24 to 48 hours, with many patients experiencing a complete renewal of their damaged tissue after 28 days. The oldest research also suggests that 100 percent of treatment recipients remain pain-free four years after treatment.
What are Some of the Different Types of Stem Cells?
Doctors use stem cells from a variety of sources. Some of the most common ones include:
- Embryonic stem cells: Three- to five-day-old embryos consist of about 150 pluripotent stem cells, meaning they can become any type of cell in the body. This makes them incredibly effective at healing degenerating tissue. Unfortunately, ethical debates surround the use of embryonic stem cells.
- Adult stem cells: Bone marrow, blood, and fat tissue contain small amounts of adult stem cells. These have more limited uses than embryonic stem cells, but they also have no ethical concerns. Plus, if you harvest adult stem cells from your own body, the chances of rejection are next to none.
- Altered adult stem cells: Also known as reprogrammed cells, these adult stem cells are genetically modified to act similarly to embryonic stem cells. This expands the possible uses for adult stem cells when treating degenerative diseases.
- Amniotic stem cells: Researchers have discovered that stem cells from the amniotic sac, umbilical cord, and placental tissue have the ability to change into specialized cells just like embryonic stem cells. However, since they are harvested from waste materials after a healthy baby is delivered, there is no moral ambiguity with using amniotic stem cells.
What Conditions Respond Well to Stem Cell Regenerative Therapy?
Research into the potential uses of stem cells is ongoing. Currently, some of the most common conditions treated with stem cells include:
- Arthritis
- Cartilage or tendon injuries
- Blood and immune system diseases
- Severe burns
- Cornea injuries and eye diseases
- Neurological conditions
- Type 1 diabetes
- Spinal cord injuries
- Multiple sclerosis
- Heart disease, stroke, and heart attack
- Cancer
What are the Benefits of Stem Cell Therapy?
Your body has the amazing ability to heal itself—all it needs is the proper tools. Here’s how stem cell injections can benefit you if you’re struggling with arthritis:
- Hyaluronic acid in stem cell injections lubricate existing cartilage and promote new cartilage growth.
- Stem cell treatment is steroid-free. Instead, it relies on naturally occurring anti-inflammatory properties to relieve pain.
- Growth factors in stem cell injections stimulate new tissue formation.
- Regenerative therapy releases cytokines, proteins that slow down cartilage degeneration and decrease pain.
Is Stem Cell Regenerative Therapy Safe?
The effectiveness of stem cell therapy depends on where the stem cells come from, how they are separated from the harvested tissue, and how they are delivered to the damaged joint. This means it’s important to compare different treatments to find one that will work best for you.
Spine Correction Center of the Rockies offers amniotic stem cell therapy with exceptional results. Amniotic stem cells are well-researched, effective, and rarely rejected by the immune system. All amniotic stem cell donors undergo a rigorous screening process established by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) to ensure the safety of every patient.
Begin Stem Cell Treatment at Spine Correction Center
Our goal at Spine Correction Center is to help relieve pain through natural healing processes. Using non-surgical, non-pharmaceutical techniques such as stem cell regenerative therapy, we can improve your quality of life by helping you resume an active lifestyle.
Please contact us today at (970) 658-5115 to find out if your condition qualifies for stem cell injections. You can also attend a free regenerative stem cell seminar to learn more.
