Mesenchymal Cell Therapy in Scottsdale, AZ

MSC’s are undifferentiated cells that are naturally available in your body. They have the capability to send out signals to growth factors and proteins that reduce inflammation and promote healing. They even stimulate your own innate stem cells and proliferate healthy cells to ultimately reduce pain, repair tissue, and improve function.

MSC’s represent an evolution in treating musculoskeletal injuries and neurological conditions. They are a breakthrough, non-surgical treatment option for individuals suffering from low back pain, joint pain, other soft tissue injuries, and neurological conditions. MSC’s have great potential to actually accelerate the healing of injuries in a better, more complete way.

MSC’s are undifferentiated cells that are naturally stored and available in your body. They have the ability to send out signals, growth factors, and proteins that helped to reduce inflammation and promote healing on a cellular level. They can be harvested from a person’s bone marrow or adipose tissue.

Stem cell therapy is another non-surgical alternative to pain management that has been practiced since the early 1990s and uses the body’s own stem cells to treat all manner of degenerative conditions, including joint pain. Adult stem cells, collected from reservoirs in the bone marrow and adipose tissue, can be transferred directly into the site of the joint or disc injury safely and effectively in an outpatient facility, without resorting to surgery. Stem cell therapy has been proven to be extremely effective and is quickly increasing in popularity among patients of all ages.

Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapies leverage the unique properties of multipotent cells to promote tissue repair, modulate immune responses, stimulate angiogenesis, and potentially combat cancer. Possible benefits of mesenchymal cell therapy include:

• Promoting tissue repair and regeneration
• Modifying overactive immune responses
• Treating neurological conditions
• Ability to treat a variety of orthopedic and musculoskeletal ailments
• Nonsurgical, minimally invasive treatments

Three known reliable sources of stem cells can be used in treatment. Two sources are taken from your own body (autologous), bone marrow (usually your hip bone), or adipose tissue (usually abdominal fat). The third reliable source of stem cells is derived from a source other than your own body (allogeneic) - a newborn’s umbilical cord tissue and blood donated from a healthy mother and baby.

Autologous stem cells from bone marrow concentrate – Bone marrow-derived stem mesenchymal stem cells can be safely and easily taken from the hip bone and then concentrated through a specialized process performed on-site the same day. When handled and injected carefully and correctly, stem cells help set up a healthy environment and stimulate a regenerative process to create healthy tissue and repair injuries.

Autologous stem cells from adipose tissue concentrate. The center is currently using a novel autologous concentrating system from Lipogems – This system uses the patient’s own adipose tissue taken from superficial abdominal fat. It is concentrated at the bedside using mechanical methods (vs using chemicals like collagenase that the FDA has objected to using for safety issues). This helps to isolate and concentrate the useful stem cells and growth factors that are plentiful in adipose tissue. This is a same-day procedure that can be performed in our state-of-the-art surgery center. With the use of conscious sedation patients usually, experience only minimal discomfort. Adipose-derived stem cells and growth factors have proven to be very effective for treating painful OA in joints like the knee.

Stem cells derived from a newborn's umbilical cord blood and tissue (Wharton’s jelly) have high concentrations of healthy young stem cells and are a rich source of proteins and growth factors. They have proven to be safe, effective and produce a profound effect in stimulating a healing and regenerative process for injuries and degenerative conditions. This is a powerful option, given that the stem cells of a newborn are healthy, potent, and plentiful. This product is donated from a healthy mother and child. It is tested several times to ensure they are safe for use (healthy and disease-free). There is essentially no chance of rejection or adverse reaction. Umbilical cord stem cells should not be confused with fetal stem cells - they do not have the ethical, legal, or safety issues that are associated with fetal-derived stem cells.

Stem cells may function to aid in stimulating injured tissue to repair back to healthy tissue. A release proteins, growth factors that function to reduce inflammation, increased blood flow, restore a healthy environment and allow restoration of a healthy micro-environment.

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