Mesenchymal Cell Therapy in Scottsdale, AZ

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What are Mesenchymal Stem Cells?

 

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.

What is Mesenchymal Cell Therapy?

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.

What Are the Most Common Treated Conditions?

  • Joint pain secondary to osteoarthritis (knee, shoulder, hip, facet joints)
  • Soft tissue injuries (muscle and tendon tears)
  • Low back pain caused by a painful disc with internal disc disruption (tears) and/or degenerative disc disease
  • They are also being used to treat some neurological and autoimmune conditions

What Are the Benefits of Mesenchymal Cell Therapy?

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

What Are the Sources of the Mesenchymal Stem Cells?

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.

 

How Do Mesenchymal Cells Work?

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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What can Mesenchymal Cell Therapy help?
Because MSCs utilize a cell-based science to treat ailments, they are a highly versatile form of treatment. In orthopedic specialties, they are a great tool for treating a range of joint, tissue, and neurological concerns. At Southwest Spine & Sports, we tend to recommend MSCs for patients who suffer from arthritis, chronic pain, or muscle/tendon tears that resist healing with rest and ice.
How effective is this treatment?
With any newer treatment types, patients often understandably wonder about their efficacy. Some stem cell therapies have been shown to be up to 80% effective. The exact results can vary on many factors, so please don't hesitate to bring this question up in your consultation appointment at our Scottsdale, AZ practice.
Is it ethical to get Mesenchymal Cell Therapy?
As a newer treatment on the market, cell therapies have come under question as to their validity. As technology has advanced, we are now able to harvest stem cells from a multitude of viable sources that are both ethical and often autologous, or in other words, come from the same individual whom they are treating. For more information on where various stem cells originate, please see our section on this webpage dedicated to the various sources.
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I have seen Dr. Wolff for stem cell injections in both my knees, my right elbow and my right wrist. My left knee was done in January 2019 and my left knee was done in October 2019. My left knee is doing great and now waiting for some time to go by so my right knee will feel just as good. My elbow and wrist are significantly better. I am 65 years young and my goal is to play pickleball again. Dr. Wolff and his staff are very kind and caring and they explain everything throughly so I have a very good understanding of the procedures. I highly recommend Dr. Wolff and staff!! Susan Calkins

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I have seen Dr. Wolff for stem cell injections in both my knees, my right elbow and my right wrist. My left knee was done in January 2019 and my left knee was done in October 2019. My left knee is doing great and now waiting for some time to go by so my right knee will feel just as good. My elbow and wrist are significantly better. I am 65 years young and my goal is to play pickleball again. Dr. Wolff and his staff are very kind and caring and they explain everything throughly so I have a very good understanding of the procedures. I highly recommend Dr. Wolff and staff!! Susan Calkins

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My first stem cell treatment with Dr. Wolff was 10 years ago and it brought back my active life. I recently had another more extensive spinal treatment and it has also given me renewed strength and hope. As a retired physician I have a caregiver’s perspective as well as a patient’s. Dr. Wolff is an expert, always current on new information, while also being caring and developing a personalized plan for healing. I can confidently say that my experience with Dr. Wolff, his staff, and everyone involved in my care was exceptional.

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My first stem cell treatment with Dr. Wolff was 10 years ago and it brought back my active life. I recently had another more extensive spinal treatment and it has also given me renewed strength and hope. As a retired physician I have a caregiver’s perspective as well as a patient’s. Dr. Wolff is an expert, always current on new information, while also being caring and developing a personalized plan for healing. I can confidently say that my experience with Dr. Wolff, his staff, and everyone involved in my care was exceptional.

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I would like to take a moment to thank Dr. Wolff and the entire team for the amazing results that I have experienced after receiving a stem cell treatment in December 2022. Prior to the treatment, I was unable to lift my left arm above my shoulder without pain and the knee was restricting normal daily activities. Along with these two issues I had tennis elbow in my right arm, general arthritis, stiffness in my hands and my left pinky finger has a detached tendon that created daily discomfort. Just good old fashion wear and tear at 59 years old from 38 years in the construction business. My progression of results found within two days post treatment the stiffness in my hands and feet disappeared. By early January, I was hiking Lone Mountain again with no discomfort in the right knee. In roughly 5 more days all stiffness was gone. Six weeks later I attended my first yoga class in 4 months with full strength back in my knee. My left shoulder took a bit longer but I am now back in the gym training with weights again being careful of course. I can now fully extend my left arm above my head with no pain and support my own weight while performing yoga. That's a big deal. For my pinky finger there is absolutely no pain while gripping heavy objects. All of this is just short of miraculous. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your guidance and professionalism

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