Good Candidates for Regenerative Medicine
Regenerative medicine can be an effective, nonsurgical treatment option for a variety of musculoskeletal conditions that cause pain, decrease mobility, and generally prevent you from enjoying an active lifestyle. The goal of regenerative medicine is to not only successfully alleviate or even eliminate existing symptoms, but to regenerate, rebuild, and restore damaged cartilage, tendons, and ligaments at the cellular level.
The best candidates for regenerative medicine are often those who:
- Are looking for an alternative to surgery or other traditional pain management techniques
- Are in generally good overall health
- Want to improve the healing results of more complex nerve or spinal issues like sciatica, herniated discs, or neuropathy
- Need relief from chronic pain without relying on medication
If you have been recommended for surgery by a doctor. If a medical professional has recommended surgery for your condition, there is a high likelihood that you are a good candidate for regenerative medicine.
Regenezone has been at the forefront of regenerative medicine for more than 30 years, providing patients with the best in innovative modalities that deliver real, sustainable results in pain relief. Led by The Hormone Zone founders Dr. John Robinson and Dr. Cristina Bosch, along with board-certified regenerative medicine expert Dr. Jordan Kopcio, Regenezone offers an array of proven, science-backed regenerative medicine therapies that can help restore your body to better function without the need for surgery or prescription pain medication.
Regenerative medicine can be an ideal solution for patients suffering from injuries and conditions like:
- Plantar fasciitis (heel spurs)
- Achilles tendonitis
- Tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow (lateral epicondylitis and medial epicondylitis)
- Shoulder pain, rotator cuff injuries, and frozen shoulder
- Trigger finger
- Shin splints
- Hip, knee, and ankle pain
- Shin splints
- Trigger points
- Headaches and neck pain
- Disc herniations
- Turf toe/sand toe
- Repetitive stress injuries
- Pain in the joints associated with arthritis
- Back pain
- Pinched nerves
- Bursitis
It can also be used in the treatment, management, or improvement of:
- Moderate osteoarthritis of the knee, hip, ankle, shoulder, hands, or wrists or another degenerative joint disease
- Joints that are weak and unstable
- Limited range of motion, stiffness, tenderness, and swelling in joints
- Non-healing fractures
- Migraine headaches associated with neck pain and spasms
- A weak immune system
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic myofascial pain syndromes
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Ulcers and non-healing wounds caused by injury or pressure sores
What Makes a Good Candidate for Regenerative Medicine
While most people are good candidates for regenerative medicine, whether or not you are will depend on a variety of factors such as:
Your health.
Good candidates for regenerative medicine should be in good general health. Being in good general health makes regenerative therapy more tolerable and more likely to yield the optimal results.
The nature and stage of your condition or illness.
Not all medical conditions respond well to regenerative medicine, and different conditions progress at different rates. How far advanced any damage or deterioration is will have an impact on the outcome of your regenerative therapy. Some therapies are more effective in the earlier stages of a condition, and you may not want to invest in a therapy that is unlikely to produce the results you want.
The feasibility of using your own cells.
Leveraging your own cells for treatment almost always offers the best chances for maximum success. While there are an array of regenerative treatment options that do not require using your own cells, whether or not yours can be used in the first place may limit what treatments are available to you.
Your past and current treatment plans.
Some medications or previous treatments may not be compatible with some regenerative medicine therapies; they could compromise the integrity of the products used in your therapy or they may interfere with the success of those therapies. It’s important to share all current medications and treatment plans with your provider when seeking regenerative therapy.
Your expectations.
When it comes to regenerative medicine, it is important to have realistic expectations. You should understand the effectiveness and limitations of your treatment as well as how your current health status and/or lifestyle may impact your results. You should also be committed to following post-care instructions and be willing and able to take the time to heal properly.
Generally speaking, people who are not good candidates for regenerative medicine are those with:
- A history of bone marrow cancer
- Active infections
- Blood-related diseases
- Severe anemia
- Cancer
Regenerative medicine is also discouraged for people who are pregnant.
Types of Regenerative Medicine
Unlike traditional approaches to treating injuries or chronic pain, which often only provide temporary relief without addressing the underlying cause of the problem, regenerative medicine heals and regenerates damaged tissue to deliver long-term pain relief and improve functionality. By leveraging the body’s natural capabilities to heal and recover, regenerative medicine works with the body instead of against it to promote accelerated healing through tissue regeneration, repair, and restoration.
Because many regenerative therapies either stimulate the body’s own healing process or are derived from the patient’s own blood and plasma, they carry virtually no harmful side effects or risk of rejection, making them one of the lowest-risk treatment options for conditions that cause chronic pain, and for the widest range of patients. Moreover, they can be personalized, tailored to meet the specific needs of each individual body.
Some of the most effective regenerative medicine therapies include:
Wharton’s Jelly. Wharton’s Jelly is an HCT/P product rich in mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and other regenerative compounds like collagen and hyaluronic acid that, when injected into areas of injury or pain, stimulate the regeneration process by producing replacement cells and tissue, reducing inflammation, and lubricating damaged joints.
PRP Stem Cell Therapy. PRP Stem Cell therapy uses a sample of your body’s own plasma, which boasts a 5-10 times greater concentration of platelets and growth factors than blood alone. Once injected back into your body, the concentrated PRP solution can accelerate the initial healing stage of an injury or even reactivate it in old injuries, stimulating your body to resume the healing process naturally.
Prolotherapy. By triggering controlled and localized tissue trauma via the injection of a mild irritant solution, prolotherapy encourages the body to initiate a wound healing cascade, a process that repairs damaged tissue in such a way that it results in stronger tissue integrity.
PiezoWave2 Acoustic Therapy. Through the use of sound wave energy, Acoustic Wave Therapy helps your body release growth factors into affected tissue, disrupting the pain cycle, stimulating the growth of new blood vessels, and repairing old or damaged blood vessels.
At Regenezone, we combine regenerative medicine therapies like these with other complementing modalities and individualized recovery plans to help improve the healing process and optimize results.
Regenezone: Regenerative Medicine Made for You
Regenerative medicine holds enormous promise and potential as a safe, viable, and effective solution for the vast majority of patients facing surgery or pain medication to treat their injury or chronic pain. By targeting the underlying cause of the pain, tailoring a personalized approach to therapy, and promoting tissue repair and regeneration without the risk of side effects or rejection, regenerative medicine can provide the improved functionality, long-lasting relief, and enhanced quality of life you deserve.
Under the expert guidance of Dr. Kopcio, your regenerative medicine treatment plan will include a full and diverse complement of effective regenerative therapies that can be personalized to your unique needs and goals. And, because we offer a wide array of modalities, you can be confident that if one therapy isn’t right for you, another one is.
If you have an injury or chronic pain and have been recommended for surgery–or are just looking for a more sustainable solution to long-term pain relief–schedule a consultation with Dr. Kopcio at Regenezone today and find out if you are a good candidate for regenerative medicine. You have nothing to lose.