Stem Cell Therapy for Quicker Healing

Our bodies are designed to be able to heal our ailments from within. Whether it’s a sports-related injury or you suffer from a chronic illness like arthritis, you have options for your pain. Regenerative medicine, also known as stem cell therapy, can provide more quick and efficient healing. Stem cell therapy helps repair tissue that’s been damaged by injury, disease, or even surgery. If you want to learn how stem cell therapy could help you, keep reading.

What is Regenerative Medicine?

Regenerative medicine is defined as the process of regenerating human cells, tissues, and organs to establish normal function from within our own bodies. Our bodies have incredible healing capabilities, but sometimes they need a little push to begin proper healing. 

What is Stem Cell Therapy?

We all have stem cells. These cells are an important part of making sure our body’s heals properly after injury or disease. They lie still in the body until they receive a signal the body has suffered an injury and then they follow your platelets to the site of the injury. When this happens, they are then able to turn into the same type cell that has the injury.

Stem cells are able to heal injuries in ligaments, tendons, tissues, and bones. As we suffer injuries or grow older, the amount of stem cells found in our bodies decline. That’s where this therapy comes in. Stem cell therapy delivers a high concentration of stem cells into the injured part of your body to promote healing from within. 

Stem cell treatment takes advantage of your body’s own natural ability to repair itself. 

What is the Stem Cell Therapy Procedure Like?

The stem cell therapy procedure is fairly simple and takes as little as 15 minutes here in our Texas Spine and Sports Therapy office. Within 24-48 hours after the procedure, most patients will find relief from their pain. This procedure is similar to cortisone or steroid shots, as they have anti-inflammatory properties, but come with many more benefits than standard injections. The best part is there is zero downtime with this procedure. It provides pain relief without the risks that come along with surgery, general anesthesia, and hospital stays. Most patients experience complete joint restoration of ligaments, tendons, and cartilage within a month. 

This treatment is ‘curative,’ meaning that you can literally grow new joint tissue. Once your joint is healed, it’s healed. 

Injuries that Stem Cell Therapy Can Help

On average, there are over 8.6 million sports or recreational related injuries a year. These injuries can cause players to miss out on weeks or months of practices and games. Stem cell therapy therapy can help everyone, from athletes who have an injury from a one-time trauma to patients who overuse a muscle in their day-to-day lives. Sports-health explains that doctors use stem cells to treat a wide variety of sports injuries, including damage to:

• Tendons
• Ligaments
• Muscles
• Cartilage 

Beyond athletes, this therapy can also help patients who have arthritis or other degenerative joint conditions. Taking medication for years to help these conditions is still not effective for some 20% to 40% of those suffering arthritis or joint pain. However, stem cells can help. 

Benefits of Stem Cell Therapy 

The healing capabilities of stem cells provide stem cell therapy with a number of benefits. Researchers have found the following benefits with stem cells: 

• An increased understanding of how diseases happen. By watching how stem cells mature into cells in bones, heart muscle, nerves, and other organs and tissues, doctors are getting a better understanding of how diseases and conditions develop. 
• Generating healthy cells to replace diseased cells. This is regenerative medicine. Stem cells can be directed into becoming specific cells that can be used to regenerate and repair diseased or damaged tissue, like we mentioned above.
• The ability to get new drugs. Before using new medications in people, researchers can use types of stem cells to test drugs for safety and quality. 

Make an Appointment with Texas Spine and Sports Therapy Center for Stem Cell Therapy

Are you ready to heal naturally and quit living in pain? The less invasive approach stem cell therapy offers attracts thousands each year. Texas Spine and Sports Therapy Center is one of the few clinics in the country to offer this procedure. With convenient locations near Austin, we are ready to get you back to the activity levels you desire. Call today to make an appointment: (512)-806-0015.