Regenerative Medicine Chicago

Regenerative medicine is the new era of health treatment. These therapies involve harnessing one’s own healing capabilities to improve pain and function in an area of injury or degeneration. Traditional medical approach  has fallen short with actually treating the root cause of many musculoskeletal problems, but regenerative medicine has changed this.

Designed to regenerate and facilitate healing of damaged tissues to reduce pain and improve function,, regenerative injections are used in joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The injections may involve platelet-rich plasma (PRP), Advanced cells or both. These products are derived from the patient’s own body and help repair structures to heal the root problem while reducing inflammation and pain.

Stem cells can be collected from one’s own body tissues such as bone marrow.  By concentrating these and injecting them into body structures, these cells can signal growth factors and other mediators of healing to help regenerate damaged and degenerated tissues at the injection site.

PRP is a non-invasive, safe procedure, used to treat many joint conditions, tendon injuries, ligament strains, and tissue injuries. It involves drawing blood from people, centrifuging/spinning the blood, and injecting the platelets into tissues, ligaments, joints, and tendons. This is the first step for chronic pain relief.

The body’s response to soft tissue and structure injury involves delivering platelet cells, which are components of the blood. The platelets contain bioactive healing proteins called cytokines, which can initiate repair and attract the assistance of stem cells.

These cells contain growth factors and cytokines, including vascular endothelial growth factor, interleukins, platelet-derived growth factor, and transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1).