Pain Relief without Drugs with Regenerative MedicineEffectively managing or treating chronic pain has remained a challenge for medicine. And now, the opioid crisis is telling everyone to find an alternative to pain medication. Unfortunately, very few, effective non-pharmacological solutions exist.
Fortunately, regenerative medicine has made great strides in the past few years. Here is a glimpse of 4 innovative regenerative medicine treatments for pain management that are already proving themselves as great alternatives to drugs.
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy
PRP or Platelet Rich Plasma therapy relies on blood platelets and the growth factors they contain. PRP therapy is an autologous procedure. In other words, the patient is treated with platelets taken from his/her own blood. This eliminates the risk of rejection or infection.
Blood platelets and growth factors stimulate the body’s natural healing processes. This is why when platelet rich plasma is extracted from the patient’s own blood, and injected at the site of the damage or injury (that was causing the pain), the body can begin to heal itself. This leads to healing and reduction in pain. PRP therapy is being used widely to deal with pain stemming from arthritis pain and musculoskeletal injuries.
Stem Cell Therapy
Stem cells are body’s ‘blank’ cells that have the ability to differentiate into many other types of cells. These cells trigger the body’s natural healing mechanism to address the source of pain.
Stem cell therapy also utilizes autologous material – the stem cells are taken from the person’s own body and injected at the site of damage or injury to stimulate natural healing response.
Stem cell therapy is similar to PRP therapy in terms of application. Stem cells are extracted from the patient’s adipose fat tissue through a procedure similar to liposuction. The extracted material is spun in the centrifuge to isolate the stem cells. The resulting material has a high concentration of stem cells. It is then injected at the site of injury or disease.
PRP and stem cell therapies offer the promise of stimulating the body’s natural healing mechanisms without dependence on pain medication or long hospital stays and longer recovery periods.
Most current pain management options address the symptoms and not the root cause of pain. And that is why the never goes away. The ideal way to treat chronic pain would be something that can actually treat the root cause of pain, which usually is injury or tissue damage due to a degenerative disease.
The biggest advantage with regenerative medicine procedures is that their primary purpose is not to treat symptoms, but to encourage natural healing.
If you are looking for adipose stem cell therapy, call the leading stem cell treatment center in Chicago, The Regenerative Stem Cell Institute at 855-340-7836 today!
|
