Stem Cells – An Alternative to Back Surgery?

Many patients are now turning to Stem Cell Therapy as a better alternative to traditional back pain treatments, with an easier and faster recovery and hardly any risk of complications or side effects.

Chronic back pain is the one of most common musculoskeletal disorder. Some common causes that lead to chronic back pain include Facet joint disorders, osteoarthritis, and herniated discs. The joints in the spine, together with the intervertebral discs located between each two vertebrae, lend strength and flexibility to your spine. Arthritic joint diseases and disc degeneration can destabilize spine, causing pain and disability.

Conventional treatments for chronic back pain are mostly based on managing pain with –

• medication
• repeated injections of analgesic drugs
• surgery

This relieves pain for some time but does not treat the source of the pain. The surgery is done to fuse parts of the spine but that reduces spine mobility and, in some cases, even fails to eliminate pain with patients having to be on medication for pain management.

While the long-term use of pain medication is associated carries the risk of tolerance and dependence, back surgery is associated with the risks of including pain, blood clots, reactions to anesthesia, infections or muscle loss. Recovery from back surgery is usually slow and patients require a long period of rehabilitation with restriction on actions, such as bending, lifting heavy objects, and twisting the body.

How does stem cell therapy work?

Stem Cell Therapy aims to –

• support the natural healing of the affected joints
• generate new tissue
• repair injury, and
• slow down, suppress and even reverse damaging inflammatory processes

This can result not only in symptom relief but also recovery of the damaged area of the spine. The latter is not possible with any conventional treatments.

At the Advanced Stem Cell Institute, experts use cord stem cell therapy. Cord blood from the umbilical cord and placenta carriespowerfulstem cells that can repair and restore different tissuesin the body easily. The umbilical cord possesses two types of stem cells – cord tissue stem cells and cord blood stem cells.

Cord stem cell therapy has been proven to help treat several diseases, including those that affect the spine and cause chronic back pain. When stem cell therapy is used along with Platelet rich plasma, the results have been shown as muchsuperior to steroid injections in treating lumbar facet joint syndrome.

With the help of PRP (platelet rich plasma), stem cells act as precursor cells for repair and also modify the environment in the spine from inflammatory to regenerating. Stem cells stimulating cellular growth and repair processes, as well as reduce inflammation, resulting in pain relief and better function.

To learn more about stem cell therapy, call the leading stem cell clinic in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and Bay Area, call Advanced Stem Cell Institute at 855-937-7836 today.

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