Regenerative Procedures

Wharton’s Jelly Umbilical Product

PRP is an injection of highly concentrated platelets which has been derived from an individual's own blood. The purpose of PRP is to stimulate and support healing in a wide variety of injuries and chronic conditions. To create platelet-rich plasma, a small blood sample is taken from the patient and placed into a device called a centrifuge, which rapidly spins the sample. This high-speed spin separates out the platelets from the other blood components, and it concentrates them within the rich plasma. Packed with growth hormones and healing factors, platelets initiate repair, and this natural healing process intensifies the body’s efforts by delivering a higher concentration of platelets directly into an area of injury. Thus, PRP accelerates the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles, and joints. It is commonly used for plantar fasciitis, achilles tendonitis, ankle sprains and strains, arthritis, tennis elbow, rotator cuff injuries, knee pain, joint pain, sciatica, shoulder pain, hip pain, and foot and ankle pain. There is very little risk associated with this procedure as the patient’s own healing factors are used without any additives. Minimal restrictions are necessary post PRP procedures.

Wharton’s Jelly is a connective tissue located within the umbilical cord largely composed of mesenchymal stem cells and extracellular matrix components, including collagen, chondroitin sulfate, hyaluronic acid, and sulfated proteoglycans. Wharton’s Jelly recruits a concentrated amount of your own cells to the area of injury and directs the cells as to what is needed to heal while already providing the growth factors and proteins.

BMAC - (Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate Stem Cells)

Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate (BMAC) is a therapy derived from a patient’s own bone marrow, which is then injected into damaged areas to stimulate healing and repair. In the human body, bone marrow is where blood is generated. Bone marrow aspiration is a procedure which involves taking a sample of the liquid part of the soft tissue from inside an individual's bones or bone marrow. The stem cells from BMAC are specialized cells that are known to transform into various types of tissues to help speed up the healing process by boosting the body’s natural healing abilities and promoting tissue growth. Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate is commonly used for arthritis of the joints, osteonecrosis, or bone death, improving wound healing, improving tendon healing, treating fractures of the bones, delaying progression of diseases such as arthritis, and for treating cartilage injuries.