Stem Cells Treatment for Ankylosing Spondylitis Ankylosing Spondylitis is a form of spondyloarthritis, a chronic, inflammatory arthritis and autoimmune disease. It mainly affects joints in the spine and the sacroiliac joint in the pelvis, and can cause eventual fusion of the spine. This is a systemic rheumatic...
Regeneration of meniscus and hyaline cartilage in a arthitic knee treated with intra-articular implantation of autologous mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow and or adipose derived (fat). Stem Cell Treatment for Cartilage Stem Cell Treatment for Cartilage Mesenchymal stem cells, or MSCs, are multipotent stromal cells...
Applications of Mesenchymal stem cell-based therapies in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Applications of Mesenchymal stem cell-based therapies in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is chronic autoimmune systematic inflammatory disease of connective tissue with predominant joint disease of erosive-destructive progressive polyarthritis type. The pathogenesis basis of rheumatoid arthritis consist of genetically determined...
Below you will find some technical information on the use of ozone injections into and round the spinal discs of the back to promote recovery from chronic back pain. Ozone is being widely used and accepted as an alternative treatment to surgery and may be...
Wear and tear of joints and break down of cartilage called osteoarthritis. The pathophysiology of these diseases is complex and characterized by the softening and even distruction of the articular cartilage, with increased matrix degradation due to collagenase and proteoglycanases. The enzymes may be secreted by activated chondrocytes and...
[caption id="attachment_1241" align="alignleft" width="300"] The above picture is a study done in Oct. 2012 showing the difference in doing nothing , PRP , ADSC (fat), and BMSC (bone marrow) on cartilage damage. They looked at 6 & 12 wk’s. This evidence supports the use of...
Stem Cells and PRP in Sarasota Florida for Osteoarthritis and as an alternative to Joint Replacment. Abstract INTRODUCTION: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a dynamic process involving the main tissues of the joint for which a global approach should be considered. No disease-modifying OA drug (DMOAD) has yet been approved....
There is too much emphasis on the lumbar disc when it comes to Sciatic and little attention to the other causes of leg pain. Out of 5 known causes of leg pain only one is from the nerve root. Radicular pain or “radiculopathy” (sometimes also referred to as...
Despite financial and regulatory hurdles, Asian scientists and clinicians have made important contributions in the area of cartilage repair. Because it is impossible to include observations on all the published articles in one review, our attempt is to highlight Asian progress in this area during...
There are several characteristics of stem cells that make them unique in comparison with other mammalian cells. First, they exist as unspecialized cells lacking tissue-specific characteristics and they maintain this undifferentiated phenotype until exposed to appropriate signals. Second, they have the capacity for extensive self-renewal....