Page 4 - Regenerative Medicine - Patient Guide

REGENERATIVE

MEDICINE

From the young model to the aging retiree, from
the elite athlete to the weekend warrior, to the
immune- compromised patient and the patient
with other co- morbidities, clinicians continue to
search for ways to control pain and accelerate
the healing process. Utilizing various therapies
has proven to have many profound benefits; not
the least of which includes overall superior
outcomes.

Dawning on the horizon of medical advancements,
these therapies hold the potent healing potential
whose benefits have the power to span
disciplines as diverse as hair restoration and
orthopedics. These therapies harness the power
and versatility of the human body to regenerate
damaged skin, accelerate healing, reactivate hair
follicles, heal wounds and alleviate pain.

Many people have heard of the usefulness of
stem cell therapy but there's so much more to
regenerative medicine than just stem cells, whose
outcome is very dependent on the age of the
patient they are being harvested from; your stem
cells are as old as you are. (Figure 1) Equally
important are components such as collagens,
cytokines, proteins, growth factors... the list
goes on.

Treatments being utilized, as a stand-alone or
combined, include birth tissues from amniotic
fluid/membrane, umbilical cord tissue, umbilical
cord Wharton’s Jelly and umbilical cord blood,
platelet rich plasma (PRP), adipose derived stem
cells (ADSC) and bone marrow aspirate (BMA).
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