Stem Cell Recruitment Therapy Offers an Alternative to Knee Replacement Surgery

Total knee replacement is permanent and should be treated as a last resort, not the "go to" solution most orthopedic surgeons think it is

Friday, March 1, 2019 - More total knee replacement surgeries are being performed than ever before as senior citizens ask their doctors for a solution to their osteoarthritis knee pain. According to Uptodate.com, "Approximately 700,000 knee replacement procedures are performed annually in the US. This number is projected to increase to 3.48 million procedures per year by 2030. While total knee replacement can be helpful in extreme circumstances, you should discuss the risks, benefits, and alternatives with a doctor." Rather than jump into irreversible knee replacement surgery patients should first explore the many knee pain-relief options they have. Knee replacement device attorneys recommend to get a no obligation free consultation to see if you or a loved one qualify to file a claim.

A promising new form of knee pain management is Stem cell recruitment (SCR). SCR treatments now offer senior citizens and those suffering from osteoarthritis a viable alternative to taking dangerous pain medications or rushing into risky total knee replacement surgery. Hospital pain relief clinics offer SCR as the first line of treatment to treat knee pain and also the lengthy and painful knee replacement surgery recovery period. Knee replacement patients are more or less required to undergo regular physical therapy for the remainder of their lives as the muscles and tissues surrounding the knee that are torn, stretched and shredded during knee replacement surgery never fully repair themselves properly. Stem cells are neutral cells that can grow into any other cell and are provided from amniotic fluid, the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the uterus protecting the fetus from injury and infection. According to Dr. David Rosania, director of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Pain Relief Institute in Chicago, amniotic fluid is preferable to stem cell aspirated from a patients bone marrow in that "The exosome call signal (from amniotic fluid) is like a bull horn recruiting the stem cells to the affected joint whereas the stem cell calling signal (from bone marrow aspiration) is like a walkie-talkie calling the cell, it can still be effective but the efficiency is just not the same."

There are many advantages to giving SCR a try before one undergoes total knee replacement. One of the many features of SCR is the ease in which it can be administered. SCR requires one quick injection into the precise area where the knee pain is occurring and the patient can go home or back to work immediately with no downtime. No anesthesia, not even a local, is required and the entire procedure start to finish takes less than 15 minutes. Finally, stem cell treatments performed by the Pain Relief Institute are generally covered by medical insurance. In addition to SCR, those suffering from osteoarthritis should consider improving their diets and losing weight, engaging a professional physical therapist to improve their overall physical fitness, and perhaps taking mild pain relief medication when necessary.

It should be noted that the authors of this article make no endorsements as to the method of knee pain treatment any individual should embark upon and are merely researching and presenting the alternatives to dangerous and invasive total knee replacement surgery that is available.

Stem Cell Recruitment Therapy Offers an Alternative to Knee Replacement Surgery

Total knee replacement is permanent and should be treated as a last resort, not the "go to" solution most orthopedic surgeons think it is

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