Stem cell therapy (or “regenerative medicine”) is a regenerative medicine that utilizes the healing abilities of a patient’s own body to treat foot and ankle issues.
Before stem cell therapy, there was no alternative to regenerate the cartilage in the foot and ankle. But now stem cell therapy has proven to stimulate growth and health of the foot and ankle cartilage.
What is regenerative medicine?
What exactly are stem cells?
What is stem cell therapy?
Do I need stem cell therapy or PRP therapy?
Where do the stem cells come from?
Regenerative medicine regrows, repairs, or replaces damaged or diseased cells, organs, and tissues.
Stem cells are a specific type of cell found within the body from which specialty cells arrive. Stem cells include ligament, tendon, bone, cartilage, muscle cells, brain cells, and more.
Stem cell therapy utilizes stem cells to restore dysfunctional or injured tissue.
Some patients need platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections only, while others require injections that are slightly more aggressive (stem cell therapy). During your consultation with us, we will determine which is better for you — stem cell therapy or PRP therapy.
The stem cells are obtained from a patient’s own bone marrow or blood.
For stem cell therapy, local anesthetic can be used. Your doctor will take the stem cells from the lower back or stomach; bone marrow is typically taken from the back part of the hip. Once the stem cells have been taken, they will be processed and injected into the treatment area, where they will divide and help build up new tissue. The procedure takes approximately four hours.
If you answer “yes” to the following, stem cell therapy may be right for you.
Dr. Salma Aziz, D.P.M, M.S. has built her reputation on time-tested practices, spending plenty of time with her patients in order to develop the ideal treatment plan for their unique needs. When she founded Foot & Ankle Specialty Group in 2001, she wanted to establish a clinic where athletes, active people, families, and individuals could arrive with foot and ankle issues and begin a journey to get them back on their feet. Now with Dr. Petrina Yokay and Dr. Jessica Arneson, Foot & Ankle Specialty Group is a professional and nurturing female surgeon group of foot and ankle specialists offering in-office treatments as well as surgical procedures for patients of all kinds.
