Center of Excellence in Pain & Regenerative Medicine
Center of Excellence in Pain & Regenerative Medicine | High-Performance Medicine, Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) and Interventional Pain Management

Are you using Regenerative Therapies to become a high-performance athlete?

August 2, 2021

What is regenerative medicine?

Regenerative medicine is a multidisciplinary specialty and a branch of translational research in tissue engineering and molecular biology, which encompasses replacing, engineering, or regenerating human cells, tissues, or organs to restore or establish normal function. 

Regenerative medicine offers a transformative approach to healthcare, with the promise of repairing damaged tissues and organs by stimulating the body's repair mechanisms to heal previously irreparable tissues or organs functionally. 

Your body, sports injury, and repetitive injury, and typical sports injury

Think about the human anatomy diagram of the muscular system, which shows muscles, tendons, and ligaments. We all depend on these systems to perform synchronously, and when the correct muscle group is engaged, we experience the proper form and function. It enables our body to give the best output when playing sports, activity, or even resting. 

And when we injure ourselves, we have impacted one of the systems of the muscular group where the injury occurred. This injury may be a ligament, tendon, or muscle injury. Tendon and ligament injury healing is difficult as it has poor blood flow (think about all the grey areas you see on the muscular system diagram) and may not heal completely. This injury often keeping re-occurring and later become problematic. An athlete cannot afford this and the downtime from such an injury. 

Steroid injection and physical therapies can help with acute pain and may be necessary to treat pain then. However, it does not treat the micro-tears sitting in the tendons, ligaments, and muscles. Often, imaging does not pick up these micro-tears, which are not treated and are the root cause of repetitive injuries. 

Common sports injuries:

  1. Sprains and Strains
  2. Achilles Tendonitis
  3. plantar fasciitis
  4. shin splints
  5. Runners’ knee
  6. Rotator cuff Tendonitis
  7. elbow Tendonitis (Golfer elbow, Tennis elbow)
  8. back sprain, strain 
  9. Tears

And how often do you hear someone had to quit their sport or game due to an injury because they did not have a 100% recovery and could not perform at the same level as before their injury.

What do high-performing athletes do about their sports injuries?

Regenerative therapies, Interventional Orthopedics, and Interventional Pain Management have made significant progress over the past 20 years. Athletes visited clinics in Germany, Italy, Costa Rica, Panama, and other South American countries with inadequate medical regulations to treat athletes with Stem cells and other biologics banned by United States FDA. 

Outcomes, treatment, and methodology, while reputable at some, were always questionable at many due to limited research and ethics. 

Research at reputable institutes worldwide has paved the way for regenerative therapies to take center stage and is slowly becoming mainstream in the United States. 

This research has enabled physicians like Dr. Roshni Patel to bring cutting-edge science and treatments to her clinic and help patients looking for alternatives to surgery and get their function restored and perform at equal or better pre-injury levels. 

It is amazing how science and medicine have enabled athletes to perform at peak level way into their 40's and beyond. 

What can you do after a sports injury?

Besides immediately consulting with your medical provider to get treated for the injury, seek out an interventional field expert physicians to seek alternatives and options. Physicians like Dr. Patel, trained at the Hospital of Special Surgery (HSS) and NYU Medical school with fellowship-trained in Interventional Pain Management, can evaluate and identify the root cause of injuries and pain. 

Treating the injury with non-surgical intervention is key to faster and complete recovery. Surgery is only recommended as a last resort when all other options have been exhausted. 

Patients treated with regenerative therapy can benefit from such treatments and are looking for a shorter recovery post-injury. Dr. Patel uses image guidance to inject the PRP or BMAC Stem cells expertly into the area of injury. This injection creates a cascading healing process that utilizes your body's stem cells to help repair the injured area. 

Can you get regenerative therapy without a sports injury?

Yes, this is suitable for a patient looking to treat musculoskeletal injuries, joint pain, arthritis, wear and tear, degeneration, and individuals looking to stay ahead of the aging process and age healthily. 

How does it help with high-performance?

Ligament and Tendon tears are not easy to heal due to insufficient blood supply. tears on ligaments and tendons due to sprain often lead to joint instability. These tears do not heal one hundred percent, and even if the athlete or patient feels better, these injuries over time are bound to be repetitive. 

Regenerative therapy aims to complete the healing process and aid the body in recovering from injury. Remodeling of the collagen fibers helps to restore the tissue to healthy function. 

At the Center of Excellence in Pain and Regenerative Medicine, we treat damaged ligaments and tendons in the body from head to toe. Joint injuries are notorious for acute pain and chronic injury as they are subjected to high levels of strain and wear. We use platelet-rich plasma

injections to stimulate cellular regeneration. The most common injuries

we treat using PRP are as follows:

  • Osteoarthritis & joint pain
  • Rotator cuff injuries
  • Shoulder pain and instability
  • Tennis & golfer's elbow
  • Hamstring and hip strains
  • Knee sprains and instability
  • Patellofemoral syndrome and patellar tendinosis
  • Ankle sprains
  • Achilles tendinosis & plantar fasciitis
  • Neck, mid-back & lower back pain
  • Sports injuries, sprains, strains, and tears

Once you have completed a consultation with a specialist, we can pinpoint the source of your pain and use enhanced image guidance tools to ensure the plasma is delivered directly into the injury site. This methodology allows for the highest potency of platelets to be exposed to the damaged tissues, providing the building blocks for cellular regeneration.

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