Imagine a world in which your doctor can use your body’s own resources to help you overcome musculoskeletal damage, whether due to injury or degeneration. Well, thanks to protocols like platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections and stem cell therapy, that world is here and accessible.
At No Mercy Sports Medicine, Dr. Moisés Irizarry-Román specializes in sports medicine and musculoskeletal injuries. Seeing the potential for his patients, Dr. Irizarry-Román has been steering our Miami, Florida, practice toward regenerative orthopedics, which offers some great benefits that we review here.
The focus of orthopedic medicine is repairing musculoskeletal damage to retain function — and this has largely been accomplished through interventional practices. These interventions rely on using outside resources to repair and heal tissues and address symptoms. Examples of some common interventions include:
While effective, these interventions are working around your body as opposed to working with your body, which can pose issues. This is because your body is designed to be self-sufficient, and intervention can derail or confuse your body’s healing process, forcing your body to adapt and keep up with foreign influences.
With regenerative medicine, including stem cell therapy and PRP, we’re simply redirecting your body’s own resources — stem cells and platelets — which makes your body more efficient during the healing process.
Because the goal of regenerative orthopedics is to use resources that already exist inside of you, your body readily accepts regenerative treatments like stem cell therapy and PRP injections. This means you don’t have to worry about reactions, rejections, or other ways in which your body can respond negatively to outside interventions.
Each year in the United States, doctors perform about 790,000 knee replacement surgeries and 544,000 hip replacement surgeries. And this number is growing thanks to an aging population.
Our goal with regenerative orthopedics is to delay joint replacement as long as possible. With regenerative medicine, we can use multipotent stem cells that can become other cells — cells that can help improve the health of your joint, including:
As you can see, these cells make up the necessary ingredients needed to improve your joint health so you can delay, or even prevent, joint replacement.
The bottom line is that there’s a lot to be excited about when it comes to regenerative orthopedics, and we’re pleased to offer this effective new approach to our patients.
To explore how regenerative orthopedics can improve your musculoskeletal health, request an appointment today. We invite you to contact No Mercy Sports Medicine by calling 305-614-6757 or sending a message via our online form.
