Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Pamela Mehta MD
Orthopedic Surgeon in San Jose
Dr. Pamela Mehta is an experienced orthopedic surgeon renowned for her expertise in sports injuries and joint arthritis. She is the founder of Resilience Orthopedics.
With an impressive career and training under leading innovators, she has served as Chief of Orthopedics and National Orthopedic Director for a major orthopedic hospitalist group and advises several publicly traded companies.
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What is Regenerative Medicine?
Regenerative medicine is a new and emerging branch of medicine that uses biological products to promote healing. In regenerative medicine, damaged tissue in your joints is replaced with new healthy tissue.
Using innovative and cutting edge techniques, regenerative medicine helps our joints to heal. These either encourage your body to re-grow the tissue itself or by implanting new tissue. In both cases, we use the body’s own cells so the body can heal itself using natural repair processes.
At Resilience Orthopedics we offer two main types of regenerative medicine treatments:
- Platelet-rich plasma therapy (PRP)
- Stem cell therapy (including formulations like Lipogems and Clarix)
This is a fairly new field, but we have plenty of patients who have been helped by these new treatments. Sometimes regenerative medicine therapies are used as a definitive treatment for a condition. Whereas at other times it is used to buy time before proceeding to surgery or joint replacement.
This sometimes means procedures aren’t covered by insurance, but can be paid out-of-pocket using the concierge service Dr. Mehta offers.
Many athletes including have undergone regenerative medicine techniques. Therapies such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and stem cell injections helped get them back in action. This includes:
- Tiger Woods
- Steph Curry
- Rafael Nadal
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What are Orthobiologics?
Orthobiologics is just another word for regenerative medicine, when specifically applied to orthopedics. We offer orthobiologics at our clinic in San Jose as part of our treatment service. The difference is:
- Regenerative medicine can be used in many areas such, as hair loss and cosmetics
- Orthobiologics are specific treatments for joint, muscle, ligament, and cartilage injuries and conditions.
Orthobiologics usually include doses of growth factors, stem cells, and other healing molecules. These are injected directly to the injured site to aid healing. The potent ingredients stimulate your cells to rebuild damaged tissue and reduce inflammation.
Regenerative medicine techniques specific to orthopedics include:
- Platelet-rich plasma
- Stem cell therapy
- Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate (BMAC)
While there is a huge potential of orthobiologics, keep in mind that they’re still evolving. Research is ongoing to determine their long-term efficacy and safety for different conditions. It’s important to note that each type of treatment has their own benefits.
Compare PRP with stem cell treatment to decide which might be better for you.
What Conditions Can Be Treated with Regenerative Medicine?
Regenerative medicine is a new and evolving field, with new therapies are coming out all the time.
The aim of regenerative medicine is to help the body repair any damage and reduce the pain you suffer from your joint condition. This can help avoid any need for surgery or can buy more time before you require a joint replacement.
Conditions we treat with regenerative medicine in include:
- Arthritis of the large joints (hip, knee, shoulder)
- Other forms of osteoarthritis
- Tendinitis, such as bicep tendinitis
- Sports injuries and muscle or tendon tears, such as rotator cuff tear
- Ligament injuries, such as ACL tear and shoulder separation
- Cartilage injuries such as meniscus tear
- Plantar Fasciitis
When your joint tissue, such as muscle, cartilage, and ligaments, becomes damaged, your body can heal so much. With regenerative medicine, we enhance your body’s healing process. To do this we inject stem cells or platelet-rich plasma (PRP) into the joint.
If your joints have become damaged or arthritic over time due to wear and tear, there is little your body can do to heal. There is no direct blood supply to the cartilage within joints, so it lacks some of the healing properties of other body tissue. We use PRP or stem cells to stimulate a healing process within your joints.
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About Platelet-rich plasma (PRP)
Platelet-rich plasma injections are an advanced regenerative medicine technique. This therapy uses your body’s platelets to help your joint tissue to heal.
PRP can help musculoskeletal conditions after injury by:
- Improving healing
- Reducing inflammation
- Improving symptoms of chronic conditions
Platelets are a type of blood cell which help the body with clotting and the tissue repair process. Plasma is the fluid part of your blood and contains many growth factors, helping new healthy growth.
Treatment with platelet-rich plasma first involves your blood being drawn. This is then placed in a centrifuge to separate the platelet-rich plasma.
We then take your plasma, which now has a high concentration of platelets, and inject it into your joint. This process is like cortisone injections and is safe with minimal side effects.
The whole procedure takes no longer than thirty minutes from start to finish. Platelet-rich plasma is natural, non-toxic, and non-allergenic, as it only involves cells from your own body.
Stem Cell Treatment
Stem cell treatment is another form of advanced regenerative medicine therapy we offer at our clinic in San Jose. Stem cells can become many other different types of cells. These cells are present in your body and help with normal growth and healing. In your joints, stem cells help stimulate new growth when the joint is damaged.
Sometimes your joints will lack natural stem cells. This is especially true if you suffer from a degenerative condition in your joints, such as tendonitis or arthritis. Your body can’t heal itself from wear and tear damage because it doesn’t have enough stem cells left.
Stem cell therapy is used for patients who have not had success with other treatments, or those who want to avoid surgery. Arthritis symptoms can be improved by stem cell treatment for knees, shoulders, and other joints. The treatment is suitable for adults who are suffering from joint degeneration.
Stem cell treatments are safe, effective, and can help you to recover quicker. It is often more efficient than with traditional orthopedic treatments.
Sometimes we harvest these cells from your own body (autologus), and other times we get them from a donor (allogenic). There are several different places these stem cells come from, including:
- Adipose (fat) tissue taken from the abdomen or thigh
- Blood, seperated into its components in a centrifuge
- Umbilical cord blood
- Bone marrow, such as from the hip
We offer several different kinds of stem cell treatment, including:
Lipogems®
Lipogems® is a type of “autograft” stem cell treatment taken from your adipose tissue (fat cells).
Clarix FLO®
Clarix FLO® is an “allograft” treatment which comes from umbilical stem cells.
Amniofix®
Amniofix® is another type of allograft stem cell treatment which comes from dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane (DHACM).
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What Regenerative Medicine Services Do We Offer?
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP)
PRP injections use the plasma in your own blood to help boost your body's healing capabilities. It is a new an emerging treatment that could help you to avoid a surgical procedure.
Stem Cell Injections
Stem cell injections are a cutting-edge treatment to help provide "fresh" cells to areas where your body cannot heal itself. This is an innovative treatment for orthopedic conditions.
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