What is Regenerative Medicine?
Harnessing the Power of Your Own Biologic Media
Regenerative medicine is an innovative field of healthcare that leverages your body’s natural healing properties to restore damaged tissues and promote recovery. This specialized approach focuses on employing scientifically backed techniques to extract and utilize your body's own biologic materials, including stem cells, growth factors, and bio-scaffolding—not embryonic stem cells, but your own adult stem cells.
Rather than simply alleviating symptoms, regenerative medicine aims to replace, engineer, or regenerate human cells and tissues, targeting the underlying causes of injury and disease. By harnessing these advanced treatments, patients can experience improved healing and restore normal function in affected areas. Explore the transformative potential of regenerative medicine and how it can help you recover and regain your quality of life.
PRP Therapy: Accelerating Healing Naturally
PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma) therapy harnesses the healing power of your body by using injections filled with a concentrated amount of your own platelets. This innovative treatment accelerates the healing of injured joints, muscles, ligaments, and tendons by combining your body's natural regenerative abilities with cutting-edge medical and scientific techniques. When an injury occurs, your body utilizes the healing components in your blood to stop bleeding and repair damage.
The healing properties contained in your blood include platelets, growth factors, and specialized proteins. At STAR Health, our PRP therapy is derived from processing a sample of your own blood, ensuring a high concentration of these vital healing elements.
Stem Cell Therapy: Transformative Healing
Stem cell therapy involves using stem cells to treat or prevent various diseases and conditions. Stem cells are remarkable cells that can transform into specialized cells based on your body’s needs. Bone marrow and fat are rich sources of mesenchymal stem cells, which can differentiate into specialized cells that repair injured tendons, cartilage, and ligaments. Importantly, these mesenchymal stem cells possess impressive signaling capabilities that recruit powerful healing factors from your immune system. At STAR Health, we utilize your own tissue or biologic media for these therapies and do not use embryonic stem cells.
Conditions Treated with Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Fortin utilizes regenerative medicine to heal diseased and injured tissues. Conditions that can benefit from these advanced therapies include:
What to Expect During Regenerative Medicine Treatments
At STAR Health, regenerative medicine procedures are performed on an outpatient basis. Dr. Fortin and his skilled nursing staff begin by harvesting the necessary blood, bone marrow, or fat to create your PRP or stem cell therapy. Utilizing advanced image-guided technology, he will inject the PRP or stem cells directly into the injured joint, disc, tendon, or diseased tissue.
How Long Does It Take to See Results from Regenerative Medicine?
It is common for patients to experience increased discomfort for up to 10 days following their regenerative medicine treatments. However, most patients report a reduction in pain and improved mobility within three days to one week.
To optimize your results, a tailored rehabilitation or physical therapy program will be created by STAR Health, typically lasting 6 to 8 weeks to ensure thorough relief of your symptoms and restoration of function. While many patients find relief from just one treatment, some may require two or three sessions. Dr. Fortin will recommend a specific treatment plan based on your diagnosis and individual health needs.
To learn more about how regenerative medicine can facilitate your healing journey, call STAR Health today or schedule an appointment online.