Regenerative Medicine for Healing Arthritis Pain
The knee is the most significant and complex joint in the human body. Like many other things, the longer we use something, the quicker it wears down…
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Regenerative Medicine Therapy for Foot and Ankle Pain
Foot and ankle injuries are common, especially with professional athletes, sports enthusiasts, dancers, and those who are always active. And depending on the extent of the injury…
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How Can Regenerative Medicine Help You?
When injured or when hit with a disease, our bodies have the instinctive response to heal and defend. With modern advance, there is a way for us to harness the power of the body to heal.
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Can Regenerative medicine effectively treat degenerative disc disease?
Have you been encountering back or neck pain for some time now? Did you know that this kind of pain is one of the most common symptoms of degenerative disc disease?
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How Effective is our San Ramon Regenerative Medicine Therapy for Hip Pain?
Do you have any pain anywhere on your side? If you do, it very well could be hip pain even if it’s not felt directly in the hip joint. Hip pain can radiate out all the way down…
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Dehydration Causes Joint Pain
Dehydration is more than about being thirsty. In fact, roughly 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. Not drinking enough water can lead to fatigue…
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Your Body Can Heal Itself from Chronic Pain
The regenerative cells (stem cells) in our body lay down the groundwork for all other cells to be made. As we enter adulthood, we have regenerative cells…
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Pain Free Way to Treat Injuries
Pain that starts from the shoulder or rotator cuff can make doing the easiest tasks seem like a chore. It’s an area that is very prone to injury…
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Recover and Repair Your Shoulder
Shoulder pain can prevent you from doing normal daily activities. If the pain in your shoulder has been interfering with your normal activities…
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How Do Micronutrients Impact Health?
Micronutrients support a variety of roles and processes within the body. When we don’t get enough of even one essential micronutrient, it can cause us…
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Managing Stress During This Stressful Time
As the events surrounding the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak unfold before our eyes, it’s understandable to be feeling increased levels of stress. It doesn’t help…
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Is regenerative medicine step forward treating arthritis pain?
There are over 350 million people afflicted with arthritis worldwide, with roughly 40 million people in the United States affected by arthritis. It’s not surprising…
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Does Insurance Cover Regenerative Medicine Procedures?
This is a common question we hear in our clinic and see on Facebook. The thing is, it can be hard to know if insurance will cover certain regenerative medicine procedures…
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Tips for Preventing Knee Injuries
You can help prevent knee pain and injuries by doing the following: Maintain healthy weight, Wear shoes that fit well…
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How does regenerative medicine compare to other treatments?
The field of regenerative medicine has gained a great deal of attention, even excitement, over the past few years. The possibility of us having…
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Understanding the Benefits of Regenerative Medicine
It’s common to think of regenerative medicine as a medical advancement that will come way in the future, or at least in the next ten years…
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Stem Cell Therapy for Degenerative Disc Disease
According to the National Institutes of Health, in the United States, low back pain is the most common health problem for adults under the age of 50. Treating low back pain can be challenging for many reasons.
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Is Surgery the Only Option for Meniscus Repairs?
A torn meniscus is possibly the most common knee injury. We have two menisci in each knee – they’re the C-shaped pieces of cartilage that essentially act as a cushion between the upper and lower leg bones.
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How Regenerative Medicine Helps Joint Pain
Joint pain can range from mild to disabling and the discomfort can really hinder your daily life. A joint is a place where two or more bones meet, with pain or inflammation coming from any point of a joint, including bone, ligaments, cartilage, muscles, and tendons.
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How Does Regenerative Medicine Compare to Steroids and Surgery?
When it comes to addressing chronic pain, traditional medicine is, unfortunately, is often limited to the use of steroids, opioids, or surgery. The introduction of regenerative medicine has opened doors to more sophisticated solutions in treating deteriorating conditions and injuries.
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How Regenerative Cell Therapy Works
The field of medicine is always advancing and evolving, especially as new technology emerges. One such advancement is regenerative medicine, which provides patients suffering from a wide range of conditions the chance to be pain-free without the need for invasive methods, such as surgery.
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Regenerative Medicine vs. Knee Surgery
In America, knee pain is a very common condition doctors have to face. The frequency of knee pain in the United States is roughly 19%, with the number gradually increasing with age.
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Regenerative Medicine Versus Knee Surgery: Pros and Cons
Those with bad knees know how much it hurts to live life. Simple things like moving bring about pain with each step they take, causing them to dread even getting out of bed each morning.
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Platelet Rich Plasma Treatment: What Is the Success Rate?
Whether you have thinning hair or are losing it entirely, it can leave devastating effects on your self-esteem. Hair loss can happen because of a number of reasons, including genetics, health reasons, cancers, medications or other health conditions. But regardless of the reason why you’re suffering from hair loss, its effects can be more than just physical.
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The Prevalence of Osteoarthritis
According to the Arthritis Foundation, roughly 30 million people are living with pain from a wear-and-tear form of arthritis, better known as osteoarthritis. It is the most common cause of disability among adults and is most common in the knees.
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What We Can Do for Healthy Joints
Joints that are healthy are comprised of two bones in your body with a cushion made of synovial fluid and cartilage, which are held in place by synovial membranes and ligaments. on the other hand, when a joint is unhealthy and worn out over the years of usage, it results in deterioration of that synovial fluid, as well as the destruction of the cartilage.
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Regenerative Medicine Could Be a Possible Treatment for Shingles
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States will develop shingles, also known as herpes zoster, in their lifetime. The American Academy of Dermatology describes shingles as a painful, blistering rash. And anyone who has had chickenpox has the possibility of developing shingles because the virus remains inside of the body.
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Regenerative Medicine for Dummies
Do you not know what stems cells are but act like you do when asked? Read any articles about the dangers of using stem cells and how it will eventually lead humans to genetically engineering the perfect child? Breathe in. Breathe out.
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Stem cell research: Nerve damage
According to John Hopkins Medicine, “peripheral nerve” is a term interchangeably used to define the peripheral nervous system. It is a system that has a network of 43 pairs of motors and sensory nerves which link the brain and spinal cord (aka the central nervous system) to the entire body.
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Facet Joint Syndrome
Spinal facet disease is a common cause of neck pain and can cause pain at any level of the spine. Also called facet joint syndrome, it occurs when the facet joints along your spine become injured, inflamed, swollen or when the cartilage around the joints begins to weaken. This syndrome generally starts as an aching…
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Stem Cell Therapy vs Hip Replacement
Hip pain can be a difficult thing to deal with on an everyday basis and usually requires some form of pain management if the issue is not corrected. Generally, the first solution is hip surgery and it is often one of the only medical options offered to a patient dealing with debilitating pain. Hip surgeries…
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Osteoporosis & Stem Cell Therapy
Osteoporosis is the bodies failure to maintain tissue in the bones, causing them to become weak and fragile. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, around 54 million Americans have osteoporosis and low bone mass, which puts them at risk of getting osteoporosis. NOF also states that around one in two women and up to one…
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Rotator Cuff Injuries Could Be Healed With Stem Cells
When it comes to common shoulder problems like rotator cuff tears, these are usually dealt with surgical repair. The rotator cuff is a grouping of ligaments which help keep the ball of your upper-arm bone in your shoulder and it can get torn away from the bone. These muscles support the shoulder joint and give…
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Stem Cells and Arthritis
Arthritis is a disease that causes one or more of your joints to become inflamed. Not only does the joint slowly deteriorate, but inflammation occurs, which causes pain, stiffness, swelling, redness, and a decreased range of motion. The most common types of arthritis are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarthritis causes to break down, while rheumatoid…
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Regenerative Medicine for Foot and Ankle Injuries
Our feet and ankles are essential in nearly every activity we do. If you’re an active person, then you know exactly how important it is to have healthy, functioning ankles and feet. Unfortunately, injuries will happen, but it is important to know what therapies are available to you at Bay Area Stem Cell Therapy in…
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Regenerative Medicine for Knee Pain
Knee pain is one of the most common reasons for a person to visit the doctor. Even more so, knee pain is one of the leading symptoms for people to schedule an appointment with a physical therapist. Although some therapy will be required after you recover from a knee injury, all therapy doesn’t have to…
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PRP Therapy for Chronic Knee Pain
Are you tired of suffering from chronic knee pain? Arthritis can stop you from engaging in the same activities you love, but we have the solution for you. Here at Bay Area Stem Cell Therapy in San Ramon, our platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection therapy has successfully improved knee pain, tissue damage, cartilage deterioration, inflammation, and…
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Regenerative Medicine for Hip Pain and Osteonecrosis
Dealing with osteonecrosis is an everyday struggle as you fight your way through pain and discomfort. If you’re unfamiliar with the condition, osteonecrosis refers to a degenerative disease of bone cells commonly affecting the hips, knees, and areas surrounding your joints. About 20,000 Americans between the ages of 20 and 50 are diagnosed with osteonecrosis…
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The Effectiveness of PRP Therapy
Among the groundbreaking medical techniques that have become well-known to heal several chronic medical conditions, Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP) continues to show promising therapy results for several musculoskeletal injuries and dermatological conditions. PRP is a simple, non-surgical procedure that utilizes the body’s blood cells to amplify its natural ability to heal itself from conditions that…
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Osteoarthritis and Regenerative Medicine
Osteoarthritis is a common form of arthritis that affects over 30 million adults in the United States every year. This degenerative joint disease will typically affect the hands, shoulders, knees, hips, and spine. Osteoarthritis is caused by natural wear and tear in the joints that can affect almost every joint in the body. The problem…
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Stem Cell Therapy for Wrist Pain
Wrist pain is one of those injuries that interrupts a person’s life because without the use of hands, having fun and engaging in physical activities is painful and just not possible to enjoy. Fortunately, there is a therapy available that does not involve surgery or medication. At Bay Area Stem Cell Therapy in San Ramon,…
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Why Insurance Does Not Cover Stem Cell or PRP
Regenerative medicine. This is the term used to describe stem cell, platelet-rich plasma (PRP), stem cell, and regenerative tissue therapy. This form of therapy has the potential to assist in the recovery and regeneration of tissue for certain injuries and medical conditions. From osteoarthritis and torn ligaments to hair regrowth and rejuvenated skin, regenerative medicine…
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The Non-Surgical Alternative
Knee injuries can have a tremendous effect on people, especially, senior citizens. As people age, the bones in the body become more fragile, easier to brake, and the joints become easily irritated, which can …
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More Professional Athlete Avoid Surgery for PRP/Stem Cell Therapy
The Associated Press reported on Monday that another high-profile player from the NBA (National Basketball Association) has received Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy. According to sources, Reggie Jackson of …
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