I have high hopes. The receptionist has had one knee done and said it was the best thing she had done (Mom with a 4 or 5 year old to chase around), and the owner, to whom I have asked direct questions, has had them in his wrist.
The procedure I had several years ago, Synvisc-One, is like jello injected and then it sets up. But it only lasts for a year or less. I nursed mine for almost 18 months before I knew I needed it again if I was going to function at work and home. My friend told me about this pain relief center that her friend was going to...so off I went and they do have a different brand, Supartz, but they also told me about the regenerative stem cell option. Stem Cells? Babies? No way...they said that is the very first question they always get.
Women scheduling elective C-sections are the voluntary donors of the afterbirth. They are prescreened and everything is tested for safety. Then the cells are tested and all that other stuff so that they can be injected.
I asked how do they know to regenerate cartilage in the knee. He said the few cells left trying to fight the inflammation are jumping up and down and waving for the new cells to help with fighting the inflammation and start doing their work. And that is why NO ANTI INFLAMMITORIES for 2 months. They need the fighters to keep fighting and not be repressed by ibuprofen, etc. He said, and I have also heard, that sports injury docs are getting away from the ice treatment first...they need the fighter cells to fight in place.
So...onward!
It’s amazing the things they’re doing with stem cells. It seems like every time we turn around, we hear about something different. Normally it’s something do with growing different body parts and still in the experimental stage. But this is being put to use already and it seems with impressive results. Very interesting to learn something about it.
Now YOU just be careful and don’t so anything to mess up what they did to you. We want you on that skating rink at the mall one o’ these days, showing the kids how it’s done. LOL!
Ok, so not on the ice but won’t it be nice to just walk and not ache? HECK YEAH!!!