How Stem Cells Reshape Joint Health 😍😌

Name: How Stem Cells Reshape Joint Health 😍😌
Uploaded: 2024-03-01T13:01:00+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how stem cell therapy can help patients avoid joint replacement surgery. A decade-long study through the Cell Surgical Network…

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how stem cell therapy can help patients avoid joint replacement surgery. A decade-long study through the Cell Surgical Network tracked safety outcomes, and many patients treated with stem cells never needed knee replacements, though some required repeat treatments.

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About 2014.

About a decade (long-term, roughly ten years).

A few hundred physicians.

Most did not need knee replacements.

Then we have stem cell therapy that is emerging as a very good alternative to joint replacement. I was in a group called the Cell Surgical Network with a few hundred physicians and we had done a long term IRB study, institutional review board study, mostly looking at the safety of stem cell use over many years. Think about a decade, started about 2014. And our studies and others found that most people who had stem cell therapy for the joints did not need knee replacements. The stem cells were sufficient. Something that might need to be repeated, I guess, like a joint replacement would fail over time. This can put off a jo.