Kenny Lofton got stem cell injections at Allure Medical for knee cartilage damage and says his pain dropped significantly. He can sit on planes again and do activities he couldn't before. The clinic reports typical outcomes of 50-80% pain reduction lasting 3-7 years.
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The issue that brought me here to Allure Medical is my cartilage damage in my knee. Hi, I'm Kenny Lofton, a former major league baseball player, played for 17 years in the majors. And the bottom line, my body has a lot of wear and tear in it and I just need something to help the pain, help regenerate some of the cartilage in my knee. And for me, it is the stem cell. I still want to do the things I did when I was younger and this is just going to help me just go along with now. I'm not going to be great. I'll be okay.
I met Kenny Lofton about five years ago. One of my patients, his cousin Darrell Thomas, brought him in here and he got a lot of improvement in his knees to the point where he was golfing and back to playing full court basketball. Darrell brought his cousin Kenny in to see us and we got to do a stem cell treatment on his knee. And I've seen him improve and get back to the things he loves to do. He just called me up and said, hey, I to do another treatment. He was feeling the pain starting to come back a little bit. And I said, well, he's not slowing down, so let's go ahead and do another treatment. He's trying to avoid getting any type of surgery and it's been really improving his quality of life.
Stem cells are the cells that grow new cells. The current common use in regenerative medicine is for restoring function, decreasing pain and disability in people with arthritic joints. And the cells in there, they become what's called senescent and they stop getting replaced by new fresh cells. And the stem cells are pretty much inactive. Now if we take a stem cell from some other part of your body or from some other source and place it in the joint, it actually wakes them back up and allows stem cells that have been inactive to start growing again, replacing some cartilage, reducing pain and disability and dysfunction. Most people get more than a 50% reduction, somewhere between 50 and 80% reduction in pain and disability. That'll last somewhere between three and seven years.
There's really no downtime to it. You can get up, walk into the office, and they're back to doing their typical activity that same day. Just finished your injection. How do you feel?
Let's see. Woo. My treatment has been great for me. I was always not being able to be on a plane, sit on a plane, and I have to always stand up, get up, walk around because I got that stiffness in my knee joint because of the pain. But actually after my first injection, like two months later, I was able to sit on the plane the whole time without pain. That was a change and I knew I was coming back to get me some treatment. I think it changed my life just as a normal everyday life. I was walking in pain almost 24 7, laying in bed, pain, walking around pain. And this treatment helped me be able to walk around and feel like I'm relevant, you know, I can relevant and do stuff again. I was also waking up because of the achiness of the knee. And once the stem cell treatment started, I wasn't waking up like I was. You know, me living in LA is tough for me to get to the east coast out here, but I do make time to get out here and get my stem cell treatment. But one thing about Allure Medical, they like your feedback. I think the feedback helps them help you and help other people. I like the staff, I like Danielle and her crew. They're just so awesome. They make you feel welcome, they make you feel comfortable.
I've seen so many get their quality of life back and get back to what they've been always wanting to do. And it's been invigorating seeing those patients get better and not have to go through a long recovery of surgery.
I always tell people, you know, a lot of things come with a price and it's not as expensive as people think. But if you have that opportunity to save up some money, get the treatment, and you will see why people are getting stem cell now. It's because you see the difference right away.
If you're being bothered by knee pain, hip pain, joint pain, arthritis, give us a call because we definitely have options for you. We can do a consultation, we can get you set up for same day treatments and we can get you feeling your best.
