Recovery Period For Bone Marrow Aspirate

Name: Recovery Period For Bone Marrow Aspirate
Uploaded: 2025-03-31T12:00:54+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short Q&A clip (Dr. Charles Mok) about recovery after bone-marrow aspirate or fat/stem-cell injections. The clinician says they perform osteoplasties…

31 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Short Q&A clip (Dr. Charles Mok) about recovery after bone-marrow aspirate or fat/stem-cell injections. The clinician says they perform osteoplasties with bone marrow aspirate, allow immediate weight-bearing as tolerated, and advise slowing activity with a mobility/exercise program to reduce inflammation. Typical return-to-full-activity guidance is ~4–6 weeks for many patients, with some protocols extending up to three months; the clinician emphasizes minimal or no downtime.

Questions this video answers

Patients can put as much weight on it as they want starting the day of the procedure.

About four to six weeks for many patients.

Up to three months.

The clinician states there is no downtime.

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After somebody has stem cell treatment with bone maraspirate or stem cells, often the fat, what are you telling them to do? What's the recovery period? What are you recommending they do afterwards in terms of activity and mobility?
We actually do osteoplasties with bone maraspirate. So you actually can inject it into the bone. In those patients, we slow them down a little bit more. It can be four to six weeks before they go back to their full activities, but they can put as much weight on it as they want. Starting the day, we do the procedure. In the case of bone maraspirate or prp, if I have a really active person, I want their joint to sort of calm down, right? Because part of our problem is inflammation. And so we to do an exercise program with mobility for about four to six weeks before they go back to their more normal activities. I have a whole protocol that we use and it can be up, up to three months before they go back to their full activities. But the, but the benefit is they have no, no downtown.