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Name: Stem Cell Therapy For The Knees
Uploaded: 2024-05-22T16:00:05+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how stem cell therapy could help people avoid knee replacement surgery. Knee replacements cost the U.S. about $100 billion a…

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Stem Cell Therapy For The Knees

22 May 2024 · 0 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how stem cell therapy could help people avoid knee replacement surgery. Knee replacements cost the U.S. about $100 billion a year and often leave patients with ongoing pain and complications. Stem cell therapy aims to regrow tissue instead.

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$100 billion per year

What are the most common areas we use stem cells at for orthopedic issues such as degenerative Derrick arthritis? By far the most common is the knees. That's a very common issue. We spend in America about $100 billion a year doing knee replacements, which has a significant morbidity rate, which means complication rate. A lot of people still have pain afterwards. And once you have that knee replacement, is the clock ticking before you have to have it done again? So a lot of people are wishing to push that out as long as possible, maybe even forever, by doing stem cell therapy to help regrow some tissue.