Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

60x More Healing Power

21 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains why bone marrow aspirate works as an orthobiologics treatment: it contains about 60 times more mesenchymal stem cells and healing proteins than whole blood. The process involves aspirating marrow, concentrating it, and customizing the formulation for different tissues like tendons or joints.

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About 60 times more.

Aspirate bone marrow, centrifuge (spin it down), and isolate/tune the desired cells and formulations for the target tissue (e.g., tendon vs joint).

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There's 60 times more of that in bone marrow. So bone marrow aspirate is our most powerful orthobiologics treatment. Mesenchymal stem cells also have about 60 times more of those healthy materials that we need to heal your injury. So as far as human growth factor and interleukins and all of these proteins and substances that we need to get tissue to heal and inflammation to lessen, there's 60 times more of that in bone marrow. So bone marrow aspirate is our most powerful orthobiologics treatment. What we do is basically we take the BL, or bone marrow, just like we did with your whole blood, and we spin it down and we isolate those cells that we want, and we can tune that concentration to actually the type of tissue that we want to treat. So that if we want to treat a tendon, we use a certain type of formulation of the stem cell or platelet that if we want to treat inside a joint, we use another type of formulation. So we can actually customize that to the location and to the patient's needs.