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

A Renewed Life: From Pain to Possibility Part 5

1 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt of a YouTube video in which Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter discusses a patient's treatment for avascular necrosis of the femoral head. The physician describes drilling into the femoral head and injecting stem cell bone marrow aspirate in an outpatient procedure that took about an hour; the patient reports little discomfort and quick recovery.

Questions this video answers

Avascular necrosis of the femoral head (loss of blood supply to the top of the thigh-bone ball).

A hole was drilled into the femoral head and stem cell bone marrow aspirate was injected into that area.

About an hour.

Outpatient.

The patient reported not much discomfort; 'I was out. I didn't know anything was going on.'

Did you have much discomfort?
Not as much, but I had some. It didn't work right away, but eventually it's working.
Just to explain a little bit about what he had, he has a process that's called avascular necrosis, which means the top of the ball is thigh bone and his hip has lost its blood supply or had lost its blood supply. And so what we did there was we took and we drilled a hole up into that portion of the femoral head and we injected our stem cell bone marrow aspirate into that area. It took us about an hour to do. It was an outpatient procedure. It was really pretty easy. What was the procedure like for?
I am good. I was out. I didn't know anything was going on.
Right. And after the procedure, did you have much discomfort?
Not as much, but I had some. It didn't work right away, but eventually it's worked.