John Wright had severe shoulder pain that limited him to 50% function until Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter treated it with PRP, bone marrow aspirate, and stem-cell therapies at Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics. He recovered to 95-98% without surgery, with downtime shrinking from 1.5 weeks to just one day across three procedures.
Questions this video answers
PRP (platelet-rich plasma), bone marrow aspirate, and stem cell treatments (orthobiologics).
"Back to 95, 98%" (patient quote).
First procedure: about a week and a half; second: about three days; third: about one day.
Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics.
Chapters
All right, I have got Mr. John Wright in here with us today. He is. Has done amazingly well. John, we saw you for your right shoulder. First time was a couple November. You were having some severe pain.
24. Yes. I couldn't sleep on it at night.
Severe pain came to us, and we decided that surgery really wasn't the best option for you.
Well, if you had the finances, we decided it was.
Yeah.
Not the option we wanted to go.
Right. And so we decided to do some treatments with orthobiologics. We did prp. We also did some treatments with bone marrow aspirate.
Right.
And stem cells. And stem cell. And he's done absolutely amazingly well. So what was your life before we started here at Penn?
Minimal amount of usage of my right arm. And it was probably maybe 50%.
Yeah, I don't remember. It was stiff. Yeah, it was stiff.
I couldn't sleep on it at night.
Yeah. So pretty debilitating. Like a lot of people's shoulders. Right. And so what's life like now?
Oh, it's back to 95, 98%. Occasionally it feels like it falls out of the socket, but that's a muscle issue.
So you're still working on strengthening.
Right.
And that's really important for people to recognize that even though we can heal your tissues, you still have to work on strengthening those muscles up. Right. And so what did you try before you came to Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics, before.
You came and saw us being gay?
So we tried some things that we rubbed on there. Had you seen anybody and you talked to anybody about it?
No.
Great. So. And when did you finally decide to get some help with this problem?
When we came up with a treatment plan.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah. And so what has made the biggest difference, do you think, in the treatment of your shoulder since we started?
Well, the movement and the lack of pain.
Great. What's your favorite part of the program?
The lack of pain.
And we didn't have to do any surgery.
Right?
Right.
We went through a couple of first round of shots that can be kind of sore, a little difficult.
And then you started to see some pretty drastic improvements.
Oh, yeah, it's changed real quick.
Great. And so what would you say to somebody who's considering coming here to Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics to do these types of treatments?
Beats the hell out of surgery.
Agree with that. Yeah, agree with that.
It does take a little time, but value schedule, but it's worth it.
And it's. How much downtime did you have after each procedure?
Well, the first procedure, it was a good week and a half. Second procedure might have been three days. And the third procedure was one day.
Wonderful. So we never had to spend any time in a sling. Never had to limit your weight bearing.
Yeah. After the first go round.
Oh, we did have a sling. Yeah. You had a little bit more of an extensive.
Yeah.
Problem that we treated. He had some calcium deposited in his tendon that we treated with prp.
Right.
All right. Well, that is great. So come and see us. Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics. John Wright has done absolutely amazing. Let's see how high you can raise that thing. All the way up and all the way out. Hold it up strong. That's great. All right, my friend. Good job.
