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

BMAC: Unlocking the Power of Stem Cell Treatments

23 May 2023 · 1 min

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Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) as an orthobiologics/stem-cell treatment. He describes the typical procedure—numbing the back of the pelvis, inserting a needle into the bone, and aspirating bone marrow—and identifies components in marrow (platelets and mesenchymal stem cells). He characterizes mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as pluripotential cells that can differentiate into tendon, cartilage, muscle, or fat tissues.

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A small area in the back of the pelvis (site is numbed).

About 60 cc of bone marrow.

Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC).

Pluripotential — can become tendon, cartilage, muscle tissue, or fat.

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BMAC is a really fascinating process that we can use to get extremely potent orthobiologics treatments focused and directed in one of these areas that we talked about. So, bone marrow aspirate. Another name for bone marrow aspirate is stem cell treatment. Basically, what we do is we take some of your bone marrow, and typically this is accomplished by taking and numbing up a small area in the back of your pelvis. And then we insert a small needle into the bone and. And we suck out about 60cc of your bone marrow, just like we did with the blood. Now, bone marrow fascinatingly has platelets in it as well, but it also has a cell called an msc. Mesenchymal stem cell. The mesenchymal stem cell is one of those famous cells that can sort of change what it becomes. And so a stem cell can become either a tendon or cartilage. It can become muscle tissue. In some cases, it can become a fat tissue. It's called pluripotential, which means it can become any of these types of tissues.