Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains bone marrow aspirate injections for osteoarthritis. The procedure harvests cells from your pelvis under local anesthesia, concentrates them, and injects them into the affected joint under ultrasound guidance. He calls it very safe and very effective for arthritis pain.
The patient's pelvis.
Ultrasound guidance.
Orthobiologics provides very powerful options for the treatment of moderate arthritis or even in some cases, more severe arthritis. Our most powerful option is bone marrow aspirate injection, also called stem cell. That's where we use your own body's bone marrow cells to treat your joint arthritis. In this case, we harvested bone marrow aspirate from the patient's pelvis. And what we do is we numb up an area of the pelvis and we go and put a small needle into the pelvis bone and and draw out those bone marrow cells and then use a centrifuge to ultra concentrate those cells. And then we inject them into the site using ultrasound guidance so that we can make sure that we get them all into the area that we want to treat. It's a very safe and very effective way to treat the pain of osteoarthritis. Come and see us and talk to us about it. We'd love to share this patient's story and many more patient stories with you.
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