How Bone Marrow Injections Fix Arthritic Damage

To get an mri, you can see inflammation in the bone. Well, that's microscopically fractured.

So we actually do osteoplasties with bone marrow aspirate. So you actually can inject it into the bone. Oftentimes when you have some of those more severe arthritic joints, the bone where it's, you know, you know, talk about the deformity, the bone on the side of the deformity will have a lot of inflammation. If you get an mri, you can see inflammation in the bone. Well, that's microscopically fracture. And so we can actually heal that and reduce that pain very significantly by injecting directly into the bone in those areas. That's something that's done really frequently in those patients. We slow them down a little bit more. It can be four to six weeks before they go back to their full activities, but they can put as much weight on it as they want. Starting the day we do the procedure.