Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter (Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics and Sports Medicine) explains that his practice will stop using intraarticular and extraarticular steroid injections and will instead use orthobiologics — treatments derived from a patient’s own blood or bone marrow to provide local anti-inflammatory and healing effects for longer-term joint pain relief.
For us here at Pinnacle Integrative Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, we are no longer going to perform intraarticular or extraarticular steroid injections. I don't think that it's good for our patients and we have very valuable and excellent alternatives to steroid medications. Here at Pinnacle, our focus is in orthobiologics treatment. This is the science of using your own tissue to heal you. We very simply can take your blood or bone marrow, we can isolate out the parts of that blood or bone marrow that can provide an anti inflammatory effect. Effect can be locally healing to your tissues and are much safer to your joint health and use those to provide you with much longer term pain relief.
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