Ms. Joyce had chronic left hip pain for years despite steroid injections. Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter treated her with bone marrow stem cells and PRP under light sedation. She resumed normal activities the next day and can now sit at her computer and care for her horses with almost no pain.
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About 10 years ("Want to say 10 years at least. Possibly at least a decade.")
Bone marrow aspirate concentrate (stem cell injection) to the left hip and PRP injections.
Light sedation described as "colonoscopy sleepy" (patient was not fully under).
She reported returning to normal activities the next day.
She said her life was much better and was "almost totally pain free," able to sit at her computer and care for her horses.
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This is somebody who is so special. This is Joyce. And I'm just getting in the shot because she's incredible. She's a beautiful, wonderful person who has been my patient for, oh, gosh, I.
Want to say 10 years at least. Possibly at least a decade. Possibly.
Yeah. And so she's come with me from traditional orthopedics to what we're doing right now, and we're going to talk a little bit about it because she's just done incredibly well. All right, Ms. Joyce, you take it away.
Most recently, you worked on my trochanter, which I don't know if everyone's going to tell what that is. My left hip.
Over the years, I've had pain and everyone I go to see says it's sciatica and all I ever got was injections, so nothing ever got any better. And I kind of thought it wasn't sciatica and the pain would get so bad I couldn't even sit. So most of my time was lying down in bed and not being able to work at my computer. So I came here because there are some innovative treatments here and I trust Dr. Schachter, known him for years. So I came here and got some relief.
Oh, that's fantastic.
I presume they were steroids, and they always thought I had an inflamed bursa sac, and that's what it felt like to me. But the last injection didn't work, so that was a couple of years ago.
Yeah.
So I just went on with it.
I just didn't want to put up with it anymore. The traditional medicine, I knew, was not going to find and solve this for me.
Yeah, yeah. And so we did bone marrow aspirate, concentrating on your hip. So we did stem cell in your hip. And we also did some PRP injections.
Right.
Would it work? Yeah, that's all put at work.
Always a question, right? Yeah, always a question. I think we put that one to bed here.
I mean, it was tolerable. I'm not going to say it was the prp. I'm not going to say it was pain free because Dr. Schachter had to go in and inject quite a few spots to deaden them. So, I mean, that wasn't pleasant, but I got through it. And after that, it wasn't bad at all. And then I chose anesthesia. Yeah.
Yeah. So we were able to make you sleepy while you did your procedure. And how was that?
It was nice. Kind of like colonoscopy sleepy. So you don't. You're not really under.
I didn't have any downtime. I just went back to my normal activities.
That's fantastic. When did you go back? Like, did you go back the same day? The next day?
Oh, the next day, I guess, yeah. Wow.
Okay.
Well, my life is a lot better, almost totally pain free. I have horses, so I. I go out, I feed them every day, twice a day. I take care of everything out there, which I was doing before, but in pain. So now, yeah, it's much better.
And so what can you specifically do that you weren't able to do in the past?
Well, I can sit at my computer now.
I don't know if that's a positive.
I like to be on my computer. Yeah, I don't know. I just like to do a lot of things on my computer. I wasn't able to do that before. I could maybe do it for maybe half an hour if I was lucky, and then just have to get up and. And leave it. So that's one big improvement in my life.
That's great.
I would tell them to come get a consultation. You know, when you get a little older, in your 70s, you don't really want an operation, which I certainly did not. So this was a great alternative for me. And the staff here is excellent. Everyone treats you with respect and consideration. So I appreciate that a lot.
Thank you.
Well, I'm always coming here to see what's new and innovative, and I have used some of their other procedures. I always called it the wrong thing, but it's insculpt. Right? I've used insculpt and I've seen amazing results with that cord. A floor I haven't tried. The. I just call it the brain thing. The.
The exomind.
Exomind, yeah. But that will be next for me.
Fantastic. Ms. Joyce, thank you so much. You're incredible. I love taking care of you. And I want to give you a hug because you're just one of my favorites.
You're sweet.
And you dressed up so beautifully today. All right.
