A clinician (Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter) describes orthobiologic treatment options for osteoarthritis, focusing on bone marrow aspirate (autologous 'stem cell') injections. He explains harvesting bone marrow from the pelvis, concentrating it via centrifuge, and injecting it under ultrasound guidance, and states the procedure is "very safe and very effective" for treating osteoarthritis pain.
It's a very safe and very effective way to treat the pain of osteoarthritis. 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 aspirin injection, also called stem cell. That's where we use your own 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 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. Sa.
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