Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter (speaker) introduces the problem of risks associated with major orthopedic surgery and describes his search for safer, non-operative treatments for joint pain. He introduces orthobiologics as a method that harnesses the body’s healing potential by injecting biologic material directly into injured joints to promote focused repair.
What if we could really make an impact in patients symptoms without this major surgery? Because surgery, although it's massively successful in orthopedics, and I like to think that I'm very good at orthopedic surgery, it's not without its risks. And so when we do a surgery, we're always thinking in the back of our heads, what's the next step if X happens? So I've really searched for a long time how to find a safer method of treatment of joint pain without the risk. And so when I left my first practice, I really wanted to focus on safe and non operative measures for joint pain. And that's where we came to orthobiologics. Orthobiologics is a fascinating science. And basically what we do is we take your body's potential to heal, and we use it in a focused and directed space, using an injection to inject directly into the place that we need that healing.
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