Dr. Joy Kong explains that newly formed tissue after a stem cell injection is fragile like a fresh scab. Avoid high-impact activities for four to six weeks while it matures, or you risk damaging the tissue and restarting the healing process.
So during the process, when the new tissue is getting formed, you don't want to be pounding onto the joint because think about the new tissue, they're very fragile, just like you're forming a new scab, right, on your skin and you can just knock on the, you know, corner of something and then you knock it off because it's not fully, you know, at its mature stage. So it can be very fragile. So you want to be gentle with it. You don't want to do high-impact activity, you know, for that joint. And then you can just, you know, destroy the new tissue that was just being formed. So I would say for something like the knee, you want to do at least 4 to 6 weeks of being very gentle when the tissue is being formed. And I, you know, I've seen this happen to people a lot. You know, they do so much better, all of a sudden they're feeling better, they don't have much pain, and they feel kind of bionic. And within a couple weeks, and they start to do really high-intensity things. And then they hurt themselves. So then we're, we're going back to having to build that again. So that's something that, you know, just be careful. Think about the new tissue, you know, being very fragile, and so be very gentle with it. But I would say in 4 to 6 weeks, the person should more or less go back to normal activities.
