Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

This Is the Story of My Very First Patient

23 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A short first-person clinical anecdote by Joy Kong, MD describing her first patient: a 69-year-old man with severe bilateral knee osteoarthritis (described as bone-on-bone) who declined bilateral knee replacement. The clinician provided injections to both knees and an IV infusion; the patient reported improved sleep (sleeping through the night for the first time in decades) and relief of a chronic shoulder/rotator cuff-related sleep disturbance. The narrator emphasizes systemic (IV) cells/therapy reaching inflamed areas and notes repeated similar results.

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My very first patient. He was 69 years old. He came to me because he was facing bilateral knee replacement because two separate orthopedic surgeons said, your knees are in such bad shape, you have osteoarthritis. They're bone on bone, so you absolutely need bilateral knee replacement. And he said, I don't want to do that. I just don't want to go through that. So I give him injections in both knees, and.
Then I give him the IV infusion.
But what's interesting.
Was the next day.
He said, hey.
I slept through the night, and I haven't slept through the.
Night for decades because I had a.
Car accident and I injured my rotator.
Cuff and it never fully healed.
And he said, I slept through the night. And then he.
Kept sleeping.
Through the night.
So that no longer is a problem. Basically, the.
Cells I gave him through.
IV found its way because that area probably is screaming inflammation. So IV route, I think, is very powerful, and I've seen it happen again and again.