What Are Stem Cells Solutions?

Researchers over the last decade have made remarkable strides in increasing the effectiveness of stem cell therapy says Dr David Spinner, a physician at Mount Sinai’s Department of Rehabilitative Medicine. In the last decade, there has been a tremendous amount of research that giving us ways of treating issues that otherwise were not healing. 

Stem cell therapy is a process that involves harvesting the most basic cells from bone, blood, or tissue to help regenerate previously untreatable conditions. It is most commonly used in cancer treatment, when cells or bone marrow has been damaged or destroyed by the disease, but it is also used at Mount Sinai’s Department of Rehabilitative Medicine as a treatment for degenerative conditions such as tendonitis or partial ligament tears.

Blood cells begin their journey in bone marrow, and, once blood cells have matured move into the peripheral blood system. If the bone marrow (the soft spongey tissue inside our bones) is damaged or destroyed by a degenerative condition or cancer, then the marrow cannot make normal blood cells. Stem Cell therapies will extract red and white blood cells alongside platelets at an early stage of their maturity in other parts of the body where they are properly nourished and transplant them into the damaged area.

We already mentioned that stem cell therapy is an effective treatment for people with degrative joint diseases, but it is especially good at treating damage to areas with poor surface of the cartilage. We can also use the therapy on rotator cuff disease or rotator cuff tears to amend damage before impossible to treat. A great method we adopt is concentrating stem cells after we have harvested them before putting them back into an area that is injured.

Stem cell is also a fantastic treatment for spine damage and knee damage caused by arthritis. If the spine or knee is inflamed around one or more joints the area will become increasingly painful and will gradually worsen if not attended to. This issue can be down to your genetics or lifestyle such as poor posture, bad lifting technique, or not enough moving. The stem cell therapy we outlined above is a promising treatment for arthritis all over the body, and can help you reclaim your life.

If you would like to learn more, or would like to visit a consultant or physical therapist for referrals, call us on (212) 241-6321).

Get Back in The Game with Platelet Rich Plasma

You’ve had a great season, everybody said so – but your body is now tired, underperforming, developing tendinitis, you have a fracture in your hip, and you slowly feel tennis elbow pains emerging. That might be a bit extreme and sensationalist; to be honest, you would be quite unlucky if all those problems arose after one season – but it is likely that if you are involved in physical activity, eventually, you will experience a symptom or tear that could require a long recovery period. Luckily, we have a game-changing therapy that will get you back onto the track quicker than “On your marks. Set. GO.”

Unlock Your Super Healing Abilities

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP) is a blood plasma that contains concentrated amounts of platelets and growth factors that encourage and trigger tissue repair. That means we can speed your recovery along. The therapy is a progressive non-surgical treatment plan that uses the plasma harvested from your own blood to help repair, regenerate and rejuvenate. That’s right, you’ll be just like the Lizard (for all the Marvel Universe fans reading).

According to the current literature, the following injuries that respond best to this procedure are the following:

·       Achilles tendinitis

·       Medial collateral ligament (MCL) tears

·       Knee osteoarthritis

·       Injuries to ligaments and muscles

·       Chronic lower back pain

·       Spinal stenosis

·       Tennis elbow

·       Acute and chronic tendon problems

·       Joint fractures

·       Plantar fasciitis

·       Neck pain

·       Rotator cuff tears

·       Morton’s neuroma

But, What Exactly is This Procedure?

Like red and white blood cells, platelets and plasma are a normal component of blood. Plasma refers to the liquid component of blood, the medium that dilutes these cells. It also helps to move other material travelling in your blood system around the body. The injection consists of less-than-usual plasma and a more-than-usual number of platelets.

Platelets alone do not have any healing properties, that is to say, there is nothing “magical” in them. However, the secrete substances called growth factors and other proteins that regulate cell division, stimulate tissue regeneration, and promote healing. Alongside this, they aid the blood in clotting open wounds. That is why, a person with defective platelets or two few platelets will bleed excessively from a cut.

This therapy that avoids surgery for many painful and difficult to treat conditions uses your own cells to help your body heal, rejuvenate your joints, and regenerate after sustaining damage. Numerous professional athletes including Tiger Woods, NBA champions, and NFL stars have all used this procedure to help them get back into the game.

If you would like to learn more, or would like to visit a consultant or physical therapist for referrals, call us on (212) 241-6321) to see if we can help you this sporting season.

Dealing with Pain: Osteopathic Manipulation Treatments

Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is hands on care, in which your physician will treat, diagnose, or prevent illness using manual palpitations. The underlying principle holds that the patient’s history of illness and physical trauma is written into the body’s structure. A Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) will gently move muscles and joints using techniques including stretching, especially with gentle pressure and resistance. 

Your physician will have been specially trained in the musculoskeletal system, which is comprised of an intricate system of muscles, nerves, and bones. Their nuanced and intricate understanding of the interconnections between all facets of the body means that a DO can locate a “blueprint” of an illness through the way the musculoskeletal system is connected. 

How Does it Work?

The aim of OMT is to relieve joint restriction by focusing on misalignment, this is done by with a focus on manually treating structural and tissue abnormalities, restoring muscle strength by promoting tissue balance, and finally – and potentially most importantly, by promoting the overall movement of blood flow throughout the body.

Just as there are many types of chronic pains, there are a multitude of treatment options from medication to the hands-on techniques detailed above. 

Our physicians’ practice in any school of medicine, but our DOs have taken the time to receive an additional 300-500 hours in the study of the body’s muscular skeletal system. Their highly developed sense of touch allows them to understand physical traumas that are written into the body’s structure by palpitating the patients living anatomy.

Who Can it Help?

As well as helping people with localized musculoskeletal damage, OMT has been clinically proven to help these other common illnesses.

·       Asthma

·       Sinus Disorders

·       Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

·       Migraines

·       Menstrual Pains

How Do I Get Referred?

Please contact us at The Mount Sinai Department of Rehabilitative Medicine and make an appointment today or to speak to one of our DO physicians.

If you have or would like to be recommended a OST and would like to do it with us at Mount Sinai, or if you are having one with us soon and would like more information, please contact us on (212) 241-6321) to see if our physicians can further help.