| 1 | Kevin Logan, MD | Day in the Life of a Regenerative Medicine Doctor | 2392 | 7 | 1 | 56.4 | positive | 5:34 | Good morning. It's bright and early. We're getting ready to get started. We have eight procedures today. We're going to do regenerative medicine. Over the last 30 years, I've been practicing functional medicine, but my practice has changed and evolved over the last seven to eight years with the addition of regenerative therapies. Once a week, I have days like today where I focus just on regenerative therapy and I've honed my skills by attending multiple conferences and studying with some of the greatest minds to learn new techniques for injections, for treating nerves, and all this off-tissue that surround a joint to allow that person to heal and get back to full recovery and activity. Today is a procedure day. We'll be seeing eight patients today. We'll be treating a variety of conditions from chronic rotator cuff injury, knee injuries, and osteoarthritis, and a variety of other musculoskeletal conditions. It's a busy day today, so I better get going. I've got a couple minutes to get organized and we'll see you in there. This is a very satisfying part of my work because I see people get back to their game whether it's golf, tennis, or even just walking their dog. This process begins by extracting one's blood and then spinning it in a special centrifuge to release the growth factors from these cells called platelets, which actually facilitate the healing of the body. They also facilitate the mobilization of stem cells from surrounding tissues to help with the regenerative capacity of the body. It's powerful because we're using all their own healing potential that comes right out of their veins and then we process this very quickly, give it back to the body. The body knows exactly what to do, which is repair and heal and regenerate, which is what our bodies were intended to do to begin with. This is just another very effective tool to deliver precise growth factors and nutrients that are going to help that tissue recover. This is the ligament here. You have a superficial structure and then you have a deeper structure. It actually attaches to the medial meniscus. That's your medial meniscus right there. It's not completely attached right there, and that's going to be one of our targets. They get back on their game, they win matches and they come back satisfied and that makes my day. I just got done with that procedure. It went really well and I expect to see him back in about four to six weeks and we're going to start working on his shoulder next. So now I'm going to go get some lunch. Lunch today, I like to eat local, so this is a sirloin tippros from Shocked Farm, a local sourdough. We've got raw grass-fed butter, which is rich in vitamin A. You see the yellow color and then fresher regular out of the garden. Part of my prescription for my patients is lifestyle medicine. This includes movement, nutrition and high quality sleep. Movement after a meal is a very easy way to actually lower your blood sugar. The research shows you can lower your blood sugar by 10 to 20 percent with just a short 15-minute walk after you eat. Today I had extra time, so I actually got in around a Pilates to lower my blood sugar levels and get my blood circulating, so I'll have plenty of energy for the rest of the afternoon. On to the afternoon appointments. My next patient is a person who is a D1 wrestler and he's had some shoulder injuries. This is his third treatment. He's getting good results. He's getting back on the golf course and swinging well and he's getting his strength back, so super excited to see how he's doing today. That just helps to help that joint heal. I mean you've made great progress. This is number three. So this is a fairly straightforward procedure. With a shoulder, as with all joints, I do a very comprehensive treatment of the joint. So that includes muscle and tendon connections to the bone, ligaments which connect bone to bone, as well as the nerves that innervate the structure, whether it's shoulder or knee or whatever it is. We always want to make sure we're treating those nerves because those nerves are feeding the joints which is increasing blood flow and it's going to facilitate healing as well as reduction of pain. Normally Monday through Friday, I'm seeing patients and I'm applying the functional medicine skills and internal medicine skills that I've acquired over the last 30 years to do a deep dive into what is causing their particular illness and helping them recover from that. This is actually a very different day because we see people recover and get back to their daily activities much quicker than they would if they had surgery or steroid injections. Knees and shoulders are the most common joints that are treated because those are what people present with. Hips are also another common finding and then we can treat a variety of other joints including elbows, ankles, etc. Hi, thanks for watching the video today. When I have time, I love to make these videos because I love to educate about health and wellness. If you enjoyed this video, please make sure and subscribe and maybe check out this next video. YouTube thinks you're going to like this one. If you have any questions you'd like me or my team to answer, please leave them in the comment section below. See you in the next one. | ↗ |