| 1 | VSI® | Spine Solutions | Does stem cell therapy really work? | 9906 | 107 | 20 | 58.4 | neutral | 0:48 | So, I've seen a lot of trending videos on Tik Tok and Instagram where doctors are saying that regenerative medicine and stem cell therapy doesn't work. I can tell you that's simply not true. I have taken care of hundreds of patients and I've had them reclaim their lives, improve their mobility, improve their pain by the use of stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine. This is a very safe treatment that some people are claiming can cause cancer, but it's not true. We use the patient's own body to start healing themselves. If you think that stem cell therapy may be beneficial or we were wondering, send me a DM, call the office. Be happy to kind of discuss this with you. Please don't let misinformation stop you from getting the right answers. | ↗ |
| 2 | VSI® | Spine Solutions | Is Stem Cell Therapy FDA Approved? Dr. Bharara Explains. | 53534 | 846 | 48 | 57.4 | negative | 0:41 | There's a lot of information and misinformation out there regarding stem cell therapy. One of the questions that I get very frequently is, are the stem cell procedures that you perform FDA approved? Now, this is a confusing question, but simply put, the procedures that we perform are FDA exempt. The FDA does not regulate the procedures that we perform because we use the patient's own bone marrow and blood to perform the actual procedure. Now, if these procedures were performed by using somebody else's tissue like their blood or their bone marrow, then these would fall under the FDA regulation. | ↗ |
| 3 | VSI® | Spine Solutions | PRP Injections vs. Stem Cell Therapy I Understanding Regenerative Medi... | 2791 | 37 | 4 | 50.3 | negative | 4:33 | One of the common questions I get for my patients is when I'm treating a patient with a spine or an orthopedic condition, when do I use platelet-rich plasma or PRP or when do I use stem cell or bone marrow aspect and so when I talk to them, I really break it down by using an analogy. And so, which I don't know medicine is like growing a lawn or a garden. And when you're going a lawn or a garden, you need soil, you need water, you need fertilizer and you need seeds. These are things that you need. The body needs exact same things. And so, when we're treating an orthopedic condition and we're using regenerative medicine, this is the idea of giving the body what it needs to heal its joints, its ligaments, or its tendons. And so, we do regenerative medicine with two different types of treatments. We do something called platelet-rich plasma or PRP and then we also use stem cell or bone marrow aspect concentrate. That's what we do things that we use. And so, let's break it down. Let's start with PRP platelet-rich plasma. And so, we'll go back to the analogy. The analogy of growing the lawn. So, we said that in a lawn, what you need is you need seeds, you need fertilizer, you need soil, you need water. Well, let's say we have a lawn, but it's kind of scant. It's not growing very well, but you definitely see some grass. And so, in those situations, we may be able to get away with just putting some fertilizer down, just giving it a little bit of a boost to start growing. And so, that's the same thing as putting PRP or platelet-rich plasma in an area of injury. And so, it's the exact same. It's boosting the body's own regenerative abilities to treat an area of injury. And so, the question I always guess, where do you get that PRP from? Well, we get it from the patient's own blood. So, what we do is we just do a regular blood draw, just like you do in a lab corps. And then we process that. We get the fertilizer or the platelets out of it. And then we put it to the area of injury. And so, we boost the growth of the area of injury and just like fertilizing the lawn. But let's say the lawn is terrible. We just don't have any grass, and we need something that's a little more powerful. Well, then we may have to recede the area. So, seeds are the same thing as stem cells, same exact idea. And so, in those situations, when we're really, really bad off, sometimes what we need to do is we need to put stem cells in the area, or seeds in the area. And remember, these are not embryonic stem cells. I get the question all the time. Well, you know, what about the risks of this? Well, we're not doing embryonic stem cells. We're using something called adult mesenchymal stem cells. These are stem cells that can only convert into your own type of tissue. So, there's no risk of cancer or any other things growing. These are just going to grow in the tissue that you want it to grow. And so, where do we get those stem cells from? We actually get it from your own bone marrow. So, what we do is we do a small little bone marrow harvest from the hip bone. And once we get that bone marrow, we divide it, we set a few of it, we get the stem cells out of it, and then we put it back into the area of injury. And so, these options are extremely easy to do. It's a quick recovery. It's very natural. And it's not changing your body. You're just feeling the problem. You know, many times, this is a very simplistic approach to it, right? PRP or bone marrow, but a lot of times what we need to do is we need to do a combination of it. But sometimes we'll start off with an area that's really, really bad, and we'll do a stem cell procedure. And then we have you come back four weeks later, and then fertilize the area with PRP. Or we do a combination. Sometimes we do a PRP a couple of times beforehand, and then do stem cell. So, you really have to take an individualized approach to treating these problems. It's usually not just a one and done situation. We usually approach it and come up with a protocol for each and every patient. But these are, these are different regenerative medicine options that we have to treat orthopedic and spine conditions. So, basically, in conclusion, when we think about what we're trying to do to treat an area, and we're deciding PRP versus stem cell, think of PRP as the fertilizer and stem cells as the seeds. | ↗ |