| 1 | WKYC Channel 3 | Regenerative medicine: Using your own body to heal itself | 820 | 7 | 1 | 54.6 | positive | 1:44 | Regenitive medicine is a very broad field that's been advancing at warp speed. In some aspects, it actually uses technology to help our bodies heal itself. You've likely heard of stem cell therapy. What if it could actually cure your achy joints? Wouldn't that be nice? Seeing your health correspondent Monica Robbins takes us inside the science that believe it or not, is already inside our bodies. These are pretty incredible and the concept of using ourselves to heal ourselves is not new, but it's certainly advancing. Just as technology continues to advance what we do in the lab and biologically continues to advance as well, our ability to harvest and grow your own stem cells and then help to talk to those stem cells to have them grow cartilage or decrease inflammation or help a ligament heal better is what we're doing right now. But maybe next on the horizon is using stem cells to cure arthritis in your joints. We're currently in process with our FDA approved clinical trial to grow your stem cells for early arthritis or cartilage injuries. We've completed our phase one trial with remarkable results and we're looking forward to expanding that trial and hopefully in the near future it's available to all of our patients. And the future of regenerative medicine is now. Working with our implants and our different ways we help a graft or a ligament heal into the body continues to harness the body's potential to heal. And I think that's the most important part about regenerative medicine is we've realized there's nothing better than the human body and how the human body works. And so our goal now is to harness that to really improve an athlete's outcome. Monica Robbins, three news. | ↗ |