Advantages Of Spinal Stem Cell Therapy For Osteoarthritis
Conventional treatments for osteoarthritis include physical therapy (reduced exercises, crutches usage, etc.) and medications, which provide temporary pain relief and can’t repair damaged cartilage tissue. Joint replacement surgery is the only possible treatment for arthritis to deal with a damaged joint. But this method is risky and traumatic and may be accompanied by serious complications. Compared with these conventional therapeutical methods, stem cell therapy has incomparable advantages.
Advantages Of Osteoarthritis Stem Cell Treatment
Stem cell therapy
Conventional treatment
Curative Treatment or diseases management
Stem cell therapy is a new treatment for osteoarthritis that aims to repair or regenerate cartilage tissue and help joints to return to a healthy status. If stem cell therapy is received at an early stage, the damage to the joint can be reversed and patients can eliminate drug dependence.
Including physical and medication therapies, which can relieve arthritic pain but cannot cure osteoarthritis completely. Medication dosage may increase over time and patients are prone to drug resistance. None of those methods can reverse or slow down the joint damage caused by osteoarthritis.
Dosage
The orthopedic stem cell therapy is carried out by osteo and chondroblasts (stem cells of cartilage and bone tissue). After stem cells repair the cartilage tissue, the patients can reduce drug dosage. If the treatment is received at an early stage, the drug dependence can be eliminated/reversed. A stem cell expert will customize a specific plan based on your current disease status and other comorbidities to decide on the number, source of stem cells for arthritic hips, as well as the duration of stem cell therapy.
Patients who are taking the drug will find the dose of the drug increase slowly and gradually, the treatment effect became weaker and limited, and the patients gradually develop resistance and require more powerful anti-inflammatory or other drugs.
Side-effects
There are no side effects since the stem cells come from the body itself, the immunogenicity is extremely low, and with a very strict quality control procedure, there are no side effects.
Anti-inflammatory drugs may have some side effects on the digestion and cardiovascular systems, such as nausea, stomach pain, abdominal discomfort, and allergies.
Convenience
Stem cell therapy is performed by stem cell experts and requires specialized laboratories to process stem cells. Corresponding medical equipment is also needed to extract and inject stem cells. Once the treatment is complete, there is no need for frequent or repeated treatment, patients can return to a high quality of life.
It’s relatively easy to routinely take medications, but the patient needs to take them repeatedly every day, which is prone to the development of medication drug dependence.
Longevity
If treated in the early stage, the drug dependence can be eliminated in long run and return to a healthy life with no longer joint pain and the effect is long-lasting. If treatment was conducted at a later stage, stem cell therapy can still reduce drug dependence, and in rare cases, you might need several treatment regimens.
The effect of drug treatment is short-term, and it is necessary to take or apply anti-inflammatory drugs every day as prescribed. The effectiveness of the medication is usually a few hours or a day, and the patients need that medication for life.
End-stage
Stem cells are the fundamental part of our body, the main function of stem cells is to regenerate and repair damaged cells, and produce new body cells thus repairing and regenerating cartilage tissue and delaying the necessity to conduct surgery.
Joint replacement surgery is the only treatment option for end-stage patients, but the high risk, surgical trauma, limited efficacy, and serious complications are important concerning factors.
How Can Stem Cell Therapy For Osteoarthritis Work
Stem cells can be used to treat osteoarthritis by intravenous infusion or locally targeted transplantation. Stem cells can help treat osteoarthritis by playing the following roles:
Immune regulatory effect: Stem cells secrete anti-inflammatory factors thus inhibiting the activity of macrophages in the joint cavity and reducing the release of inflammatory factors thus inhibiting joint inflammation.
Differentiation potential: Mesenchymal stem cells can differentiate into chondrocytes to repair damaged cartilage tissue.
Promotion of cartilage growth: Stem cells promote the proliferation of cartilage cells by secreting growth factors and inhibit inflammation, apoptosis, or fibrosis in cartilage cells to prevent the destruction of cartilage tissue and reduce cartilage damage.
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