Overview
We permanently re-grow
- ligaments - bone to bone connectors
- tendons - muscle to bone connectors
- cartilage - cushioning, gliding surfaces within joints.
Ligaments are straps that limit bone movement within safe, pain-free boundaries. Worn, loose ligaments are themselves painful, and they cause their own referred pain. Additionally, their laxity eventually hurts surrounding structures, causing disc herniation, nerve compression, damage to tendons, damage to cartilage, and osteoarthritis.
Tendon breakdown may be felt as local pain, referred pain, or as pain and dysfunction in the muscle that the tendon connects to bone.
Cartilage and fibrocartilage (meniscus, labrum) are damaged with injury or worn down in loose ligamented, dysfunctional joints. As cartilage gets thinner, movement irritates surrounding bone edges and eventually leads to bone spurs and other degenerative bone changes.
Breakdown of these spine and joint tissues is a key source of pain.
Procedures that re-grow these tissues can eliminate chronic pain permanently.
We intervene with minimally invasive procedures that do not involve open surgery. We precisely inject natural substances that attract your body's own growth factors and stem cells. This is done in some series of monthly procedures, with each procedure re-growing more and more of the damaged tissue, filling in broken fibers, gradually returning integrity and safe, pain-free function to the joint or spinal region being reconstructed. It is an incremental, natural process that is, literally, gardening or farming of collagen, the substance that ligaments, tendons and cartilage are made of.
However, no medical procedure can solve all medical problems. Not every patient is a candidate. Your eligibility for our methods can be preliminarily assessed in a scheduled phone conference. If you are a candidate, then a lengthy, thorough initial evaluation and examination in our office will detail how we may be able to help.
