Common misconceptions about stem cell therapy.

Common misconceptions about stem cell therapy.

by | Jun 19, 2019 | regenerative medicine

For people who are new to the world of regenerative cell therapy, there are many misconceptions that you must be aware of in order to get a true understanding on how this form of health procedure can help you. Here at Miami Stem Cell, our professionals are here to make sure that you have all the information you need when it comes to stem cell therapy. We are conveniently located in Miami, FL. 

 

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Stem cell therapy can serve as an alternative treatment for many patients with joint pain, ligament and tendon damage, and back injuries. As new information and findings rapidly emerge, both new and old stem cell myths persist. Ongoing stem cell research and clinical experience in regenerative medicine are beginning to clarify many of these misconceptions.

 

Top Misconceptions of Regenerative Cell Therapy

  • Stem Cell Therapy Is Not Legal
  • Stem Cells for Treatments Are Harvested from Embryos
  • Stem Cells Need to Be Banked at Birth to Allow for Later Treatments
  • Bone Marrow Is the Best Source of Stem Cells
  • Stem Cell Therapy Is Unsafe
  • Stem Cell Therapy Is Unproven
  • Stem Cells Are the Ultimate Cure for Everything
  • Most Religions Oppose Stem Cell Research
  • Americans Need to Travel Abroad for Stem Cell Treatments
  • Stem Cell Therapy Is As Difficult A Recovery for Patients As Invasive Surgery

Adult autologous stem cell therapies hold great promise for the future of medicine because of their potential to minimize pain, improve cartilage health, improve lumbar discs or facet joints, as well as help heal soft tissue damage. The ability to utilize stem cells from one’s own body to safely and naturally treat many different patient ailments is beginning to revolutionize healthcare. With more public support and cooperative regulatory policies, adult stem cells have the potential to change the healthcare landscape forever.

 

We Are The Best When It Comes To Stem Cell Therapy

Miami Stem Cell’s mission is to control orthopedic related pain and suffering by using the latest and most innovative Regenerative Medicine therapy procedures available today. As one of the leading stem cell institutes in the United States, we pride ourselves in providing top-notch service in the field of Regenerative Medicine, a branch of medicine that is now being considered as one of the most promising fields in modern medicine. At Miami Stem Cell, the safety of our patients is always our top priority, and we strictly adhere to all FDA mandates and regulations, in order to deliver the best results, in the safest form and for the benefit of all our patients. 

 

Our ultimate goal is to successfully bring Regenerative Medicine treatment therapies to a sector of the population that suffers from painful orthopedic conditions always using the most professional, safe, friendly, and honest type of approach. In addition, we will not treat any medical conditions that we have no strong scientific evidence that our Regenerative Medicine treatments would be effective at treating, like neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson’s, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s or any pulmonary diseases or would ever place any of our patients at the risk of any adverse effects, since patient safety is always of utmost importance to us.

 

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Relieve your pain today with regenerative cell therapy. Miami Stem Cell has the treatment you have been long awaiting. Our mission is to control orthopedic related pain and suffering by using the latest and most innovative regenerative medicine therapy procedures available today. If you have any pain regarding your knee or back, contact us today and see how we can make that pain go away. Make an appointment and begin the healing immediately with a stem cell therapy procedure.

The different types of regenerative medicine.

The different types of regenerative medicine.

by | Jun 13, 2019 | regenerative medicine

When you hear the term “regenerative medicine” what term comes to mind? If you are thinking about limbs completely growing back after being removed, you are probably watching too many science fiction movies. However, that idea is not totally far fetched. At Miami Stem Cell, we are here to explain the different types of stem cells and regenerative medicine. It is our goal to make sure you get a great understanding of the concept.

 

What Is Regenerative Medicine?

One of the most promising and rapidly developing areas in the treatment of pain is regenerative medicine, in which treatments cause the body to heal or rebuild itself. The body can naturally heal many types of injuries, but newer techniques, such as stem cell therapy, enhance the body’s ability to heal. These techniques are still new and are still being evaluated in clinical research, but we believe these types of regenerative medicine holds great promise. All of us at PainDoctor.com are excited to be on the cutting-edge in researching and evaluating these medical treatments. Many of our PainDoctor.com-certified doctors also offer many of these types of treatments.

 

The Different Types of Stem Cells

The regenerative medicine method that will work best for a patient depends on their condition and other circumstances. Regenerative medicine can vary depending on how it’s administered and how those regenerative cells are produced. Let’s take a look at some of the most common types of regenerative medicine, including:

  • Stem cell therapy
  • Amniotic membrane derived stem cells
  • Platelet-rich plasma therapy (or PRP injections)
  • Tissue engineering

All stem cells can self-renew and develop into more specialized cells. Beyond these two critical abilities, though, stem cells vary widely in what they can and cannot do and in the circumstances under which they can and cannot do certain things. This is one of the reasons researchers use all types of stem cells in their investigations.

 

Since stem cells have the ability to turn into various other types of cells, scientists believe that they can be useful for treating and understanding diseases. Stem cells can be used to:

  • grow new cells in a laboratory to replace damaged organs or tissues
  • correct parts of organs that don’t work properly
  • research causes of genetic defects in cells
  • research how diseases occur or why certain cells develop into cancer cells
  • test new drugs for safety and effectiveness

 

Several types of stem cells can be used for different purposes. Here is a list of common stem cells:

  • Embryonic Stem Cells
  • Non-Embryonic Stem Cells
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
  • Cord Blood Stem Cells and Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells

 

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There are many uses of the different types of stem cells. With the use of regenerative medicine, people everywhere can benefit. Relieve your chronic pain today with a stem cell surgery procedure and iv vitamin therapy. Located in Miami, Stem Cell Miami has the treatment you have been long awaiting. Our mission is to control orthopedic related pain and suffering by using the latest and most innovative regenerative medicine therapy procedures available today. If you have any pain regarding your knee or back, contact us today and see how we can make that pain go away. Make an appointment, and begin the healing immediately.

There Is Hope for ACL Tears! Try Stem Cell Treatment

There Is Hope for ACL Tears! Try Stem Cell Treatment

by | Mar 26, 2019 | regenerative medicine

A torn ACL is every athlete’s worst nightmare. While you may have been told that your only option to fix your torn ACL is highly invasive surgery, there are actually other options available to you when it comes to repairing your ACL injury. Your body is, in fact, conditioned to repair itself. A non-surgical alternative that uses your own cells to repair the damage to your ACL is interventional orthopedics, which utilizes precise image-guided injections of your own body’s healing agents to assist in repairing tissue. Read on to learn more about stem cell ACL repair and what options could be available to you. If you are interested in stem cell knee injections, contact Stem Cell Miami in Miami today!

 

ACL injuries and Stem Cell Reparations

 

If your anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is injured, it can result in substantial difficulty with basic mobility and function. This type of injury is especially common among athletes, and even more so with professional ones. Injuries such as torn ACLs and surgeries to repair them occur in practically every sport, from NBA point guard Derrick Rose to U.S. soccer player Alex Morgan. At the point of ACL tear, unlike regular strains or sprains to the ACL which generally heal with rest, the favored treatment option is ACL surgery involving applying a tissue graft taken from elsewhere in the body or a cadaver. Unfortunately, this type of graft attaches at an angle which is steeper than than the original tendon, resulting in more compression on the cartilage in the knee and an increased chance of osteoarthritis while the position sense and strength in the repaired knee never goes back to normal. Moreover, patients who receive this type of surgery are substantially more likely to experience further knee injuries. We at Stem Cell Miami provide stem cell knee injections that are able to replace up to 70% of ACL-repair surgeries. This injection-based outpatient procedure utilizes precise image guidance to inject custom concentrations of your body’s natural healing agents into the precise areas of damage in order to tighten and stabilize your knee joint for improved mobility and function.

 

We Offer Stem Cell ACL Repair

 

The procedure we offer happens throughout the course of a week, although every individual case can vary. This includes the pre-injection of a special hypertonic dextrose solution to create a mild inflammatory environment to conduct healing on the first day of your procedure, and then a stem-cell procedure where bone marrow from the lilac crest of your hip bones (significantly less invasive than a bone marrow biopsy) on the second day, which takes about 30 to 60 minutes. Then, there is a a blood drawn and post-injection of platelet-rich plasma concentrations, which takes about 20 to 30 minutes. The recovery process is generally fairly quick when given the proper rest and recuperation along with physical therapy. Find out more with a consultation by Stem Cell Miami!

 

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Stem Cell ACL Repair is a less invasive option compared to traditional surgery. Call Stem Cell Miami today for consultations regarding your stem cell knee injections today.

New hope for stem cell approach to treating diabetes – Washington University Study

by | Jan 22, 2019 | Diabetes, IV Therapy, regenerative medicine, stem cell therapy

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have tweaked the recipe for coaxing human stem cells into insulin-secreting beta cells and shown that the resulting cells are more responsive to fluctuating glucose levels in the blood. Here, the new beta cells appear red as they secrete insulin in response to glucose.
Credit: Millman lab, Washington Universityientists working to develop more effective treatments for diabetes are turning to stem cells. Such cells can be transformed into cells that produce insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar.

But there’s a major challenge: the amount of insulin produced by theses cells is difficult to control.

Now, by tweaking the recipe for coaxing human stem cells into insulin-secreting beta cells, a team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that the resulting cells are more responsive to fluctuating glucose levels in the blood.

 

When they transplanted the beta cells into mice that could not make insulin, the new cells began secreting insulin within a few days, and they continued to control blood sugar in the animals for months.

The new study is published Jan. 17 in the journal Stem Cell Reports.

“We’ve been able to overcome a major weakness in the way these cells previously had been developed. The new insulin-producing cells react more quickly and appropriately when they encounter glucose,” said principal investigator Jeffrey R. Millman, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine and of biomedical engineering. “The cells behave much more like beta cells in people who don’t have diabetes.”

The researchers now believe it may be time to evaluate whether the same stem-cell approach could produce insulin and effectively control blood sugar in people.

Millman was a part of a research team at Harvard that, in 2014, converted skin cells into stem cells and, in 2016, did the same thing with skin cells from a patient with diabetes. Each time, the stem cells were then treated with various growth factors to coax them into insulin-secreting beta cells. The beta cells, however, didn’t work as well as the researchers had hoped.

“Previously, the beta cells we manufactured could secrete insulin in response to glucose, but they were more like fire hydrants, either making a lot of insulin or none at all,” he said. “The new cells are more sensitive and secrete insulin that better corresponds to the glucose levels.”

For this study, Millman’s laboratory still grew beta cells from human stem cells, but they made numerous changes to the “recipe” for producing insulin-producing beta cells, treating the cells with different factors at different times as they grew and developed to help the cells mature and function more effectively.

After that process was complete, the researchers transplanted the beta cells into diabetic mice with suppressed immune systems so that they wouldn’t reject the human cells. Those transplanted cells produced insulin at levels that effectively controlled blood sugar in the mice, functionally curing their diabetes for several months, which, for most of the mice in the study, was about the length of their lives.

As laboratory researcher rather than a clinician, Millman said he can’t predict exactly when such cells may be ready for human trials but believes there are at least two ways that stem cell-derived beta cells could be tested in human patients.

“The first would be to encapsulate the cells in something like a gel — with pores small enough to prevent immune cells from getting in but large enough to allow insulin to get out,” he said. “Another idea would be to use gene-editing tools to alter the genes of beta cells in ways that would allow them to ‘hide’ from the immune system after implantation.”

Millman said that if stem cell-derived beta cells are proven safe and effective for people with diabetes, his method of manufacturing the cells quickly could be ramped up to an industrial scale. In his laboratory alone, his team is able to grow and develop more than a billion beta cells in just a few weeks.

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Journal Reference:

  1. Leonardo Velazco-Cruz, Jiwon Song, Kristina G. Maxwell, Madeleine M. Goedegebuure, Punn Augsornworawat, Nathaniel J. Hogrebe, Jeffrey R. Millman. Acquisition of Dynamic Function in Human Stem Cell-Derived β Cells. Stem Cell Reports, 2019; DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.12.012