Regenexx Procedures
Regenexx Advanced Regenerative Orthopedic Procedures
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The Regenexx-Family of Advanced Regenerative Medicine Procedures offer breakthrough, non-surgical treatment options for people suffering from moderate to severe joint, tendon, ligament, or bone pain due to injury and other conditions. The Centeno-Schultz clinic is the original stem cell based musculoskeletal practice in the U.S., with more stem cell orthopedics experience than any other clinic. We are also the physician leaders in stem cell therapy for orthopedic injuries in terms of research presentations, publications, and academic achievements.
Regenexx™ procedures offer a viable alternative to many who are facing surgery due to injury or are suffering from chronic pain. Our patients experience little to no down time from our procedures and avoid the painful and lengthy rehab period that usually follows surgery to restore joint strength and mobility.
Regenexx Stem Cell & Platelet Procedures
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At the Centeno-Schultz clinic, we believe that when all you have is a hammer, you tend to look for a nail. Meaning that many clinics offering stem cell therapy only offer one type because it’s what’s produced by the bedside centrifuge they happen to have or the “kit” bought by the clinic. Since we have a state of the art cell biology facility, we develop medical procedures that are licensed world-wide. Rather then just a hammer, we have a toolbox full of regenerative tools to help our patients. We break these down into advanced stem cell and platelet procedures. Each has a name to help our patients understand the differences between the procedures.
Regenexx Stem Cell Procedures
Regenexx-SD (Same Day)-A bone marrow based stem cell procedure. Spinning down bone marrow in a bedside machine produces a set amount of stem cells to be injected. Regenexx-SD can concentrate those cells many times over bedside centrifuges. In addition, adding super-platelet mix helps those cells multiply faster which grows more mesenchymal stem cells (based on in-vitro data). Unleash the power of your own stem cells! Learn more…
Regenexx-AD (Adipose Derived)- The problem with using stem cells derived from fat (for orthopedic procedures) is that they under perform bone marrow stem cells. Having said that, there are more mesenchymal stem cells in fat than in bone marrow. If stem cells from fat aren’t as good, but there’s allot of them, why not have the best of both worlds? Regenexx-AD was created to solve these problems. Here we take our traditional Regenexx-SD procedure with super-platelet mix and add a structural “fat graft” that’s filled with adipose stem cells. This graft can be used to solve structural problems within the joint. Regenexx-AD is having your cake and eating it too! Learn more…
Regenexx-SCP-(Stem Cell Plasma)-How do you get stem cells from a common IV blood draw? Our SCP contains concentrated platelets like PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma), but we’ve also gone the extra step to document that our version contains blood circulating stem cells of a type that have been shown to be capable of tissue repair. Learn more…
Regenexx-C-(Cultured)- In our non-U.S. Regenexx licensed sites (China and Argentina with Greece coming on line soon), we offer patients the ability to culture mesenchymal stem cells. At this time this is not offered at our clinic in Colorado.
Regenexx Platelet Procedures
Regenexx PL-(Platelet Lysate)-Platelets slowly release their growth factors in a timed release fashion to help healing. However, there are times when the physician wants all of the growth factors contained in platelets immediately available to the area to prompt healing. In addition, there are areas of the body where using Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) may cause too much inflammation. As a result, our physicians create Regenexx-PL by cracking open the platelets to allow all of the growth factors to be immediately available to your body.
Regenexx-PRP-(Platelet Rich Plasma)-PRP is made from your concentrated blood platelets to help healing. While many clinics use PRP these days, did you know that each different bedside machine or process produces a different type of PRP? Did you know that no machines can produce a consistent dosing of platelets (meaning the exact same number of platelets for each injection)? When we decided to offer PRP, our physicians wanted control over what was in our PRP. We wanted to be able to custom order if the PRP should contain white blood cells or not (which can help in certain instances) and the exact concentration of platelets. As a result, Regenexx-PRP was born.
Regenexx-PRP-Super-(Supernatant)-We have always used PRP “supernatants” in our practice. Platelets release certain growth factors over the first week of healing. Every clinic in the country using PRP randomly adds an activating agent to form a gel which will stay in the area implanted and act like a blood clot. The amounts of the activating agents vary by practitioner. What’s less known is that these activating agents cause different amounts of specific growth factors to be released at different times. With Regenexx-PRP-Super we’ve figured out how much of which activating agents cause certain growth factors to be released more than others. Why is this important? Because each growth factor is better at a specific repair job. For example, VEGF is better at creating new blood vessels, TGF-beta is better at cartilage repair, and FGF is better at tendon and ligament repair. In this way, your doctor can “activate” your PRP to accomplish different types of repair, rather than just randomly adding a “little of this or that” to prompt the PRP to form a gel.
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