Stem Cell Therapy for Orthopedic Injuries: Your Body's Healing Power

Greetings to the my favorite science community online, StemSocial,

It's @skyehi and I'm back once again with an awesome blog post following the series on Stem Cells.

I started this series of Stem Cells last week in this community and so far it's basically been a refresher course for me as well, because I had to learn more before sharing the blog with everyone.

In today's blog post we're going to briefly discuss how Stem Cell Therapy is helping as a good treatment for Orthopedic Injuries.

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Now hopefully if you've been following my series, you'll definitely understand what Stem cells are and their important roles in the body.

Just a summary for those that may not already know, Stem cells are cells that are not specialized by default to perform specific functions in the body but has the ability to specialize into different types of cells and perform the functions of that cell.

For example we know the red blood cells are specialized to carry oxygen from the lungs and deliver it throughout our body and liver cells break down fats and produce energy.

The Stem cells are not specialized to perform any particular function but can transform into the red blood cell or the liver cells and perform their respective functions.

This unique ability of Stem cells make them very useful solutions to a lot of medical conditions. We talked extensively on quite a lot of medical conditions Stem Cells can handle including reducing the effect of Chemotherapy, regenerating heart muscles, insulin regulation to manage diabetic conditions.

For today's blog we're going to focus on one medical condition that Stem Cell therapy does a great job of handling. We're going to focus on Orthopedic Injuries.

In a situation where you're invloved in an injury and you mess up a joint or a bone, it can be really painful.

There are a lot of traditional fixes like reaching for the first aid kit, surgery or pills that might help, but the problem is that they're not always the best solutions.

Stem Cells are like your body's hidden superheroes. They step up to the plate in orthopedics.

Stem cells are very useful when it comes to fixing your worn-out body parts, thorn ligaments and fractured bones

There are very painful dieseases like osteoarthritis which can be seriously painful. Mostly patients have very creaky and weak knees, making standing or normal movement a bit of a challenge

The great thing about Stem Cells is that instead of patients masking and trying to manage the pain with medications and painkillers, Stem cells can be used to fix the problem.

How does it happen?

Well the doctors take these little stem cells from your body or the body of a donor, and with advanced technology and scientific techniques, transform the stem cells into the dead or injured bone cells and then inject them back into your knee.

The stem cells locate the region of the fracture or damage and help your cartilage grow back.

That eases the pain and makes you more mobile. The impact of this on patients is less pain and faster recovery times.

We all know how long it takes bones to heal but with advanced stem cell therapy, recovery time is cut almost in half.

Let's also consider a scenario where your shoulder's acting up pretty badly especially when you have a really nasty rotator cuff tear.

Seriously guys life's not fun in situations like these. I don't know if you've had an issue with your shoulders before, it always has a way of arresting your mind's attention from everything and constantly concentrating on the pain.

The good thing is that surgery isn't the only answer. Stem cell therapy can do wonders in a situation like this as well.

What doctors basically do is to inject the stem cells into the part of you body where it hurts. That immediately kick-starts the healing process.

The stem cells travel to the particular region of the injury and start the work of specializing and regenerating cells of that region to replace the dead or damaged cells.

You'll be raising your arm without the pains in no time. This is the wonders of science and the future has even more prospects.

Now let's consider another issue like a chronic back pain, something most old folks and athletic people suffer a lot from.

Chronic back pains are usually from worn-out discs. It's no picnic for people suffering from this issue. I witnessed one patient going through that problem. They basically can't even decide whether to lye down or sit. When they lye down, they feel the pain because of the pressure, when they sit they also feel the pain so they're basically left in agony.

Some extreme cases may require surgery but instead of going under the knife, you can go for stem cell therapy.

The procedure for Stem Cells Therapy is pretty much the same. Stem cells get injected into those damaged discs, coaxing them to heal. It slowly reduces the pains until the entire damaged region is healed. Patients can now feel relief and live healthier lives.

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I believe broken bones are the worst of the orthopedic injuries. The pains the patients go through is unimaginable. Breaking a bone can also be a real setback, especially if it's taking forever to heal.

You become slow and you're less productive at work. If you're an athlete it's even worse. You're basically out of action for months or even years.

Now with Stem Cell Therapy there's hope for those patients. These tiny stem cell powerhouses can be infused into the body and sent right to the fracture site, helping your bone heal up faster.

That means you'll be getting back on your feet and back to your life sooner.

There's just so many situations that can be effectively and conveniently managed or solved with Stem Cell Therapy.

As I added in my blog post yesterday of the greatest scientific breakthroughs, I believe Stem Cell Therapy is one of the best of all time.

Stem cell therapy is like calling in the cavalry for your orthopedic injuries😁

Stem Cell therapy is basically about using your own body's natural healing abilities to fix what's broken. So it's pretty much your body self healing, the only thing the doctors do is to speed up the process.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read today's blog post as well. I hope you enjoyed it and found it informative and intriguing. As always I'm open for any question or comment regarding my blog post.

Have a lovely science day and catch you next time on StemSocial. Goodbye ❤️

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