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If you have an injury or long-term pain, you don’t have to mask your symptoms with pain relievers. The team at Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates in Voorhees and Turnersville, New Jersey, offers cutting-edge solutions, including regenerative medicine that works to heal your body. To see if regenerative medicine is right for you, call either office or request an appointment online today.

WHAT IS REGENERATIVE MEDICINE?

Regenerative medicine is a specialized area of medicine focused on harnessing your body’s natural ability to heal. These therapeutic approaches work by introducing healthy cells that prompt the healing process into areas of your body with damage or disease.

When you have a regenerative medicine treatment, your body works to repair damaged tissue, regenerate new cells, and restore healthy function in the area. Because of its ability to trigger the healing process, it’s a valuable tool for treating a wide range of conditions, including:

• Headaches
• Joint degeneration and osteoarthritis
• Injuries to your shoulders, hip, and knee
• Chronic pain, especially in your shoulders, neck, or back
• Conditions like myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia

There are several different types of regenerative medicine techniques, including stem cell therapy and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy.

WHAT IS STEM CELL THERAPY?

This form of regenerative medicine relies on your stem cells to restore your health. These cells are the foundation of your body and can become several different types of tissue. You can find stem cells in different areas of the body, from bone marrow to placenta tissue and amniotic fluid.

When your provider at Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates injects stem cells into your injury or pain source, they trigger the healing process, and your pain diminishes.

WHAT IS PLATELET-RICH PLASMA THERAPY?

PRP therapy takes advantage of the vital growth factors found in your blood to help you heal.

This regenerative medicine technique involves drawing your blood and spinning it in a centrifuge machine to concentrate these growth factors. At this point, your provider can inject them into your injury site to trigger the healing process.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE TREATMENTS?

Regenerative medicine offers numerous benefits. Not only are they minimally invasive, but they also come with few side effects and don’t require any downtime.

Additional advantages of regenerative medicine therapies include:

• Reduced pain and inflammation
• Restored mobility
• Decreased friction between your joints

Improved tissue health When you have regenerative medicine therapy, the healing process begins, but it can take a few weeks or months before you see results.

To learn more about the benefits of regenerative medicine, call Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates or request an appointment online today.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) uses your body’s natural regenerative ability to accelerate healing, rebuild tissues, and ease the pain of musculoskeletal injuries and diseases. The experienced team at Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates precisely inject PRP, allowing the platelets to trigger healing and support new tissue growth. To learn if you would benefit from PRP, call one of the offices in Voorhees or Turnersville, New Jersey, or request an appointment online today.

WHAT IS PRP?

PRP is a type of regenerative medicine that promotes healing by injecting a mixture of concentrated platelets and plasma. Both components are naturally found in your blood. Plasma is the liquid part of your blood, while platelets are cells that perform two jobs.

Any time you suffer an injury, platelets go to the area and stop the bleeding by making blood clot. Platelets also release specialized proteins called growth factors. The growth factors trigger healing, regulate inflammation, and stimulate new blood vessel growth.

Growth factors also recruit stem cells to the area. As stem cells regenerate the new cells needed to repair damaged tissues, the growth factors help build a matrix that supports the new tissues.

When you receive a PRP injection, the platelets do the same thing, which accelerates the healing process.

WHERE DOES PRP COME FROM?

Your PRP treatment comes from your own blood. Your provider at Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates draws a blood sample and processes it in a centrifuge. The centrifuge creates your PRP by separating the platelets and plasma from other blood components. As soon as your PRP is ready, your provider injects it directly at the site of your injury. They can precisely inject the PRP by using real-time imaging to see your tissues and guide the needle.

WHAT CONDITIONS ARE TREATED WITH PRP?

PRP is widely used for many different orthopedic conditions. These are a few of the most common musculoskeletal problems that improve with a PRP injection:

• Arthritis
• Meniscus tears
• Rotator cuff tears
• Sports injuries
• Tendonitis
• Tennis elbow
• Plantar fasciitis
• Achilles tendonitis
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Knee ligament injuries
• Muscle and tendon tears

Your provider can use PRP for nearly any condition that causes joint pain. If you need orthopedic surgery, your provider at Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates may add PRP to the site before closing your incision.

PRP is really beneficial if you have a severe injury that overwhelms your body. You may also need PRP when your injured tissues don’t have a good blood supply or you have a slow-healing wound.

If you have questions about PRP, call Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates or request an appointment online today.

Suffering an injury that inhibits your ability to enjoy sports and other physical activities is both painful and frustrating. If you want to be back in action as quickly as possible, the highly experienced sports medicine experts at Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates can help. At their Voorhees and Turnersville locations in New Jersey, they offer conservative treatments and surgical interventions to restore you to fitness. To benefit from their expertise, call your closest office today or request an appointment online.

WHAT IS SPORTS MEDICINE?

Sports medicine concerns the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries that happen when participating in sports. These types of injuries can also occur when you're training, exercising, or taking part in any kind of vigorous physical activity.

Sports medicine experts can also assist with injury prevention and help you optimize your sporting performance.

The sports medicine specialists at Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates manage all types of sports injuries, from acute problems like broken bones and ligament tears to chronic pain from overuse injuries and arthritis.

WHAT SORTS OF CONDITIONS DOES SPORTS MEDICINE TREAT?

Athletes can suffer from many different kinds of injuries, although some are more likely to affect you if you participate in certain types of sport. Sore and strained muscles are some of the most common problems seen in sports medicine. Others include:

• ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) tears
• Meniscus tears
• Collateral ligament tears (MCL and LCL)
• Fractures and dislocations
• Shin splints
• Hip and shoulder labral tears
• Patella (knee cap) dislocation
• Achilles tendinitis
• Rotator cuff tears
• Bursitis

Problems like tendinitis and bursitis are often the results of overuse or repetitive strain. Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) and golfer's elbow (medial epicondylitis) are good examples of this – although they can happen to anyone, not just golfers and tennis players.

Wear-and-tear on your joints can also lead to osteoarthritis, causing joint pain, stiffness, and weakness.

WHAT TREATMENTS ARE USED IN SPORTS MEDICINE?

If you have a severe, acute injury like a fracture or dislocation, you should get emergency medical attention. However, most sports medicine problems don't require surgical intervention and improve with less invasive approaches.

Your provider prepares a specialized treatment and rehabilitation program for you that aims to get you back to full strength and fitness as soon as possible. Some of the therapies in use at Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates include:

• Rest and activity modification
• Medication
• Physical therapy
• Bracing or splinting
• Stem cell therapy
• Platelet-rich plasma therapy
• Steroid injections

If these measures are unsuccessful, or you have a condition that won't improve without intervention, your provider can discuss the surgical options with you.

WHAT TYPE OF SPORTS MEDICINE SURGERY MIGHT I NEED?

The type of sports medicine surgery you need depends on the condition you have, your age and health, and the impact of the injury on your sporting activities. Surgeries that Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates specializes in include:

• Rotator cuff repair
• Joint replacement
• Tendon transfer
• Ligament reconstruction

Where possible, your surgeon carries out these procedures using minimally invasive arthroscopic techniques. That means less tissue damage, bleeding, and pain, and a faster recovery.

If you incur an injury playing a sport, call Advocare South Jersey Orthopedic Associates today or request an appointment online.