Sports Medicine Northwest: The Premier Regenerative Medicine Injection Therapy Clinic in the Northwest
- Our tissue allograft products come from a lab that is FDA inspected and approved. This is a rare industry standard that we meet.
- Our staff has performed thousands of successful stem cell and regenerative medicine treatments.
- Our diagnostic and clinical equipment is second to none.
- We have spared no expense to set the bar very high for a clinical standard of excellence in regenerative medicine. If you are considering this line of therapy. The process begins with a consultation right here at Sports Medicine Northwest.
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Stem Cell Therapy at Sports Medicine Northwest, West Seattle
Sports Medicine Northwest is a medically integrated clinic on the cutting edge of sports medicine. Therapies once limited to professional athletes with sponsors and travel budgets are now available here in the Admiral Junction. We have brought the effective clinical use of regenerative medicine to West Seattle. We coordinate the therapies of sports chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, and corrective exercise with the medical interventions of PRP and tissue allograft injections for optimal results.
What are Stem Cells Used For in sports medicine?
- Degenerative Joints
- Knee, Shoulder, and Hip pain
- Elbow pain including Medial Epicondylitis (golfer’s elbow) and Lateral Epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
- Tendon injuries such as de Quervain’s Tenosynovitis
What are Stem Cells?
At SMNW we use only Mesenchymal Stem Cells from 3rd party tested laboratory sources. Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) are derived from the umbilical cord tissue of healthy Cesarean child births. This cell line is particularly useful in sports medicine when cartilage regeneration and joint preservation is the clinic goal. You clinician has options on what source of cell tissue to use based on your clinical presentation and your individual goals and needs. Cell lines derived from tissues on the mother’s side of the placenta are full of healing factors there to help the mother recover from child birth. Cell lines derived from the child’s side of the placenta in the part know as the Wharton’s Jelly are a storehouse of MSC stem cells.
The clinical decision making of your clinician is a critical factor in the success of your procedure. That is why it is important to seek a practitioner with years of hands on experience in regenerative medicine.
How Do Stem Cells Work?
MSCs are always present in your body, but at decreasing rates as you age. By the age of skeletal maturity, the number of viable MSCs is reduced to 10% of the levels you had at birth.
MSCs are not anti-inflammatories. Instead they act as inflammatory modulators. What that means is that their presence signals to the body that it is time to move from the inflammation phase of wound healing to the collagen synthesis phase of wound healing. Scientists believe that is why studies consistently show improved cartilage quality in post-treatment MRI scans of knees treated with stem cell injections.
Are Stem Cells Safe?
MSC stem cells are very safe to use in sports medicine. The rare adverse effects are similar to the risks of any needle related procedure such as donating blood.
The injected MSCs are not prone to tumor formation and circulate, doing their work in your body for 4-8 months before being cleared by your immune system. The source of our regenerative tissues have no blood or red blood cells so matching blood type is not necessary.
The few cases of adverse effects associated with stem cell treatments involve user error in the administration of stem cells rather than any inherent risks of the medicine.
How do I know if Stem Cells can help me?