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| Stem Cells Can Form Many Different Cell Types - Stem Cells are multipotent and can differentiate into tendons, ligament, bone, cartilage, cardiac, nerve, muscle, blood vessels, fat, and liver tissue. |
Like all injectable solutions used with Prolotherapy, we use them to aid in healing. Prolotherapy, whether traditional Hackett-Hemwall Prolotherapy (HHP), Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy (PRPP), or Bone Marrow Prolotherapy (BMP), the goal is the same: to stimulate the repair of injured tissues. Bone Marrow Prolotherapy helps the fibroblastic proliferation where cell growth, proteosynthesis, reparation, the remodeling of tissues, and chondrocyte proliferation occurs. Our bone marrow contains stem cells. One type of stem cell found in the bone marrow is the mesenchymal stem cell. These immature cells have the ability to become tissues like cartilage, bone, and ligaments.
Typically the tissue that we are trying to stimulate to repair with BMP is articular cartilage, but we can also proliferate soft tissues structures such as ligament and tendons. This is new technology so we are studying it as we use it to treat patients. The medical literature supports its use in animals (more information on the details of BMP can be seen at www.bonemarrowprolotherapy.com) thus, we extrapolate this to its use in humans.
Our ultimate goal with all forms of Prolotherapy is to get the patients back to doing the things that they want to do without pain. It is our hope that the BMP treatments will form functionally, structurally, and mechanically equal to, if not better than, living tissue which has been designed to replace (or work alongside of) damaged tissue.
It is hard to prove the above statement because we cannot sacrifice human beings after Prolotherapy to see if the tissue looks and acts normally. We can however, report whether the patients who receive BMP are able to get back to all of the activities and sports they love, without pain or disability.
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