Sports injuries are common in competitive sports, they result a drastic change in ones quality of life. These sudden injuries may affect bones, joints, muscles and ligaments. With the exception of injury to bones (fracture), the other types of sport injuries result in formation of a scarring, also known as fibrosis. Fibrosis leads to development of painful contractures, also increases the risk of repeat injuries along with limiting the ability to return to pre-injury state of physical well being.

When it comes to sports injuries, intially there is medication given for pain, surgery if required to repair broken bones. Thereafter, to minimize the effects of the injury in the long run, and to achieve near pre-injury levels of fitness stem cell therapy can be taken advantage of. Research shows that treatment with adult stem cells can greatly minimize inflammation, induce bone and tissue regeneration, and accelerate recovery times.

HOW DOES STEM CELL THERAPY BENEFIT SPORTS INJURIES?

Your adipose (fat) tissue contains the required components to aid in repair and healing of the body, it is the most abundant, accessible and potent for longer, source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) found in your body. Small amount of adipose tissue is withdrawn and processed to increase the concentrations of stem cells, when administered at injured site, they have the potential to:

• Treat widespread inflammation
• Stem cells propogate into the replacement bone or cartilage cells
• Reduce scarring
• Prevent any further premature cell and tissue necrosis
• Stimulate the growth of new blood vessels, this promotes the rate of healing

The Procedure

Stem cell treatments at TheSwissClinic are minimally invasive, most often a outpatient procedure so patient may go home the same day. Recovery times vary patient to patient, we strive to keep our patients downtime to the minimum. What happens at our clinic on the day of your procedure:

• Physician makes a tiny puncture through your skin either in abdomen or thighs, to harvest a small amount of fat.
• The fat is then processed in a Lipogems device using sterile saline solution. During this gentle process of micro-fragmentation, fat is washed, rinsed and resized into smaller clusters all while maintaining its natural healing phenomenon. This closed-loop system removes blood, fatty oils and inflammatory cells, leaving behind the concentrated fat (pericytes) which is therapeutic.
• Physician injects the resultant cells into the treatment site, under ultrasound or 2D-fluoroscopic guidance. This ensures the stem cells properly reach where they are required.
• Over the course of next 6-8 weeks, healing process continues as nature had intended for us, all while having excellent pain relief.