Regenerative medicine stimulates and supports your body’s ability to repair itself. When included in spinal surgery, treatments like PRP injections and stem cell therapy flood your surgical site with the cells, growth factors, and other proteins needed for cell generation and tissue repair. 

These cells stimulate your healing process, which can help you recover more rapidly. This could reduce your overall discomfort and help you get back to work and your regular activities more quickly. 

Most types of regenerative spine surgery follow the same protocols and processes as conventional spine surgery. A member of the team prepares you for surgery, and you are given general anesthesia. 

Then, our providers make the necessary incisions in your body to access your spine. Whenever possible, they use minimally invasive techniques to complete your procedure, which requires just a few small incisions instead of a single large one. 

Our providers complete your procedure, extracting damaged disc and vertebral tissue, adding bone grafts, and making any other necessary repairs. Then, before closing your incisions, they inject stem cells and/or PRP into your spine. 

After regenerative spinal surgery, you wear a back brace for a few weeks to support and stabilize your spine while you heal. We provide personalized aftercare instructions. We usually prescribe medicine to prevent infection and manage any post-surgical pain.

As you recover, you begin physical therapy to restore your strength, flexibility, and range of motion. You learn how to move your body correctly and maintain proper posture. 

At the same time, the regenerative treatments should support and accelerate your healing process. Everyone responds to treatment differently, and our providers might recommend that you have additional regenerative injections to help your recovery.

If you are interested in regenerative spinal surgery, call New Life Ortho or make an appointment online today to learn about your options.