The discs in your spine act as shock absorbers for your body.  Over time and as a normal part of the aging process the discs and other joints in your body may wear out or become degenerative. The pathway to degenerative disc disease or arthritis involves a cycle of biomechanical factors and cellular processes that lead to cell death. This leads to chronic back pain and joint pain.

Fortunately this degenerative process can be addressed naturally.  One of the options Dr. Larson uses to treat this degenerative disc cascade and potentially reverse the painful process is an autologous regenerative injection.  Autologous cells and other regenerative products come from your own fat, bone marrow, or blood.   Dr. Larson use’s sound proven techniques and methods to obtain these cells, proteins, and other natural proliferation factors the day of your regenerative injection and then injects them directly into the injured disc or any injured joint using image guidance.

Biologic Adipose-Derived and Bone Marrow-Derived Regenerative Injections

Traditional lidocaine or steroid injections are effective to temporarily treat the pain.  Now, biologic regenerative injections using Adipose-Derived and Bone Marrow-Derived cells harness the power of biology to help you heal. Dr. Larson injects these regenerative cells into the degenerative discs, facet joints, and other joints to treat the pain caused by the degenerative disc or joint.

Both Adipose-Derived Regenerative Cell injections and Bone Marrow-Derived Regenerative Cell injections are minimally invasive outpatient office procedures where your own autologous cells are harvested, prepared, and then injected into the degenerative disc or joint to potentially restore disc or joint structure and function and reduce the pain.

See video to learn “Why Fat?” how Dr. Larson uses regenerative medicine technologies to treat patients with a variety of musculoskeletal conditions including arthritis, back pain, and joint pain.