Regenerative Medicine in Pain Treatment

سال انتشار: 1397
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: انگلیسی
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 23 آذر 1397

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Regenerative medicine includes treatments like PRP therapy and stem cell therapy. The most common conditions that have been successfully treated using regenerative medical procedures include arthritis and injuries to cartilage, tendons, muscle, bone, spinal discs, and other tissue types. For many patients, it can help them: Reduce pain, get back to their daily activities and be more productive at work. Chronic pain can affect a person’s ability to function during daily activities and their job responsibilities. Pain increases a person’s rate of physician appointments, disability claims, and loss of productivity. Using estimates from both acute and chronic pain conditions, back pain alone accounts for pain in approximately 90% of adult population in the world.When using Regenerative Medicine to help with pain management there are several important factors to consider. The first aspect is to stimulate healing and repair. The second aspect is to create a non-degenerating situation. Moreover, the mechanism is not only about the actual cells but the effect these cells have on nearby cell populations in a particular part of the body. For these patients, regenerative medicine may be able to help. Regenerative medicines are cutting-edge therapies that use chemistry, medicine, robotics, biology, computer science, genetics, and engineering to construct a biologically compatible structure for many different tissues found in the body. Although relatively new in the field of acute and chronic pain management, regenerative medical procedures do date back as early as 1962.Regenerative medicine offers a number of different benefits, including: Faster recovery time following the procedure, Improvements in joint, ligaments, and tendon function, No significant incisions or trauma to the area, Very little pain or discomfort during the procedure, No general anesthesia, Renewal and repair within the joint or tissues, Very low side effect profile, Little risk of allergy or adverse reactions. Further, regenerative medicine therapies are relatively new and historically have very few studies documenting their effectiveness on different types of pain conditions. The FDA has not approved the use of adult stem cells to treat aging or to prevent, treat, or cure any disease or medical condition mentioned. In addition, many regenerative medicine studies and treatments involve the use of living stem cells. Both legal and ethical issues are inherent in the use of embryonic stem cells. Although stem cell research holds great promise for the development of successful treatment modalities for conditions that thus far have no permanent treatment, research also raises both ethical and political controversies. However, reprogramming adult stem cells to produce pluripotent stem cells avoids these ethical issues that are specific to embryonic stem cell research. Adult or pluripotent stem cells are used for the majority of all regenerative pain medicine approaches, but always talk to your doctor if you have further questions.Up to 90% of the population will experience a painful condition at one time in their life that affects their daily functions. There are some estimates that back pain costs $100 billion annually, which includes medical expenses and loss of productivity. Chronic pain also has a number of negative consequences in an individual’s life, including emotional and mental distress. This emotional and mental trauma also contributes to an increase in perception of pain. Regenerative medicine therapies can help some patients reduce their pain and get back to their life.

نویسندگان

Nader Ali Nazemianyazdi

Pain Fellowship, Assistant Professor, Amir Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences