Orthopedic and Spinal Applications

The article says the most dramatic orthopedic outcomes occurred in younger men with severely dehydrated intervertebral discs. Stem cell injection into painful dehydrated discs resolves pain in most, but not all, cases described by the practice. Fluid hydrodissection plus stem cell injection reportedly relieved chronic pain from entrapped nerves in referred Navy SEAL cases. Conservative functional medicine, movement therapy, and other interventions should be tried before regenerative injection for low back pain. Stem cell therapy is not presented as a first-line treatment for low back pain.