When Our Own Cells Catalyze Healing

25/11/2020 15 min Episodio 10
When Our Own Cells Catalyze Healing

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Episode Synopsis

We're learning more about the growing field of orthobiologics, the use of treatments derived from individual patients' own cells and injected at the injury site to promote healing. Dr. Allison Schafer, a nonoperative sports medicine physician at the UConn Musculoskeletal Institute, offers bone marrow aspirate concentrate, or BMAC, for this purpose. She joins Carolyn and Chris to explain how it works and what makes it effective.
(Dr. Allison Schafer, Carolyn Pennington, Chris DeFrancesco, December 2020)