A sports injury can affect every aspect of your game, from your stamina while training and exercising to your overall athletic performance. While it is tempting to try to return to your normal routine as quickly as possible, your body needs time to properly heal. Otherwise, you are at greater risk of re-injury, chronic pain, disability, and other complications.
At Kore Regenerative Medicine, we offer targeted, lasting pain relief and therapeutic rehabilitation for sports injuries. Our treatment methods address every aspect of your overall health, including nutrition, sleep, exercise and training, range of motion, and injury prevention. We strongly believe that regenerative medicine is the most comprehensive, natural approach to accelerating healing and fully rehabilitating sports injuries.
What is Regenerative Medicine?
Regenerative medicine is a highly specialized and innovative branch of medicine. It focuses on the development of treatments and therapies that are designed to restore, replace, or rebuild damaged cells, tissues, and organs. There is a wide range of regenerative therapies available, and it’s important to understand which ones will be most effective for the specific area of your body you have injured and the type of injury you have. When you work with a skilled physician who specializes in regenerative medicine, you can explore targeted, lasting solutions for chronic or acute sports injuries.
Common Sports Injuries Treated with Orthopedic Regenerative Medicine
Research consistently shows that orthopedic regenerative medicine is one of the most effective holistic treatment options for a wide variety of sports injuries. Because the treatments focus on repairing damaged soft tissues, they can effectively jump start the body’s natural healing processes and reduce the risk of needing surgery or other more invasive treatments. We recommend using regenerative therapies for the treatment of:
- Damaged, torn, or ruptured nerves, tissues, muscles, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments
- Chronic or acute sprains and strains
- Hard to heal wounds and breaks
- ACL and rotator cuff tears
- Chronic joint pain and arthritis
- Dislocations
- Spine injuries
- Traumatic brain injury and concussion
Best Regenerative Medicine Therapies for Sports Injuries
It’s crucial to work with an experienced regenerative medicine doctor to determine which treatment options are right for you. Combining certain therapies can enhance your results, reduce your risk of re-injury or complications, and help you avoid future injuries. Some of the best regenerative therapies for sports injuries are:
- Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy – Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy uses concentrated platelets from your own blood to stimulate natural healing processes in your body. The platelets contain growth factors that accelerate tissue repair and relieve pain and inflammation. We will draw blood from your arm and put it through a centrifuge machine to separate the platelet-rich plasma from the blood. The concentrated PRP is then mixed with saline or another agent and injected directly into your injured tissues or joints. PRP can stimulate the release of cytokines and growth factors, improve mobility, and relieve pain, and it is often used to treat tendon and ligament injuries.
- Stem Cell Therapy – Stem cells are specialized cells that can differentiate into other cell types. Stem cell therapy uses these cells to promote the repair of damaged tissues or organs. We use adult stem cells that are obtained from bone marrow, tissue, or blood. We recommend the use of stem cell therapy to treat chronic sports injuries that have not responded to other treatment methods.
- Prolotherapy – Prolotherapy uses injections to introduce an irritating agent into injured tissues. The most common agent used is dextrose. Your body responds to the irritant by releasing healing and pain killing hormones, chemicals, and nutrients. We recommend prolotherapy for the treatment of chronic injuries like sprains and strains.
- Orthopedic Therapy – Orthopedic therapy is a specialized type of regenerative medicine that focuses on the treatment and healing of damaged bones and tissues. Orthobiologics can treat chronic and degenerative sports injuries that have not responded to other treatment methods. We can also use orthopedic therapy as an alternative to surgery, or to help you prepare for or recover from surgery.
- IV Therapy – IV therapy introduces therapeutic substances intravenously so that they can be used by your body immediately, bypassing the digestive system. We can use IV therapy for stem cell therapy, or we can use one of our specialized Kore IV therapies, designed to boost your immune system, relieve chronic pain, improve energy and endurance, improve athletic performance, relieve or prevent dehydration, and enhance surgical recovery.
Exploring the Benefits of Regenerative Medicine for Sports Injury Treatment
Because regenerative medicine therapies are all-natural, they offer many benefits and are very low risk. Some of the biggest benefits are:
- Accelerated healing and recovery of soft tissue injuries
- Relief from pain and inflammation associated with acute or chronic injuries
- Improved joint function and range of motion
- Potential to avoid surgery or other more invasive treatment options
- Improve surgical outcomes and reduce the risk of post-surgical complications
- Enhance the quality of injury rehabilitation
- Reduce reliance on or avoid the need for prescription painkillers
- Minimally invasive and often uses the body’s own cells for treatment
Learn More About the Benefits of Regenerative Orthopedic Therapy
At Kore Regenerative Medicine, our goal is to help our patients recover from sports injuries faster without risk of complication or re-injury. We use a combination of all-natural regenerative therapies that are designed to enhance or stimulate the body’s own internal healing abilities. Our treatment options can help you reduce your reliance on painkillers, avoid the need for surgery, and return to training or playing the game you love faster. Our regenerative orthopedic specialists have experience working with athletes of all ages, at all levels. We tailor your treatment plan to your specific injury as well as your overall health and athletic goals. To learn more about the benefits of regenerative orthopedic therapy for sports injuries in Golden, CO, call us now or contact us online to schedule a consultation.
