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Tag: Discogenic back pain

  • Cost Effectiveness of Regenerative Medicine – The Intervertebral Disc

    Cost Effectiveness of Regenerative Medicine – The Intervertebral Disc

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on August 30, 2022

    Douglas P. Beall, MD

    Dr. Douglas P. Beall discusses the cost-effectiveness of intervertebral disc (IVD) therapy for back pain. Dr. Beall begins with a discussion of conventional surgical and non-surgical approaches to back pain. He describes studies focusing on IVD, showing its greater efficacy compared to conventional methods. He compares the costs of conventional surgeries and IVD therapy. Dr. Beall effectively illustrates that IVD therapy is less invasive, more effective, and less costly than other surgeries for back pain.

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  • Viable Disc Tissue Allograft

    Viable Disc Tissue Allograft

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on July 22, 2022

    Dr. Meredith Langhorst presents the one year result of a randomized controlled trial on Viable Tissue of Allograft Supplementation in the Treatment of Degenerated Intervertebral Discs. Chronic back pain and discogenic back pain is the number one reason for people to miss work and the highest reason for general disability. She expresses the importance of looking at different ways to treat patients with low pack pain.

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  • Intradiscal Regenerative Therapies: State of the Art

    Intradiscal Regenerative Therapies: State of the Art

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on April 18, 2022

    Annu Navani, MD – Comprehensive Spine Sports Center

    Dr. Annu Navani presents innovative intradiscal regenerative therapies for spinal pain localized to the low back or spinal discs. Dr. Navani discusses the current market for stem cell therapies and investments in regenerative medicine companies that are sponsoring various clinical trials worldwide. She describes studies focusing on mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and explains the need for advances in regenerative medicine for clinical applications in pain management and tissue repair. Dr. Navani also discusses the first ever head-to-head multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled trial comparing platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or bone marrow concentrate (BMC) against a placebo for discogenic back pain, followed by the projected growth of regenerative therapies.

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  • Managing Discogenic Back Pain Without Surgery

    Managing Discogenic Back Pain Without Surgery

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on April 1, 2022

    Douglas Beall, MD, discusses managing discogenic back pain without surgery. Traditionally, patients can use physical therapy and chiropractic interventions to help manage back pain. Surgery can be used to help manage it as well; however, it is expensive and only 50% of patients improve after surgical procedures. Non-invasive methods for managing back pain include nerve ablation, and injections with stem cells, hydrogels, or amino acid peptides. The average procedure time for these non-invasive methods is 5.5 minutes, and studies show that there is significant improvement in pain, function, and quality of life.

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  • Stem Cell Augmentation and Degenerative Disc Disease

    Stem Cell Augmentation and Degenerative Disc Disease

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on July 9, 2019

    Dr. Douglas Beall explains the use of mesoblastic progenitor cells (MPC) to treat degenerative disc disease. He explains how MPCs are processed and injected into the disc and discusses the results for a phase II trial that used these MPCs for pain reduction and improved function for up to three years. He also discusses the successful VAST trial and the complex biochemical assays that were used.

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  • Common Low Back Pain – Lecture

    Common Low Back Pain – Lecture

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on May 31, 2018

    Dr. Hemmo Bosscher gives a lecture on the origination of low back pain, given that 90% is non-specific or idiopathic. He details his research using epiduroscopy as a diagnostic tool, and discovered that the peridural membrane is the cause of this “idiopathic” low back pain. He then explains the membrane’s histology, function, and distribution within the spine. He concludes with an explanation of how discogenic pain is directly correlated with this peridural membrane.

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  • Discogenic Low Back Pain

    Discogenic Low Back Pain

    [vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1517939115140{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #fbfbfb !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Published on March 31, 2017

    Dr. Fabricio Dias Assis talks about discogenic low-back pain and the conservative treatment he recommends. He first details the anatomy of the disc, including the blood supply and the innervation. Dr. Fabricio Dias Assis also explains how excessive pressures and forces can be deleterious to the disc by decreasing the blood supply and nutrition to the disc. He briefly discusses a paper he published in 2009 that reveals positive outcomes of treating discogenic back pain with pulsed radiofrequency on the involved dorsal root ganglion.

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