Knee Treatment at OrthoNovo
If you suffer from chronic knee pain due to arthritis or an old injury, or you’ve recently injured your, cartilage, knee meniscus or ligaments (ACL, MCL) and you are hesitant to opt for painful surgery with long recovery process. You may benefit from non-surgical stem cell injections or stem cell-enhanced surgery.
About the Knee
The knee is the joint where the bones of the upper leg meet the bones of the lower leg, allowing hinge-like movement while providing stability and strength to support the weight of the body. Flexibility, strength, and stability are needed for standing and for motions like walking, running, crouching, jumping, and turning.
Several kinds of supporting and moving parts, including bones, cartilage, muscles, ligaments, and tendons, help the knees do their job. Each of these structures is subject to disease and injury.
When a knee problem affects your ability to do things, it can have a big impact on your life. Knee problems can interfere with many things, from participation in sports to simply getting up from a chair and walking.
Stemnovo combines a patient’s own bone marrow stem cells with AmnioNOVO™ amniotic membrane tissue to treat bone, muscle, tendon, ligament and cartilage damage in the knee. AmnioNOVO™ is composed of collagens and other structural proteins, which provide a biologic matrix that supports angiogenesis, tissue growth and new collagen production during tissue regeneration and repair.
Will a stem cell injection fix my knee?
This depends on the nature and severity of the knee ailment.
For example, Stem cell injections cannot heal inflammation or degeneration caused by loose bodies like cartilage or bone fragments inside the knee joint. This needs surgical intervention to remove the loose bodies. However, products such as AmnioNOVO™ can be used to promote faster recovery.
As one can see in the picture to the left, these loose bodies can be quite large.Stem cells can be used to temporarily alleviate some of the pain caused by this kind of condition, this does not address the root cause of the problem. The symptoms will, however, recur and degeration will continue until the loose bodies are surgically removed.
What makes Treatment at OrthoNovo Different?
Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate (NovoMAC™)
Learn More…AmnioNovo™ - Amniotic Tissue Product
Learn More…At OrthoNovo, we augment NovoMAC™ with AmnioNOVO™, a proprietary, pliable tissue allograft (transplant) derived from human placental amnion, which functions as a biologic structural matrix to facilitate and enhance tissue healing and repair. AmnioNOVO™ contains 108 different growth factors including WNT-4 and prostaglandin.
Prostaglandin inhibits inflammation, which occurs after injury and marks the beginning of the healing process. The faster we can tame this inflammation, the sooner the body can move on to the next phase of healing, regeneration. It’s important to note that AmnioNOVO™ has more than 60 times the amount of prostaglandin compared to other products.
WNT4 is arguably the single most important molecule required for wound healing. AmnioNOVO™ has more than 10 times the amount of WNT4 as competing products.
Common knee conditions treated at OrthoNovo Institute:
Below are common knee conditions we treat at OrthoNovo. If your knee condition is not listed, please contact us to see if you are a candidate.
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Sprain/Tear
- Baker’s Cyst
- Bursitis
- Chondromalacia
- Enthesopathy
- Iliotibial Band Syndrome
- Knee Replacement
- Medial Cruciate Ligament (MCL) Sprain/Tear
- Medial Plica Syndrome
- Meniscus Injury
- Osgood-Schlatter Disease
- Osteoarthritis/Degenerative Joint Disease
- Patellar Tendonitis/Tendinosis
- Patelofemoral Syndrome
- Pes Anersine Bursitis
- Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) Sprain/Tear
- Quadriceps Strain/Tear
- Runner’s Knee
- Tendonitis or Tendinopathy
