.What is BMC Therapy and how does it work?
Bone Marrow Concentrate (BMC) therapy is a cutting edge, non-surgical regenerative therapy that captures cells and growth factors found within the patient’s bone marrow. We remove a small amount of the patient’s bone marrow and minimally process it to create a powerful concentrate that includes various growth factors, extracellular matrix, and beneficial cellular components that promote healing and tissue reconstruction. We then inject the concentrate into the damaged tissue.
Bone marrow cells are undifferentiated, which means they have the ability to transform themselves into a variety of different tissue types. When an injured site has an inadequate number of regenerative cells, for whatever reason, an injection of BMC provides the cells needed to heal while accelerating the body’s natural healing mechanism.
How is Bone Marrow Concentrate procedure performed?
After local anesthetic is injected at the skin above the iliac crest (pelvic rim) bone, a thin needle is placed about 1″ into the bone, which passes through the bone cortex into the marrow. Once the bone marrow aspiration is performed, the aspirate is briefly centrifuged to obtain bone marrow concentrate (BMC) that contains the various growth factors, cytokines, platelets, progenitor/stem cells, and other blood components naturally found within bone marrow.
How fast does BMC Therapy work?
Through recent scientific and medical advances, this process is now a simple, outpatient procedure and can be completed with minimal discomfort to the patient. We offer local anesthetic to minimize any discomfort, as well as sedation upon request. Post-procedure soreness at the injection site usually resolves within a few days.
