Solutions Integrated Medicine Blog

     Modern medicine and more advanced information about health is keeping us upright longer, but unfortunately our joints are having trouble keeping up. Whether we’re harder on them than we used to be or we’re just living longer, the problem is we’re outliving our joints. And from the extremely high number of joint replacement surgeries performed each year, it appears  traditional treatment is losing the battle against this condition; there are 600,000 knee replacements/year in the U.S. and the number climbs higher every year (1.).

     Joint replacement surgery is considered by many to be a marvel of medical science; a technological breakthrough that has definitely improved the lives of millions of people. Yet doctors advise waiting as long as possible to get it, patients do just about anything to avoid it and insurance companies don’t want to pay for it. The problem is the astronomical costs and high rate of complications make joint replacement surgery everyone’s last option despite it’s successes. Until now, this was the only answer for bone on bone joints.

     Regenerative medicine shows much promise for helping failed joints and is one of the only methods that actually improves joint space. Regenerative medicine requires no invasive surgery so there are no complications. This exciting new branch of medicine uses human tissue allografts from immune privileged sources, so there is also no chance of rejection and very little concern of adverse reactions. Rather than replacing body parts with unnatural prosthetics with short shelf lives, regenerative medicine pours new wine into old wine skins by helping the body heal from within. Regen med is a much safer, more cost-effective procedure and should be considered by everyone facing joint replacement surgery. If you have chronic joint pain and would like to avoid surgery, contact us!     

      More and more patients in the Tri-Cities are getting relief for their shoulder problems, knees, hips, elbows and spines from the regenerative medicine and chiropractic treatments we offer at Solutions. Even though this branch of medicine is still very new, help for acute injuries, torn ligaments and degenerative arthritis using human tissue allografts for the large joints is becoming more common, more available and more known. Now there are many top orthopedic clinics and professional athletes who regularly incorporate regenerative medicine for natural help with their knees, shoulders, hips, spine and elbows. Most people are unaware that this treatment is also very effective for the smaller joints too!

     Sometimes hip pain sufferers end up suffering much longer than they should. When you have hip pain, it’s important to get evaluated by a holistic practitioner. This is one who takes the whole body into account rather than just the area of pain. As there are numerous causes of hip pain, sometimes diagnosis can be tricky. Fortunately, common imaging (MRI, x-rays) is helpful for figuring out most hip pain from pathology, deterioration or misalignment. However it’s the referred pain cases traditional medicine tends to struggle with; allowing the patient to suffer longer than necessary.