Hoo boy. You sure got the run-around this time! I hope you can find some alternative to surgery and not have to mess with all those appointments and waiting. Ugh.
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I wish there was some other way, too. If you find one, please let me know. I do not know why they can't take a caulking gun and shoot some caulk between the bones, but that would be too easy.
What a concept! (Caulking gun).
Wharton's jelly - inject! inject! inject!
Quack doctors book hotel conference rooms for free seminars aimed at senior citizens, pitching their injections of stem cells into arthritic knees and joints. It's very expensive. The one I attended claimed to be the only medical facility in the state to offer this. Wrong. A "physiatrist" in my own town offered the same thing for half the price.
Wharton's Jelly Injections have been used as a stem cell therapy to treat chronic pain, arthritis, SI joint pain, and sacroiliac joint pain. Using umbilical cord Wharton's Jelly, learn about the potential long term pain relief benefits of PRP and Platelet Rich Plasma therapy. Discover how this stem cell treatment is being used in regenerative medicine and stem cell research to help relieve joint pain without the need for OTC medications or physical therapy.
"Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have emerged as a cell type with great potential for cell-based articular cartilage repair ..."
Surely it isn't just for knees.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Researchers at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida have conducted the world's first prospective, blinded and placebo-controlled clinical study to test the benefit of using bone marrow stem cells, a regenerative medicine therapy, to reduce arthritic pain and disability in knees...
Umbilical cord-derived Wharton's jelly for regenerative medicine ...
Wharton's jelly is a primordial mucous connective tissue of the umbilical cord present between the amniotic epithelium and the umbilical vessels . The key role of Wharton's jelly is to provide cushion, protection, and structural support to umbilical vessels by preventing their compression, torsion, and....
WOW I did not know they could do this, I was joking about getting caulking injected into my hand and here it is true they can do it.
I have been to the Mayo Clinic many times with my daughter, she has MS.