Special Announcement - Now Screening for FDA Approved Stem Cell Study
Dr. Mitchell Sheinkop has completed training and is credentialed for an FDA-approved stem cell clinical trial for knee arthritis. Our clinic is now screening patients for this trial. Contact us at 312-475-1893 for details. Click here to learn more.

Options for treating patients with osteoarthritis of their joints are historically limited to pain medication, anti-inflammatory medications, steroids, physical therapy, chiropractic care, or any combination thereof. These treatments provide temporary symptom relieving care, but do not offer therapeutic benefit in altering the degenerative disease progression. While pain medication, steroids and anti-inflammatories may help temporarily with pain management, they do not have a long-lasting impact on healing of articular cartilage in the arthritic joint. Without a regenerative therapy, the osteoarthritis will continue to progress, and ultimately will result in a total joint replacement as the only option to manage pain. While the majority of joint replacements have proven successful, there is an inherent complication risk; sufficiently significant enough that a patient prior to surgery might want to look for a means of postponing, perhaps avoiding a joint replacement. A treatment that might slow or even reverse the degenerative process. Four and a half years into my Cellular Orthopedic initiative, I believe the evidence I have compiled supports the use of the patient’s own concentrated bone marrow derived cells (BMC) in combination with the patient’s own concentrated Platelets and Plasma as an alternative to a major joint replacement.

Accomplished in a surgi-center under local anesthesia, an intra-articular injection, with image confirmation of needle and orthobiologic placement, is performed with Concentrated Bone Marrow mixed with concentrated Platelets and Plasma. Recently, based on publications in the scientific literature, I have added a subchondroplasty, that is an injection of some Bone Marrow Concentrate and Platelet Rich Plasma Concentrate into the bone adjacent to the joint. After six months of having introduced the subchondroplasty when indicated to the intra-articular injection, the presumptive evidence encourages me to continue the combined procedure. I started with the knee and I have extended subchondroplasty to the hip and shoulder.  

When I began the combined procedure, that is injecting Bone Marrow Concentrate into the joint as well as into the bone adjacent to the joint, I limited the indication to patients under age 60. In August of 2016, a clinical paper was published reviewing the results of said interventions into patients older than 60; Total Knee Arthroplasty versus cell therapy in bilateral knee osteoarthritis in patients older than 85 years. Space doesn’t allow me to reproduce the entire article but in those patients who had a TKR on one side and a combined intervention into the knee and into the bone supporting the knee with Bone Marrow Concentrate, the majority of patients expressed a preference for the stem cell therapy.

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