BLA 039: Stem Cell Injections

Building Lifelong Athletes · Aug 22, 2023 · 18m

In this episode we cover a very popular topic that is super controversial in the Sports Medicine community, and that is stem cell injections. The potential for these injections sounds amazing, but what do we really know about them?

Time Stamps:

00:00 - Introduction

00:29 - Stem Cell definition and mechanism

05:32 - Bone Marrow Concentrate (BMC)

08:47 - Adipose Derived Stem Cells

11:27 - Bone Marrow vs Adipose Tissue

12:04 - When do we use stem cells?

14:06 - Considerations

14:49 - My take

References

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmrj.2013.05.007

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmr.2022.08.004…