"Enhancing Regenerative Treatment with Nutrition: How Effective Is It?"

So, you have decided to opt for regenerative treatment towards permanent pain relief. Taking that decision is a good start, but by combining it with non-invasive holistic interventions such as nutritional advice and physiotherapy, you can enhance the effectiveness of the regenerative treatment. Patients often enquire whether diet plays a vital role in improving the outcome of regenerative treatment. The answer is definitely yes! Healthy eating has been linked with several factors, including reduced inflammation, better sleep, lower stress levels, weight loss and improved mood and energy levels. Regenerative therapy promotes the body’s healing mechanism by targeting the damaged or injured area and regenerating new cells. Good nutrition, which includes all essential nutrients, may prove more effective in helping with recovery post-treatment. Combining nutritional education with dietary programmes will provide a comprehensive treatment plan that aims to help the recovery process and improve overall diet quality. By utilising this combinational healthcare approach that promotes quicker healing and regeneration, people hope to live long and healthy lives. What are the benefits of following a Nutritional Programme?

Nutritionists take a holistic approach that focuses on how people can use dietary choices to reduce their disease risk. Having a good balance of foods and nutrients and including foods with anti-inflammatory properties can protect the body from certain diseases and help in healing and recovering from regenerative treatments. By following nutritional advice, you may experience many benefits, including:

• Improved healing and recovery from sports “wear and tear” or even surgical procedures
• Weight loss
• Improved mood
• Increase in energy levels
• Improved sleep
• Improved sports performance
• Improvement in chronic conditions
• Stress relief
• Healthier eating habits
• Reduced risk of future medical conditions
• Enhanced immune support

What do research studies say about the combination of regenerative therapy with nutrition for healing?

Studies show that following an anti-inflammatory diet can help the regenerative process. In a study conducted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Neurosurgery, an anti-inflammatory diet led to the reduction of symptoms. Nearly 70 per cent of patients were able to discontinue prescription medications. Research studies reveal that chemical-based medicines have no regenerative ability. Contrarily, they interfere with the body’s self-healing ability and make it degenerative. Supplements like fish oil have been proven to promote more stem cells to enhance quick recovery. For instance, research studies reveal that omega-3 fatty acids in fish oils can combat arthritis pain. Our body produces most of the essential fats, except omega-3 and omega-6. By consuming oily fish twice a week or fish oil capsules of high-quality grade, you may get relief from arthritis pain. At times, physicians recommend omega-3 consumption instead of NSAIDs as it is comparatively safe.

Take away

Under the medical team’s guidance, you can adopt dietary changes to improve your diet quality and health. Through a nutrition programme, you may get back on track quickly so you can live your best life.

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"Achieve Pain Relief with Regenerative Treatment and Physiotherapy"

 

Regenerative therapy is a branch of medicine that helps repair, restore and regenerate damaged or injured cells to rebuild impaired function caused due to trauma, ageing and diseases. Physiotherapy, if started alongside regenerative treatment, can help patients recover to their optimal level. Regenerative rehabilitation therapy evolves as the combination of regenerative medicine and physiotherapy. While regenerative therapy targets the cause of the pain by triggering the healing process, physiotherapy enhances that recovery and give longer-lasting effects by strengthening. 

After undergoing regenerative therapy, your physiotherapist can recommend personalised exercise programmes to achieve your goals. By following recommended Regenerative rehabilitation therapy, patients can return to their everyday lives as quickly as possible.

What is Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is the maintenance or improvement of mobility, physical abilities, fitness and quality of life using movement, exercise therapy and other physical methods. Both regenerative medicine and physiotherapy go hand in hand to reduce pain and increase the quality of life. As pain decreases, the ability to move and strengthen increases; this is where a physiotherapist plays a significant role to recommend the right strategy at the right time. The typical customised rehabilitation programme includes:

• Biomechanical assessment and goal setting
• Graded movement within pain levels
• Strengthening exercises
• Balance rehab
• Resistance training
• Functional rehab
• Electrical stimulation

What physiotherapist does?

The physiotherapist’s role is to help you recover optimally by evaluating your movement and prescribing the relevant exercise programme accordingly. However, it is you who must take active participation in the recovery procedure.

Throughout the sessions, the physiotherapist will monitor the progress of your recovery by carefully checking the strength and endurance as well as symptoms like pain or swelling, if any. Always inform your physiotherapist if you are having any difficulty adhering to your programme so that the physiotherapist can adjust the exercises to suit you. Eventually, by sticking to your exercise program, physiotherapy will help you in increasing your resistance level, improve mobility, function and wellbeing.

What are the benefits of Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy involves active movements to help prevent patients from losing function by activating muscles and enhancing sensory pathways.

• Active movements such as strengthening, balance exercises, coordination, and endurance training can stimulate muscle memory, promote signal transmission in nerves, and inhibit atrophy.
• Physiotherapy can restore the range of motion, increase muscle strength, and promote functional recovery. It can improve your balance and coordination to reduce the risk of falls.
• Physiotherapy can assist in reducing inflammation, pain and swelling to restore mobility and flexibility.
• Physiotherapy also promotes wellbeing in a patient and, combined with Regenerative treatment, can provide advanced results in joint pain treatment.
• Passive treatments such as massage, cold and heat therapy can also work as a pain reliever; however, they may not give as long-lasting effects as strength and movement.

Take away

Regenerative rehabilitation therapy can be the right solution to reduce joint replacement surgeries’ financial, physical, and emotional burden. Under the medical team’s guidance, you can adopt physiotherapy after the regenerative treatment to achieve its full benefits. Through physiotherapy in combination with regenerative medicine, you may be able to restore, maintain and improve your mobility, function and wellbeing and relieve the symptoms of joint pain faster so you can get back to an active, pain-free life.

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Jumpstart Hip Bursitis Recovery with Regenerative Therapy!

 

Have you been treating your hip pain with NSAIDs and steroids for a long time? You might have got only short-term relief with recurrent flare-ups. Continuous use of cortisone steroid injections can increase the rate of degeneration and cause even lethal complications [1]. Moreover, worsening of symptoms, reduction of native healing stem cells in joints, and tendon ruptures have also been reported [2].Why not opt for therapies that help you to regenerate rather than degenerating the hip joint area?

What is hip bursitis?

Bursae is a small fluid-filled sac that cushion and lubricate the bones, tendons, and muscles around your joints to help in smooth movement with reduced friction. Hip bursae are located between the hip bone and glutei muscle attachments. Hip bursitis is defined as the inflammation of the bursa that affects the hip joint due to its repetitive overuse. Hence, the hip movement becomes restricted and painful.

Hip bursitis causes

Hip bursitis can be caused by incorrect posture, muscle weakness, direct hip injury, bone spurs in the hip, uneven leg lengths, irritation due to rubbing of hip muscles/tendons with bursa, spine problems like scoliosis, diseases including gout, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, thyroid disorder, etc., and hip replacement/surgery.

Know the hip bursitis symptoms

A sharp pain followed by a dull aching pain is the primary hip bursitis symptom which will slowly migrate to other regions such as buttock, thigh and legs. You will feel hip pain while performing the following activities:

• Walking or running
• Climbing stairs
• Lifting the leg up to the side
• Sitting for a prolonged time
• Sitting with crossed legs
• Getting up from sitting posture
• Lying on the affected hip

Other hip bursitis symptoms include swelling, tenderness, warmth around the affected area, and the intermittent redness of the skin around inflamed bursae.

Is hip bursitis diagnosis right or wrong?

People visit the clinic for hip bursitis treatment. But do they really have bursitis? Bursitis causes intolerable pain, where it is impossible to touch the skin over the inflamed hip area. But if the affected part can be palpated by putting extra pressure, the patient may not have bursitis. At times, tendonitis (inflammation of tendons) and tendinopathy (degenerated tendon) are often misdiagnosed as bursitis. A research study revealed that patients with trochanteric pain often had bursitis. Similarly, most of the patients with bursitis had tendinopathy [3]. Hence it is mandatory to check whether the diagnosis is right or wrong.

Conventional hip bursitis treatments:

• Initial treatment of patients with hip bursitis may include rest, activity modification, and physical therapy.
• Walking sticks or crutches were used to help in mobility. A physical therapist may recommend hip-strengthening exercises to improve flexibility.
• Ice pack application for 3-4 times per day can also help reduce the swelling, inflammation, and pain.
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) medications function as a painkiller.
• Injection of one or two doses of corticosteroids with an interval of 4-6 months can reduce pain and inflammation. But still, many patients continue to have pain and functional limitations. In a research study, 33% of patients required two corticosteroid injections to improve the symptoms, while some had even five injections [4].
• Hip bursitis surgery options include hip arthroscopy, where the bursa is removed through an incision in the hip region. Though surgery is an option, it is recommended only when there is no improvement with non-surgical treatments.

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