Musculoskeletal Pain Relief with Stem Cell Injections

September 30, 2014

(Medscape) – For the large portion of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain who fall into the chasm of not responding to noninvasive therapies but decline or are not candidates for joint or spine surgery, some clinicians are turning to autologous mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy — and seeing benefits. The evidence on the therapy’s efficacy is inconclusive, and the patient-reported levels of improvement typically fall short of a slam-dunk, but their reports of pain relief of at least 50% are relatively consistent — and in the challenging realm of chronic pain treatment, that’s getting somewhere, said Harry Adelson, ND, medical director of Docere Clinics in Park City, Utah.