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Have you tried treatment options such as physical therapy, NSAIDS, or steroid injections have not provided significant relief?

Did you know that your own tissue may help you heal?
Every tissue in your body is constantly repairing itself. Adipose tissue (fat) has been widely studied in literature and is known to have an innate healing potential. The use of fat was documented during World War I to aid in the healing of soldiers’ battle wounds.1 Since then, a large body of research has shown a variety of promising applications for fat in healing and regenerating damaged tissues.

Benefits of Your Own Fat
Your own fat has been shown a variety of promising applications in healing and regenerating damaged tissues in orthopaedic surgery.

• Fat is abundant in the human body
• Fat can be easily accessed and harvested using a minimally invasive procedure and local anesthesia
• Fat contains many reparative cells that not only regenerate fat cells, but also promote a healing environment throughout the body 2,3
• Research has shown that regardless of a person’s age, their fat maintains the reparative properties 4,5,6 unlike other tissues such as bone marrow, which may lose healing capacity with age6

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