Tower of Power™ For Back Pain
If your neck or back pain is preventing you from reaching, bending, twisting and lifting, and you are not able to do the activities you love like hiking, playing sports, or traveling, and you want to avoid surgery and medications, regenerative spine therapies through our Tower of Power™ system may be the answer.
Spine pain most often affects your neck and lower back, areas where severe acute or nagging chronic pain can halt your daily life. If you cannot comfortably sleep, sit, walk, or stand to do your daily activities, your body is in a stressed state of inflammation, high tension, and low resilience which makes it even harder to heal itself.
Tammy Penhollow, DO, at Precision Regenerative Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona, specializes in today’s most innovative and effective regenerative treatments, including Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), bone marrow derived adult stem cell therapy (BMAC), and prolotherapy.
She developed a system-based approach to help you heal from the inside out to reduce pain and inflammation in the immediate term, but also to strengthen and stabilize the spine for re-injury prevention in the long term. This is her signature Tower of Power™ and it is designed to return you back to the activities you love WITHOUT surgery and WITHOUT prescription medications.
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Spine Pain Q&A
What causes spine pain?
Neck and back pain often arise from soft tissue injuries like pulled muscles or ligaments. These injuries typically occur during athletic activities, while lifting a heavy object, or from a whiplash injury.
Overuse injuries are another common source of neck and back pain. When you repeatedly make the same movements, soft tissues can develop small tears. If you do not give your body time to heal, these tiny tears may progressively turn into more chronic injuries.
As you age, degenerative changes in the spinal joints and discs may lead to chronic neck and lower back pain. Common sources of spine pain include:
All the conditions in this list can cause the sensation of a “pinched nerve”, a condition called radiculopathy. If you have a pinched spinal nerve, you may experience pain or tingling that radiates up into your head, down between your shoulder blades, into your arms, or down your buttocks and into your legs.
How does regenerative medicine address spine pain?
As a Interventional Spine fellowship-trained specialist, and a Regenerative Medicine subspecialist, Dr. Penhollow offers several treatments that effectively relieve your pain by reducing inflammation and promoting your body’s active healing of the damaged tissues. Your treatment may include:
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy
Dr. Penhollow takes a sample of your blood and separates the platelets using a centrifuge to produce PRP. The PRP is precisely delivered under ultrasound and fluoroscopic (x-ray) guidance to the areas of injury and arthritis. After placing PRP at the injured tissues responsible for your neck or back pain, the platelets release growth factors. Growth factors then accelerate healing and regulate inflammation.
Adult Bone Marrow Derived Cell Therapy
Dr. Penhollow offers adult bone marrow derived stem cell therapy using autologous orthobiologics, which means she uses your own cells harvested from bone marrow in your upper pelvis.
This treatment, called bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) therapy, can produce results because adult bone marrow contains stem cells called mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as well as dozens of proteins containing growth factors and anti-inflammatory mediators. One of the most powerful is IRAP
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is the inflammatory mediator that keeps arthritis going and keeps the joint in a degenerative state. Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist protein (IRAP) competes with IL-1 for the same receptor in the joint or disc, thus stopping the degeneration of the cartilage, capsule, and synovium (lining) and in the disc and soft tissue ligaments and muscles.
After Dr. Penhollow separates and concentrates the bone marrow aspirate in a centrifuge, she precisely delivers injects it under fluoroscopic (x-ray) guidance into the discs, epidural space, facet joints, sacroiliac joints and under ultrasound guidance into the spinal ligaments and muscles where the injuries and arthritis are.
Prolotherapy
During a prolotherapy treatment, Dr. Penhollow uses ultrasound to precisely deliver a solution containing a concentrated dextrose and a local anesthetic into the soft tissues including ligaments, muscles and fascia around the neck, middle back, and/or lower back. The dextrose solution activates the healing response, which in turn recruits circulating platelets and anti-inflammatory mediators in the bloodstream to the injured area.
How can I rehabilitate my spine to prevent pain?
We use EmSculpt® treatments to strengthen your core muscles and stabilize your spine. EmSculpt® uses electromagnetic energy to stimulate the growth of new muscle tissue. Increasing muscle mass around the spine can help prevent future spine pain. Proper body mechanics and posture are very important components of rehabilitating spine pain and reducing future flares or progression of degenerative states. During our partnership with you, we collaborate with other professionals to give you individualized 1:1 treatment specific to your sport and goals.
If you need relief from spine pain without surgery or pills, call Precision Regenerative Medicine or request an appointment online today.