{"id":166678,"date":"2020-12-01T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=166678"},"modified":"2021-04-13T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:23:18","slug":"podcast-healing-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/12\/podcast-healing-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Healing With Our Own Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a drug, we&#8217;re just taking your own components&#8230; You are only receiving your same cells and it all happens in the same visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>\u2014Dr. Allison Schafer<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some bone, joint, tendon and ligament injuries are now treatable using what&#8217;s known as an orthobiologic approach. It&#8217;s when the patient is injected with a therapy derived from his or her own cells.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of this include platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC), both of which are available at UConn Health. <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Schafer-Allison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Allison Schafer<\/a>, a nonoperative sports medicine physician in the UConn Musculoskeletal Institute, explains the process and benefits of BMAC in the latest UConn Health Pulse podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"opuNpoIhlT\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/when-our-own-cells-catalyze-healing\">When Our Own Cells Catalyze Healing<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;When Our Own Cells Catalyze Healing&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/when-our-own-cells-catalyze-healing\/embed#?secret=KPfqCALh8C#?secret=opuNpoIhlT\" data-secret=\"opuNpoIhlT\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a drug, we&#8217;re just taking your own components&#8230; You are only receiving your same cells and it all happens in the same visit.&#8221; \u2014Dr. Allison Schafer Some bone, joint, tendon and ligament injuries are now treatable using what&#8217;s known as an orthobiologic approach. It&#8217;s when the patient is injected with a therapy derived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2287,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-166678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orthopedics","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-27 05:03:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166686,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166678\/revisions\/166686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166678"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=166678"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=166678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}