Injections of concentrated bone marrow aspirate as treatment for Discogenic pain: a retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are an overwhelming number of patients suffering from low back pain (LBP) resulting from disc pathology. Although several strategies are being developed pre-clinically, simple strategies to treat the large number of patients currently affected is still needed. One option is to use concentrated bone marrow aspirate (cBMA), which may be effective due to its intrinsic stem cells and growth factors.

Methods

Thirty-three patients who received intradiscal injections of cBMA to relieve LBP were followed up based on Numeric Rating Scale (NRS), Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Index (ODI), and Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) scores. Patients were also subdivided into those with a pre-injection NRS > 5 and pre-injection NRS ≤ 5. The proportion of patients demonst

SUBMITTER: Wolff M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7049206 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature