Medica Institute offer minimally invasive, non-surgical, safe alternatives for Diabetic Foot Ulcer treatment to get your life back on track!
All people with diabetes can develop foot ulcers and foot pain, a common complication of diabetes, forming as a result of skin tissue breaking down and exposing the layers underneath. They are most common under the big toes and the balls of feet, and they can affect feet down to the bones. In diabetic patients, wounds tend to heal more slowly and get worse faster.
Common first symptoms of ulcer are usually irritation of the foot, swelling, redness, odour and drainage from foot. Diabetics often have nerve problems and their ability to feel pain might be reduced, which is why sometimes small injuries might remain unnoticed. This increases the risk of diabetic foot, because patients may not be aware of the open foot sore that occurred, making it easier for infection to develop, because the damaged area is left untreated. The sign of a more serious case of ulcer can be visible in the form of skin darkening around the targeted area. Gangrenes can also develop, causing pain and numbness.
Delayed treatment might result in serious complications particularly if secondary bacterial infection occurs. Delayed wound healing is directly related to uncontrolled blood sugar levels resulting in poor blood circulation and diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage in hands and feet).
Statistics show that diabetic foot affects between 15-25% out of all diabetics. Patients suffering from this syndrome have a hard time finding an adequate treatment and medications that will help them keep symptoms in check. Once a person starts experiencing the difficulties of diabetic foot, they tend to struggle with it for a lifetime.
An innovative approach to treatment of diabetic foot and ulcers is the use of Regenerative Therapy which has demonstrated its ability in promoting healing through stimulating new blood vessel formation (angiogenesis) and providing the extracellular matrix. Stem cell is the extremely effective treatment for diabetic foot, which offers help in a completely new way. It not only treats the symptoms and work on keeping them under control, but they have the ability to fight the very core of the problem.
Our bodies already possess stem cells naturally as a part of their repair system, which is why when these cells are enriched during the treatment they can bring better results and work on rebuilding damaged organs and body parts more. This means that once stem cells reach the targeted area that is being treated, they not only stop the further damage from happening, but also reverse the damage that has already been made by the disease. As a result, symptoms decrease drastically and patient’s overall health is at a much better level.
At Medica Institute we offer the revolutionary minimally invasive non-surgical same day procedures treatment using Regenerative medicine under local anaesthetics. We harvest your own mesenchymal cells and take a simple blood sample to obtain PRP. Both samples are processed in our state of the art laboratory using cutting edge technology and prepared in no longer than a few hours to be re-injected locally around the wound area. This will accelerate the healing, start to regenerate tissue and combat the pain. Some improvements can be visible soon after completing the treatment, but patient will mainly keep noticing new benefits and symptoms reversing during the course of the next 2-4 months. Regenerative Therapy has reduced the need for prescription medications, debridement, the removal of dead skin and surgical procedures, proving to be a helpful tool towards managing and healing Diabetic Foot Ulcers. Early treatment with Regenerative Therapy also might prevent the catastrophic complication of limb amputation.
Regenerative Therapy has helped untold amounts of people to improve their quality of life. It by means of several protocols will ultimately help initiate the self-healing cycle in the injured part of the body and the end result then is pain relief.
Non-surgical Regenerative Treatments are a same-day procedures and the options are:
• Platelet-rich plasma – PRP therapy
• Mesenchymal cell therapy
• SVF (Stromal vascular fraction) therapy
In certain cases it may be a combination of more than one treatment protocol. For some patients however, the complete protocol is a series of injections in several treatment sessions. The choice of treatment is at the discretion of the Consultant and is based on your unique case.
This treatment may however not be suitable for all patients and only after review of your individual cases can the Consultant be able to discuss your options.
Please contact us for a consultation and complete assessment to determine whether or not your condition can be treated with these minimally invasive, non-surgical regenerative procedures.
What are the top Benefits of Non-surgical Regenerative Treatments?
With so many options out there, you may be wondering what benefits choosing Non-surgical Regenerative Treatments provides. Over all Regenerative Treatments are minimally invasive, non-surgical same day procedures with no risk of rejection, minimal recovery time and minimal worry. You are fully awake and ready to go home within a few hours after injections in the affected area. Since you undergo an autologous transplant with the cells that originated within your own body, your immune system has no reason to attack them and is in turn much safer than other outside sources, there is no risk of contracting a transmittable infectious disease from a donor patient also. In fact, studies thus far have indicated no safety issues with fat-derived autologous (from self) cells. Because they are your own cells, the risk of rejection is eliminated. Like any procedure, there is a minute risk of infection at the sample collection and at the injection site. To minimise that risk the procedure is carried out under strict sterile conditions.