Regenerative Sports Medicine
Traditional approach to sports injuries is falling short when it comes to the needs of today's youth athletes. With young athletes engaging in intense training at increasingly early ages, their bodies often struggle to cope with the strain. Add to that the year-round competition with limited time for rest and recovery, and you have a recipe for overuse injuries. The relentless pursuit of excellence in sports is pushing athletes beyond the limits of their physiology, resulting in chronic overuse injuries in youth, early-onset degenerative conditions, and painful joint replacements in later years.
At Blue Umbrella Medical Center, our mission is to safeguard young athletes, rejuvenate older ones, empower elite players, and ensure that everyone can continue playing their best game! By harnessing cutting-edge technologies and innovations in Regenerative Medicine while honoring the principles of biomechanics, we can deliver unparalleled results at any age!
At Blue Umbrella Medical Center, our mission is to safeguard young athletes, rejuvenate older ones, empower elite players, and ensure that everyone can continue playing their best game! By harnessing cutting-edge technologies and innovations in Regenerative Medicine while honoring the principles of biomechanics, we can deliver unparalleled results at any age!
Recognizing when young athletes are in pain can be challenging for parents and coaches. Distinguishing between growing pains (or typical soreness) and genuine injuries that demand attention can be incredibly stressful. Our deepest fear is a career-ending injury that robs a young athlete of their dreams and potential.
The prevalence of year-round sports and the lack of cross-training opportunities often lead to the overdevelopment of specific muscle groups in young athletes, creating physiological imbalances. While this phenomenon can occur in any sport, it is more common in baseball, softball, swimming, gymnastics, soccer, volleyball, tennis, golf, cheerleading, and football. These muscle imbalances not only increase the risk of injury but also complicate the rehabilitation process.
As we age, our tissues become less flexible and more prone to injury. Scar tissue from past traumas can accumulate, causing pain and dysfunction. The longer we ignore these injuries, the more likely we are to develop compensatory patterns (e.g., favoring an injured right knee, which eventually leads to issues in the left knee). Treating painful joints in adult athletes often necessitates a comprehensive, whole-person approach.
Evaluating adult athletes requires a more in-depth assessment, and treatment protocols can be more involved. At Blue Umbrella Medical Center, our team achieves results where others have faltered because we address both the primary condition and any secondary issues or compensations.
Conventional sports medicine often relies on muscle relaxers, painkillers, steroids, and surgery. Muscle relaxers and painkillers come with numerous side effects and fail to address the root cause of pain. Steroid injections can damage joints and surrounding tissues, limiting the number of injections in a specific area. Surgery, despite the surgeon's skill, inevitably leads to scar tissue, and there is a stigma in the sports world associated with athletes who have undergone joint repair procedures. Scholarships and recruiting opportunities may become limited for players perceived as "damaged goods." This creates a real challenge for athletes who must work harder to gain the same attention and recognition as their peers.
First, we perform a Functional Movement Evaluation to determine whether the pain stems from a direct injury or secondary compensation (e.g., knee pain in a basketball player due to weak and immobile ankles). Addressing the root cause is crucial because conventional treatments often miss the mark by targeting the wrong area.
Second, we provide tailored exercises to rectify compensations, imbalances, or weaknesses. Our goal isn't just to alleviate pain but to facilitate complete healing, ensuring that the issue doesn't resurface. Often, the underlying problems are not immediately apparent, but once identified and treated, athletic performance can reach new heights!
Third, we identify the most effective regenerative therapies to expedite healing, minimize downtime, and deliver optimal outcomes for each specific injury. Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), a technique successfully used by professional athletes for years, is now an affordable option for the general population thanks to technological advancements. Staying in the game is crucial, and Regenerative Medicine offers remarkable results without the extended recovery periods or surgical stigma. Additionally, as Regenerative Medicine therapies are entirely natural, damaged tissues can heal without the formation of scar tissue or concerns about adverse reactions or addiction.
It's worth noting that Blue Umbrella Medical also offers IV Therapy, as optimal hydration and nutrients have been shown to accelerate tissue healing and recovery. IV Therapy provides the best absorption of these essential resources.
EDUCATION IS EMPOWERMENT
Peripheral neuropathy is a condition often associated with diabetes (about 60% of patients who suffer from diabetes will develop peripheral neuropathy) but it can also be caused by chemotherapy treatments, autoimmune disorders, nerve impingement, nutritional imbalances, infections, and can even be hereditary. The nerve disorder currently affects about 20 million people in the United States, and with the rising numbers of the above-mentioned conditions, that number is estimated to grow rapidly.
Various patients experience peripheral neuropathy differently. For some individuals, the pain may come and go, while for others, it's constant. Depending on the condition of the nerve, one can also experience tingling, numbing, a freezing sensation and or tickling in the extremities. In addition, neuropathy can also damage the brain’s capability to communicate properly with various regions of the body leading to difficulty walking, especially on uneven surfaces. As the condition worsens, individuals may experience coordination and balance loss along with a freezing pain, muscle weakness, or extreme sensitivity to touch.
What many don’t know is that these damaged nerves that are causing the neuropathy symptoms can be repaired. Peripheral nerves can and do regenerate, the issue for most suffering from neuropathy is that the nerves are being damaged fast than they can repair and the condition gets progressively worse. The key to successfully reversing neuropathy is two-fold: one, address the underlying factors that are damaging the nerves (ex. get the type II diabetes under control) and two, help speed up the regenerative process.
We are able now to accelerate nerve regeneration using Electric Cell Signaling (ECS); a device that promotes the dilation of blood vessels, increases blood flow, and reduces inflammation to repair and regenerate the nerve cells for healing. Using electronic signals or electrotherapy at specific wavelengths, the ECS system breaks the pain signals that pass in the nerves cells (also called axons) . As a result, they stop relaying the pain stimulus, giving you relief. Essentially, the ECS device reprograms the nerves to “forget” the pain patterns they have learned. It is used in combination with a series of injections of a proprietary blend of vitamins. The injections enhance the treatment by giving the nerves and tissues the building blocks they need to restore and repair.
Sanexas is the only ECS device published in multiple medical journals and used in clinical research proving the ability to reverse painful peripheral neuropathy and regenerate nerves. The average person will start noticing changes after 6-15 treatments. Some notice changes earlier or later depending on the area receiving treatment and level of damage, but it is necessary to receive a series (multiple treatments) for the treatment to be effective. While the results of Sanexas treatments have proven to be extremely successful, there is no guarantee. Neuropathy symptoms will be more likely to improve and less likely to return if patient makes the recommended lifestyle changes in conjunction with treatment.
When ECS is used in combination with adjunct therapies addressing the root cause or secondary conditions, the results can be quite dramatic. Especially in cases of neuropathy associated with diabetes, addressing the nutritional components of cellular health have had remarkable benefits for the pain symptoms and overall well-being. Type II diabetes, while having a genetic component, responds greatly to changes in diet and nutrition. As the diabetic condition improves, so do the secondary health issues such as neuropathy.
Corrective Chiropractic Care has been an effective adjunct treatment for peripheral neuropathy because it can target pinched nerves and helps to promote a healthy nervous system. Proper diagnostic exams must be performed to determine an appropriate course of treatment, but when used in conjunction with the above treatments, patient satisfaction ratings have been astounding.
Early diagnosis and treatment may reduce the severity of the motor and sensory nerve damage, vastly reducing treatment and recovery times. In addition, the pain symptoms associated with peripheral neuropathy can be an indication of other health conditions that need to be evaluated carefully. Getting a full diagnostic work up is highly recommended for those seeking long lasting relief.
Many of those suffering with neuropathy have lost hope when their pain medications (gabapentin being the most common) offer little to no relief and doctors have told them there is nothing else that they can do. ECS has been able to give these sufferers not only relief, but for so many, their independence back!
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