Specialist in sports and regenerative medicine?
Yes, I struggled for long years in the emergency room, for my own pleasure.
Assist athletes.
I treat injuries of high-level athletes: joints of elbows, shoulders, knees, hips; cartilage, bones, vertebrae.
Give an example of injury.
A paramotor pilot crashed: five broken vertebrae, channel occupation...
What is that?
Intervertebral material spilled into his spinal cord. Destination: wheelchair.
Did you manage to avoid it?
In two months he was working again.
Miracle of regenerative medicine?
Of the new techniques of regenerative therapy. Traumatology has a present of drugs and prosthetics... and a bright future of regenerative medicine.
What is regenerative medicine?
The one that I practice in my interventions.
What do your interventions consist of?
I inject growth factors.
What are growth factors?
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
Does that plasma regenerate tissues?
That is. Patient's blood centrifuged to obtain platelet-rich plasma...
What's so special about platelets?
Cell fragments from the bone marrow facilitate wound healing.
I have always healed well.
It enjoys a blood rich in platelets.
And how are these platelets applied?
I multiply them by ten, then infiltrate them.
Where do you infiltrate them?
In the tissue that regenerate. It is autologous medicine: we regenerate the patient's tissues using her own blood.
What tissues are regenerable?
All. Cartilage, which is aneural (without nerve innervation) and avascular (without blood injection): we infiltrate growth factors and thus cartilage will grow from the bone, from the inside out.
Is it a new cartilage?
A completely regenerated cartilage.
translate.
Fully restored, entirely. As if she had always been there in perfect condition, come on.
This seems wonderful to me.
It is, today regenerative therapies are responding very well in many cases.
What protocol do you follow to infiltrate the PRP into the tissue?
I inject it into the tissue with very fine needles. And I do that after a MUA (manipulation under anesthesia) protocol.
What's that?
An osteopathic manipulation of the anesthetized patient applied by Dr. David Ponce, an osteopathic expert.
What does this MUA manipulation bring?
It opens intervertebral spaces, and thus facilitates my injection in the exact area of the intervertebral discs, if that is the case.
And the tissue of those intervertebral discs regenerates in just two months?
Yes. On the other hand, I also practice intraosseous injections...
To regenerate bone, I understand...
Yes, and also intramuscular injections (regenerate muscles), intraneural (nerves), intradural (dura mater)... The use of growth factors is improving day by day in Spain: it is already being used after certain oncological surgeries!
What surprises does the future of regenerative medicine hold for us?
It is reproducible, practical, sustainable and inexhaustible; it will grow the biomedical industry in this way, and it will have a valuable drift: reversing aging.
Oh yeah?
Elon Musk is already investing in this field. One of my patients, for example, is 62 years old and has completed forty marathons...
AND?
His knees are knocked out... but I've injected him with PRP and the man keeps running! And with annual regenerative maintenance, he'll have 70% fewer injuries.
With more or less economic cost?
A prosthesis costs ten times more than a regenerative treatment.
Does running often injure the joints so much?
It wears them out: I prefer to run on a bicycle, and I highly recommend the exercise bike. Running wears joints and causes tendon and muscle injuries.
What other applications will come to us?
Embryo implants, with more than 70% success; diabetic ulcers; dry eye, corneal lesions, eye ulcers; healing in complications of colostomies and fistulas; scar fibrosis; sciatic hernias; calf rupture and Achilles tendon, hair follicle implants...
In how many sessions are there results?
Three sessions of injections every fortnight... and the healing will begin to be noticed.
