Foot & Ankle Institute of Miami Beach offers the latest in advanced stem cell and blood platelet procedures for foot and ankle conditions. Before you consider ankle surgery, fusion or replacement, consider the world’s leading cell-based therapy and prp injection treatments to help alleviate pain with a non-surgical injection procedure.

Stem cell therapy has made captions in the medical field in recent years in United States. Many people have sought stem cell therapy in other countries as an option for non-surgical management of injuries and conditions. Various types of stem cells are utilized by our team of physicians at the Foot & Ankle Institute of Miami Beach. Each physician is an expert in their field and will recommend the appropriate cell-based therapy procedure during your one-on-one consultation.

How does cell-based therapy work?

Stem cell treatment takes advantage of the body’s ability to repair itself. These stem cells have anti-inflammatory properties, similar to cortisone and steroid shots. However, stem cell therapy goes far beyond the benefits of standard “injection therapy. Cell-based therapy treats orthopedic joints and injuries, muscular injuries, wounds, ligament injuries, arthritis, back pain, along with reversing anti-aging and cosmetic enhancement.

While cortisone and other drugs only provide temporary pain relief, stem cells actually restore degenerated tissue while providing pain relief. The list below represents the most commonly treated foot and ankle conditions using restorative cell-based therapy. This is not a complete list, so please contact our office to learn more about conditions treated.
PLATELET RICH PLASMA THERAPY – (PRP)
Foot & Ankle Institute of Miami Beach treats hundreds of patients with injuries of the foot and ankle with Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP) with proven results. Patients travel from all over the globe to receive PRP therapy to aid in their recovery and expedite healing of surgical wounds and injuries. Dr. Allison Guyen, FACFAS is the leading regenerative physician specialized in PRP therapy and Stem Cell therapy. Dr. Guyen has lectured nationally and internationally on her experiences with regenerative medicine for many years.
There has been much attraction and medical media about PRP in the last several years and its proposed indications. Many celebrities and professional athletes have received PRP for various problems and chronic conditions thus allowing the exposure of this science to the general mass population. This is one modality that is considered as a non-surgical open approach to aide in healing of acute tendon ligament injuries, muscle injuries, adjunct to certain surgical procedures, arthritis, fractures, wounds, and cosmetic.

What is Platelet Rich Plasma? (PRP)
Platelet-rich plasma is a blood component that has been enriched with platelets. The PRP contains rich in autologous growth factors and cytokines that can help stimulate healing of bone and soft tissue in the body.
Platelets are an integral part of your blood that contains a high concentration of bioactive proteins, especially growth factors, that initiate a signal conduction cascade, which in turn stimulates your body’s natural healing process in order to repair damaged tissue. Platelet Rich Plasma or PRP treatment is your body’s natural healing process, however much more concentrated.
The concept of this treatment is that PRP not only stimulates but also aids the body’s natural healing response of damaged tissue. PRP accelerates the process of recruitment of necessary bioactive proteins to the damaged area and allows for the creation and maturation of collagen fibers to strengthen the tendons and ligament of the damaged site.