North Carolina
Welcome to the Carolina Stem Cell Treatment Center, located in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area. We are offering institutional review board treatment protocols for a variety of medical conditions. Our highly qualified and trained team of physicians are dedicated to forwarding the science of adipose derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy is for a variety of chronic illnesses.
Carolina Stem Cell Treatment Center is part of the Essential Health & Wellness practice. Our mission is to focus on the prevention of diseases by guiding our patients to lead a long and truly healthy life. Through diet, exercise, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), and sharing our technical knowledge and skills, we assist our patients in the anti-aging process to reach their goal to total wellness.
Contact our office if you are interested in participating in Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved research into the use of your own fat derived stem cells. We are at the forefront of legitimate medical research into the use of autologous stem cell rich treatments of a variety of chronic illnesses.
We are now actively engaged in IRB approved studies looking into the treatment of the following conditions/illnesses:
ORTHOPEDICS
NEUROLOGY
CARDIAC/PULMONARY
OPHTHALMOLOGY
AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
LICHEN SCLEROSIS
About Dr. Matt Kanaan
Dr. Kanaan’s Philosophy
At Wake Sports Medicine we focus entirely on non-surgical and minimally invasive treatments to relieve pain, promote healing, rehabilitate, and prevent future injuries. We also strongly feel that the key to a long and healthy lifestyle is to stay active, and we make every attempt to return patients to the recreational and competitive activities that they enjoy.
Dr. Matthew G. Kanaan
Originally raised in Raleigh, NC, Dr. Matt Kanaan is a board-certified sports medicine physician and knee pain specialist who received his medical residency training at Duke Medical Center. During his fellowship training at Duke Sports Medicine, Dr. Kanaan received special instruction in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound – a unique, state-of-the-art technology in the orthopedic field. While completing training in Primary Care Sports Medicine, Dr. Kanaan served as an assistant team physician for Duke Football, Basketball, and Lacrosse, as well as assisting with Elon University Football. Currently, he volunteers with local endurance races such as the Raleigh 70.3, and Rock and Roll Marathon, as well as being adjunct faculty with Campbell University’s new School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Kanaan is an avid researcher, publishing many research projects to advance the field of sports medicine. He is passionate about finding new, cutting-edge ways to help patients return to the activities they love through nonsurgical treatments. Dr. Kanaan enjoys a wide variety of sports, as well as traveling with his wife when he has time away from his practice.
CLINICAL INTERESTS
Nonsurgical techniques such as PRP, Stem Cell Therapy, Ultrasound Guided Injections and Diagnostics, and the treatment of tendonitis, arthritis, and sports injuries.
Stem Cell Therapy
Recently there has been an interest in “orthobiologics”, or using a patient’s own cells in an attempt to stimulate healing and decrease pain: Namely platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and mesenchymal stem cell injections.
Mesenchymal Stem cell therapy works by using the patient’s own stem cells in an attempt to stimulate healing. There are several different types of stem cell sources, including amniotic, bone marrow and adipose tissue (or fat tissue). Dr. Kanaan is currently performing injections using both adipose and bone marrow as he feels that the evidence supports these sources over the use of amniotic stem cell injections. The evidence for stem cell injections is promising with most case studies showing decreases in pain scores, and increases in activities. However, Dr. Kanaan makes it clear to all of his patients that these procedures are purely experimental, and that there are no large clinical studies that show regeneration of tissue with either the PRP or the stem cell treatments.
It is a same-day procedure that takes about 60 min from start to finish. If you are flying, you may fly home the same day, but there will be increased pain/discomfort after the procedure. If you are driving, you should have a driver, as there can be some mild to moderate discomfort in the first few hours following the procedure. Typically we do one stem cell injection, followed up with a platelet-rich plasma injection. If you are coming in from out of town, this will be taken into consideration and may be modified. Our protocol is continually evolving, so this is ultimately decided on a case-by-case basis.
For adipose (fat) tissue stem cell therapy, lipoaspirates are obtained from the abdomen or “love handle” area through a quick liposuction procedure. The gentle liposuction takes a few minutes, and the whole time in the office is an estimated 60 minutes.