When Our Own Cells Catalyze Healing

<p>We're learning more about the growing field of orthobiologics, the use of treatments derived from individual patients' own cells and injected at the injury site to promote healing. <a href='https://health.uconn.edu/find-a-provider/physician/Schafer-Allison'>Dr. Allison Schafer</a>, a nonoperative sports medicine physician at the <a href='https://health.uconn.edu/orthopedics-sports-medicine/'>UConn Musculoskeletal Institute</a>, offers bone marrow aspirate concentrate, or BMAC, for this purpose. She joins Carolyn and Chris to explain how it works and what makes it effective.</p> <p>(Dr. Allison Schafer, Carolyn Pennington, Chris DeFrancesco, December 2020)</p>