ATB Medical Services is a company that helps create an autologous biological product for surgical use, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), from the patient's whole blood. When the body becomes injured, a natural healing process occurs to repair the damaged tissue. The body signals platelets and other components to migrate to the site of injury. Under normal conditions, these platelets release a variety of growth factors and cytokines that will initiate and subsequently promote healing.
New advances in medicine have been developed to harness and concentrate these platelets and growth factors, to be precisely introduced to the injury (surgical) site in an injectable form. The implantation of this biological material effectively “propels” the body’s capacity for quicker healing and tissue repair. The healing in many instances has been associated with reduced pain and a quicker return to activity.
Along with PRP service, ATB Medical specializes and uses the latest technology to aid the physician in the collection of Bone Marrow Aspirate which is to be concentrated for the application of bone healing. Bone Marrow Aspirate contains Mesenchymal (a.k.a. Adult) Stem Cells. These MSC’s are multi-potent stem cells meaning that they can differentiate into many different cell types. Concentrated bone marrow aspirate contains mononuclear cells that may have the potential to create new vascular structures, as well as osteoblasts (a precursor to bone regeneration). Osteoblast differentiation from stem cells involves coordinated integration among diverse endocrine, paracrine and autocrine factors. Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate has always been of interest to surgeons for bone healing and regeneration.
