There are many people who have had very successful ankle replacement surgeries. People who reach out to our office will share a similar story. They had an ankle replacement and they still have pain. Their surgeon has recommended moving over to a fusion surgery. To many of these people the point of getting the ankle replacement was to reduce their pain and allow them mobility to continue with “normal activities.” Fusion surgery will severely restrict those activities and movements in many.
One reason that a patient will continue to have pain after ankle replacement is joint loosening. The ankle replacement is no longer stable and the patient suffers from the same type of ankle instability that they had suffered from before the surgery. The difference here is that the surviving ligaments, tendons and other soft tissue are now being stretched as the ankle becomes wobbly. The other reason for pain after ankle replacement is the problem of nerve damage caused by the surgery. Let’s look at what the surgeons have to say and then we can discuss the possible treatment options that may allow some people to avoid a revision ankle replacement or an ankle fusion.
Can we help with your ankle pain?
Pain after an ankle replacement failure can be challenging to treat. In selected patients, pain can be alleviated with Platelet Rich Plasma and bone marrow aspirate stem cell injections. Injections are give into the surrounding and surviving ligaments and tendons. The soft tissue that hold the ankle together.
PRP treatments involve collecting a small amount of your blood and spinning it in a centrifuge to separate the platelets from the red cells. The collected platelets are then injected back into the injured area to stimulate healing and regeneration.
Stem Cell Therapy is the injection of a damaged area of the body with stem cells that have been drawn from the patient’s own bone marrow. Stem cells are “de-differentiated pluripotent” cells, which mean that they continue to divide to create more stem cells; these cells eventually “morph” into the tissue needing repair—for our purposes, collagen, bone, and cartilage.
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