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(CBS) Is it the future of pain relief, the end of pain pills, physical therapy and knee or hip replacements? <\/p>\n
CBS 2s Mary Kay Kleist looks at a new procedure offered at only a handful of places. Its still a bit controversial. But some doctors and their patients swear by it. <\/p>\n
Linda Morning-Starpoole suffered terrible knee pain, the result of sports injuries when she was younger. <\/p>\n
Traditional treatment might involve steroid injections, physical therapy and joint replacement. But she wanted an alternative. <\/p>\n
The thought of me healing me with through my own stem cells is what sold me on the procedure, she says. <\/p>\n
Heres how it works: Doctors take bone marrow from the hip and spin it in a machine to get the stem cells. Those cellsare then mixed with the patients platelets, a type of blood cell involved in healing. <\/p>\n
The mixture is injected back into the joint, where the stem cells turn into new tissue, reduce pain and improve function. <\/p>\n
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