Musculoskeletal Injury Treatment in Philadelphia

Regenerative ORthopedics

At Meeting Point Health, we offer a comprehensive selection of functional and regenerative treatments designed to meet a variety of health and performance needs.

Regenerative Orthopedics for Musculoskeletal Injury Treatment

Musculoskeletal injuries are one of the most common causes of pain and disability, but you can often make a full recovery with the right care. If you have musculoskeletal pain or sports-related injury, Dr. Steve Matta, DO, MBA, CAQSM, and Mary Anne Matta, MS, MA, LAC, of Meeting Point in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are experts in this field. We use an integrative approach with Regenerative and Functional Medicine techniques that effectively treat sports injuries, chronic pain, spinal pain, and joint pain. Call the Meeting Point office for more information, or schedule a consultation by requesting an appointment online today.

What are common types of musculoskeletal pain?

Playing sports and being physically active are excellent for your health but can increase your risk of having a musculoskeletal injury. Common sports injuries include:

  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
  • Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL)
  • Sprains
  • Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow
  • Achilles Tendon Injuries
  • Groin and Hamstring Strains
  • Fractures

You could also suffer an impact injury, which might cause a concussion if you hit your head. Overuse injuries are common as well, where constant use causes inflammation and the development of microtears in soft tissues or stress fractures in bones. Sports injuries are more likely to affect athletes but could happen to anyone.

One of the most common causes of back and neck pain is the deterioration of your spinal structures due to age and wear-and-tear. You might also develop a musculoskeletal injury like a sprain, strain, fracture, or whiplash.

These injuries often occur as a result of overexertion, poor lifting and handling techniques, falls, and auto accidents.

A meniscal tear is a common knee injury involving damage to the cartilage that cushions and stabilizes the joint. It often occurs during activities that involve twisting or sudden pivoting of the knee and can cause pain, swelling, and limited mobility.

A rotator cuff injury involves damage to the muscles or tendons that stabilize the shoulder joint, often due to overuse, trauma, or aging. It can cause pain, weakness, and difficulty with overhead movements.

De Quervain’s tenosynovitis is a condition causing pain and inflammation in the tendons of the thumb and wrist, often due to repetitive motions or overuse. It results in discomfort, swelling, and difficulty gripping or moving the thumb.

Plantar fasciitis is a common condition causing pain and inflammation in the plantar fascia, a thick band of tissue that supports the arch of the foot. It typically results in heel pain, especially during the first steps in the morning or after prolonged activity.

Examples of common joint injuries include:

  • Meniscal tears
  • Rotator cuff tears
  • Hip Labral Tears
  • Shoulder Labral Tears
  • Cubital tunnel syndrome
  • Plantar fasciitis
  • Sprained ankles
  • De Quervain’s tenosynovitis

Injuries like these can increase your risk of developing osteoarthritis, one of the leading causes of chronic joint pain.

Spondylolisthesis occurs when a vertebra slips out of place, often due to stress fractures, degenerative conditions, or congenital defects. This misalignment can lead to chronic lower back pain, stiffness, and nerve compression symptoms like radiating leg pain. 

How to treat a musculoskeletal injury?

Meeting Point Health doesn’t just treat your musculoskeletal injury. Your provider can support your recovery, promote healing, and optimize your physical fitness by analyzing your movement patterns so you don’t reinjure yourself with poor compensation. Dr. Matta will prescribe a plan including orthopedic and corrective exercises, diet, and nutritional supplements to promote faster recovery and healing.

These treatments focus on relieving discomfort and restoring mobility through various surgical alternative treatment options. Contact Meeting Point Health today to schedule your personalized consultation and start your journey to relief. Your path to recovery begins here!

Prolotherapy therapy is a medical injection procedure whose goal is to relieve pain and promote healing of musculoskeletal conditions, especially involving ligaments, joints, and tendons. Prolotherapy stimulates healing, causes inflammatory responses that increase blood flow and the arrival of immune cells and growth factors to the injection area, and tissue repair.

Platelet-rich plasma PRP therapy is a medical treatment that involves the use of a patient’s own blood to promote healing and tissue regeneration. Once injected, the growth factors and other bioactive substances in PRP work to accelerate tissue repair, reduce inflammation, and promote the formation of new blood vessels. This helps in reducing pain, improving function, and enhancing the overall healing process.

Stem cell injection therapy refers to a medical procedure in which stem cells are harvested from live, healthy birth tissue and then injected into a localized area on a patient’s body, typically to promote tissue repair, and regeneration, or to treat various medical conditions. Stem cells are unique because they can develop into different types of cells in the body, and they also have the capacity for self-renewal. This makes them valuable in medical treatments, as they can potentially replace or repair damaged or diseased tissues. Stem cell injection therapy can treat arthritic joints, sports injuries, tendinopathies, non-union fractures, meniscal tears, Degenerative Disc Disease, and Osteonecrosis or Avascular Necrosis. 

Prolozone therapy is a mixture of ozone gas and a prolotherapy solution is injected into the affected area, often around joints, ligaments, or tendons. The theory is that this combination not only irritates and strengthens the tissues (like prolotherapy) but also delivers the potential therapeutic benefits of ozone, such as improved circulation and tissue oxygenation. Prolozone combines procaine, dextrose, B vitamins, saline, oxygen, and ozone into a damaged joint and the combination allows for regrowth of damaged tissue.

Nerve hydrodissection involves the use of ultrasound-guided injections of an aqueous regenerative solution such as peptides to flush space around an entrapped nerve.

Peptide Therapy can be introduced as an at-home treatment, and in-office for joint injection and nerve hydrodissection purposes. Peptide therapy introduces peptides to signal communication with our cells to perform a specific response. Administrating peptides elicits a response to regulate or improve physiological functions. For regenerative medicine, peptides for wound recovery, and tissue repair, reduce inflammation, accelerate recovery time, and promote cell migration and differentiation. 

Medical acupuncture uses needles to stimulate nerve activity, initiate muscle firing and induce the release of chemical substances such as neurotransmitters, endorphins, and hormones. This helps to reduce pain and boost your body’s natural healing ability.

PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) therapy is a non-invasive treatment that uses electromagnetic fields to stimulate cellular repair and improve circulation. It is commonly used to reduce pain, inflammation, and promote healing in conditions like arthritis, injuries, and chronic pain.

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Many people suffer with undiagnosed or misdiagnosed conditions and simply don’t know what’s wrong with them or what will help.  We understand what it’s like to feel trapped in a body that is not working for you! At Meeting Point Health, we find the root cause and use a proven, integrative approach that gets results.  As highly trained pioneers in functional and regenerative medicine, we’ve helped thousands of patients take control of their health.

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While some patients experience immediate relief, most patients begin to notice improvements within 2-6 weeks after regenerative treatments like PRP or ozone therapy, with ongoing benefits as the body continues to heal over several months.

Meeting Point Health is one of Philadelphia’s premier functional and regenerative medicine clinics, specializing in a personalized, holistic approach. We focus on identifying and treating the root causes of your discomfort.

Yes, these therapies are safe and minimally invasive. 

Meeting Point Health is a leading functional and regenerative medicine clinic in Philadelphia, offering cutting-edge, surgical alternative solutions. Our holistic approach combines advanced regenerative therapies with comprehensive care, emphasizing natural healing, personalized treatments, and patient education to empower you on your health journey.

Meeting Point Health does not accept insurance.

Our practitioners and staff fully understand and empathize with the challenges that patients face as they make financial decisions for proper health care. Our practice is very different from a conventional medical practice in many ways, but the time spent with each patient is usually 30-90 minutes. Visits with a physician covered by insurance generally allow for less than 10 minutes in total! Conventional medical practices that take insurance maintain brief office visits and high patient loads for this reason. We cannot provide the expert care that every one of our patients deserves under those circumstances.

Insurance also dictates the types of treatments and order of treatments patients can receive for a particular condition.

Opting out of insurance allows the patient and the doctor to maintain their medical autonomy, which is imperative to ensure you get the right treatment at the right time and the right dose.

Good news! If you have out-of-network insurance benefits, you can submit your receipts for potential reimbursement. Depending on your plan, you may receive a percentage of the cost of your visit back either as a reimbursement check in the mail from the insurance company (or an equivalent amount applied to your out-of-network deductible, if applicable). Some plans reimburse up to 80%! All you have to do is ask the front desk for an insurance receipt after your visit.

To start your journey to relief, schedule a consultation with our team. During your initial visit, we’ll assess your medical history, perform a thorough evaluation, and develop a customized treatment plan to address your specific needs. Click to schedule a free discovery call with one of our Patient Onboarding Specialists today!

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