What is Stem Cell Therapy?

Stem cell therapy is one of the hottest topics in veterinary medicine. It is the practice of retrieving stem cells (young cells that can develop into any tissue cell i.e. heart, cartilage, muscle, ligament, bone) from an animal’s fat sample and injecting it into the same animal’s injured site. In theory, these stem cells develop into healthy tissue by way of reacting to environmental signals. Anecdotal successes have been reported throughout the world in the treatment of horses and dogs with tendon and ligament injuries and arthritis.