Given a chance, most patients would not opt for a painful surgery or take high dosage of medicines causing side effects. What if, there was a procedure where one’s own blood could develop enough proteins to fight pain? This option is now available for Osteoarthiritis patients for the first time in India, through a German therapy called Orthokine Therapy.

Chennai is the first city in the country where the therapy kit will be made available. The therapy is already widely popular in 35 countries and is being endorsed by the city’s well-known consultant orthopedic surgeon Madan Mohan Reddy. “Orthokine therapy consists of obtaining ‘antiarthritis proteins’ and growth factors from the patient’s own blood and then injecting these endogenous substances back into the affected joint,” Reddy said..............Read more

Source: The New Indian Express