A single injection promotes disc Regeneration
Hard to get medical industry to run with these treatments, when the huge money is to be made in ADR and fusion hardware.
CONCLUSION: The results of this study show the feasibility of restoring degenerative rabbit discs by a single injection of OP-1 into the nucleus pulposus. Importantly, the effects of the OP-1 injection on disc height were sustained for up to 24 weeks. The metabolic changes in the cells, following a single injection, might be sustained and, thus, induce long-term changes in disc structure. An efficacy study in large animals is required to show further that the intradiscal injection of OP-1, or bone morphogenetic proteins or growth factors with similar properties would be useful for the structural restoration of the IVD in humans.
Osteogenic protein-1 injection into a degenerated ... [Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2006] - PubMed result