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CDI USES REGENERATIVE MEDICINE to Enhance the Body's Intrinsic Healing Capacity BY THOMAS CROCKER HARNESSING THE BODY'S OWN HE ALING BIOMATERIALS ¡ KNOWN A S REGENER ATIVE THER APY ¡ IS A SAFE, EFFECTIVE ADJUNCT TO CONVENTIONAL TRE ATMENTS FOR MUSCULOSKELE TAL PAIN REL ATED TO INJURY OR DEGENER ATION. N O N S T E R O I D A L A N T I • I N F L A M • M ATORY DRUGS a nd opiates — t wo t r a d i t i on a l op t i on s for m a n a g i n g chronic pain — share a key feature: They prov ide sy mptom relief rat her t ha n add ressi ng t he cause. R egenerative medicine used at Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) ta kes treatment one step further. Instead of providing temporary relief by ma sking pa in or mitigating inf lammation, as conventiona l medica l t herapies do, regenerative medicine confers longer-lasting symptom relief because it prompts t he body to hea l d a m a ged mu scu loskelet a l a nd spi- na l structures. " The goa l of regenerative medicine is to restore the hea lth a nd function of tissues using the body 's natura l hea ling a nd repa ir mecha nisms, not to apply a Ba nd-A id to pa in a nd inf la mmation," 0 6C O V E R F E A T U R E

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