At Sedona Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Lanchbury harvests the stem cells he uses in your treatment from your body, which is the best way of getting active stem cells. Despite the decrease in stem cells that happens as you age, you’ve still got two plentiful sources of adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) – your bone marrow and fatty tissues (adipose). MSCs are the cells involved in healing connective tissues, cartilage, spinal discs, and bones. Dr. Lanchbury extracts adipose or bone marrow samples from you and then puts them in a centrifuge, which spins at great speed to separate the stem cells from the other substances. When this separation occurs, Dr. Lanchbury can inject the concentrated dose of stem cells into your injured tissues. He uses ultrasound imaging to precisely guide the stem cell injection, which greatly improves the likelihood of a positive outcome.