The AIM Blog: Medicine Reimagined

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Cortisone Shot vs. Regenerative Therapy for Lasting Shoulder Relief

Dealing with shoulder pain can significantly impact your daily activities and quality of life, making even simple tasks, like reaching for a coffee mug, difficult. While cortisone shots are a common first step for relief, they don't always provide lasting pain relief. So, what are your options if a cortisone shot doesn't work?

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PRP Hair Treatment: What Success Can You Expect?

Hair loss is an incredibly common issue, affecting millions of adults worldwide. If you’re one of the nearly 50% of women or 80% of men experiencing hair loss, PRP hair treatments might be the breakthrough you’ve been looking for.

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Cervical Instability: Comprehensive Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

Cervical instability, a condition characterized by the abnormal movement of the cervical spine, poses significant, far-reaching, and often surprising challenges for those affected. In this guide, we dig into some of the nuances of this complex condition, offering considerations for diagnosis and treatment.

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Sprained Ankle Healing Time: Understanding Different Grades of Sprains

Affecting about 2 million people in the United States each year, ankle sprains are one of the most common musculoskeletal injuries, and many people are left wondering what to expect of their recovery. Depending on the grade of injury, sprained ankle healing time can range anywhere from one week to several months.

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Protecting Your Body from Cold Weather Injuries

Winter is fast-approaching and that means the return of cold weather sports, winter-exclusive activities, and, less exciting, the risk of cold weather injuries. From snowboarding and icy winter jogs to chilly jaunts to the store, cold weather brings its own set of risks—and not just icy fall risks

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Winter’s Grip: Tips to Alleviate Joint Pain in Cold Weather

Do you find yourself bracing for the inevitable discomfort that winter can bring—dreading joint pain in cold weather year after year? The winter months can be harsh on your joints, and while you may not be in a position to remove yourself from the cold entirely, there are steps you can take to reduce your body pain due to cold weather.

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Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Injections for Effectively Treating Hair Loss

Hair loss is an incredibly common issue, affecting millions of adults worldwide. In fact, nearly 50% of women, and up to 80% of caucasian men experience androgenetic alopecia (male or female pattern baldness). While there are numerous treatments available for hair loss, most of them fall short, offering insufficient results, causing undesirable side effects,

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The Science of MSC Stem Cell Therapy for Orthopedics
The Science of MSC Stem Cell Therapy for Orthopedics

Regenerative medicine has emerged as a transformative field in recent years, driven by a pressing need for innovative healthcare solutions that can address the limitations of conventional treatments. Conventional treatments for orthopedic issues often involve medications, which focus solely on managing symptoms, or surgeries that are invasive, costly, and sometimes high-risk. Recognizing these limitations,

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AIM Welcomes Jessica Caspar, APRN

Jessica Caspar joined us in November of 2022 as an Advanced Practice Nurse and Lead Clinician for AIM Aesthetics. Although she joined us just last year, Jessica has already improved the lives of numerous patients, and she continues to strengthen our team with her expertise and positive personality.

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How and When Regenerative Medicine Can Prevent Orthopedic Surgery

For a long time, conventional orthopedic medicine has been too quick to prioritize surgical treatment—often presenting orthopedic surgery as the only option for patients experiencing chronic and injury-related pain. However, advancements in regenerative medicine are proving that this is not the case, as continuously developing treatments offer

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Treating Back Pain: Getting to the Root of Common Misdiagnoses

Back pain is one of the most common medical problems that people experience worldwide. In fact, up to 80% of the population will experience back pain at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, many people who suffer from back pain are also misdiagnosed which makes treating back pain very difficult.

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The Science of P-Shot and Your Special Valentine

Valentine’s Day can be a loaded holiday—the performative pressure of this culturally buzzing season can be a source of mood-killing anxiety for anyone and their partner—but especially for men struggling with erectile dysfunction (ED).

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Atlanta ED Lifestyle: Shockwave Therapy & P-Shot

ED Lifestyle 101: How P-Shot & Shockwave May Help Book Now Meet Our Team Book Now Meet Our Team Having occasional trouble obtaining or keeping an erection is completely normal. However, when the problem occurs repeatedly or is ongoing, it may be a sign of...

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How Prolozone Stimulates Regeneration of Damaged Cartilage

Prolozone therapy is a non-surgical procedure that uses medical oxygen injections to help repair joints, cartilage, ligaments, muscle tendons, and more. It can combat pain while also allowing your body to start healing damaged cartilage through added collagen and nutrients. Collagen can help tighten loose ligaments or damaged connective tissues by reducing inflammation and jump-starting the healing process.

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Can Adipose Stem Cell Therapy Effectively Relieve Knee Pain

According to the CDC, up to 20% of adults experience knee pain. In many cases, that pain is chronic. This means that it persists for over twelve weeks despite medication and medical treatment. Chronic knee pain is strongly associated with osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis can develop from previous injuries, obesity, age, or repetitive stress. While osteoarthritis is common, treatments are limited, mainly focusing on weight loss, self-care, and prescription medication. At Atlanta Innovative Medicine in Atlanta, GA, we provide our patients with all options available to treat chronic knee pain, including groundbreaking treatments like adipose stem cell therapy.

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Effectiveness of Platelet-Rich Plasma for Knee Osteoarthritis

If you are suffering from osteoarthritis (OA), you are not alone. OA is one of the most common forms of arthritis, affecting 23% of the adult population. Those who experience the pain it causes know and understand how difficult it can be to manage. There is presently no cure for OA and it can be challenging to treat. Safe, effective and nonsurgical treatment methods are needed, but most options only temporarily relieve pain

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Four Non Surgical Ways to Avoid a Knee Replacement

Over a million knee replacements are performed annually in the US, with the operation being portrayed as a safe and effective means of eliminating pain and helping individuals return to previous activities. At least that’s what initial studies showed as the operation gained in popularity during the latter part of the twentieth Century.

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The Basics of PRP Therapy

The Basics of PRP Therapy PRP therapy, known as platelet-rich plasma therapy, has been an immensely popular treatment for patients suffering from joint and soft tissue injuries. This immense popularity has increased a lot over the last decade, but PRP itself has been...

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Why Platelet Rich Plasma Works For Soft Tissue Injuries

Using platelet rich plasma (PRP) to recover from a sports injury has become commonplace for elite competitors—for runners, golfers, basketballers, tennis players and beyond. Multiple studies have examined outcomes for the use of PRP in treating these injuries. It’s been shown to promote muscle recovery thanks to the growth factors released from activated platelets—and in doing so, reducing pain, swelling, and the time it takes to return to play sports.

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Top 3 Things To Know About Stem Cell Therapy For Joint Pain

When you’re dealing with chronic pain, you want answers. Fast. For the 31 million Americans dealing with osteoarthritis—the most common cause of disability in adults—or another painful joint condition, stem cell therapies offer an alternative to the side effects of drugs or the risks of surgery.

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Skip The Surgery: Top 4 Knee Pain Therapies

Whether you’re just learning about a knee problem or you think you’ve “tried everything,” you may be relieved to know there are nonsurgical ways of treating knee pain. That includes a world of newer therapies and proven treatments that might be your ticket to getting well and getting active again—without harsh drugs or surgery.

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Is all Platelet-Rich Plasma created equal?

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been around for decades as a healing therapy but has seen explosive growth in the medical field in recent years. That’s due in part to people’s desire for treatments that address the root cause of a health problem rather than mask it with potentially harmful drugs or undergo the possible pitfalls of surgery. But is all PRP created equal by different medical providers? Not by a long shot. Before we delve into the factors that make certain forms and deliveries of PRP better than others, let’s recap some basics about this form of regenerative medicine.

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