Bone Marrow Concentrate (BMC)

Healthcare providers have been experimenting with using BMAC to help repair and regenerate damaged tissues in your musculoskeletal system — tissues like muscles, bones, cartilage, tendons and ligaments.

If you’ve had a traumatic injury or have a degenerative tissue disease like osteoarthritis, BMAC can help promote healing. It contains the raw cellular materials your body needs to regenerate these tissues.

A healthcare provider can treat your injured tissues with contents extracted from your own bone marrow. After aspirating and concentrating the liquid, they can deliver it to the tissues that need it.

Surgery is one way of doing this. But a simpler way is to inject the liquid into the injured tissues through a hollow needle. A BMAC injection is an outpatient procedure that you can get in your provider’s office.

BMAC contains concentrated doses of stem cells and growth factors, which stimulates tissue growth and repair. Stem cells are cells in their raw form before they specialize to become different types of tissues.

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are the type of stem cells that replenish soft tissues, cartilage and bone. They’re less abundant in bone marrow than other types, so a concentrated dose is more likely to help.

BMAC also promotes healing by reducing inflammation and scarring (fibrosis). Severe or long-lasting inflammation can lead to scarring. While scarring is a type of healing, it’s not the same as regenerating.

Scar tissue is dense, fibrous tissue that may not have the same blood supply, flexibility or functionality as the original tissue. But when tissues regenerate, they replace damaged cells with the same type of cell.