Degenerative Disc Disease Treatment in Istanbul

The quote is built level by level rather than sold as a package: the imaging review, the number of discs treated, fluoroscopic guidance, sedation, any diagnostic block performed first and the monitoring afterwards each appear on their own line. Our patient coordination team sends it in writing, including what applies to the cost if a block does not confirm the level, before you book flights.

Restoring the height of a collapsed disc is not what this research describes, and our medical team will not tell you otherwise. The target is the environment inside and around the disc, particularly the inflammatory signalling that irritates the nerve endings in its outer ring. The goals we write down are about sitting, driving, sleeping and what you can do through a working day, measured with the same scores before treatment and at review.

They answer different questions. A fusion is an operation for instability, slippage or nerve compression that has stopped responding to anything else, and it has decades of surgical experience behind it. An intradiscal plan is directed at the environment inside a disc that is still doing its job badly rather than not at all. Where your imaging and your neurological examination point to surgery, our medical team points you to a spinal surgeon.

Your plan sets it out before you book: the assessment, the procedure day, the observation afterwards, the restrictions on lifting, sitting and flying for the following days, and when our team is comfortable with you travelling. An intradiscal procedure is planned with more caution than a joint injection, so the stay is built around the recovery rather than around the flights.

Yes. Our regenerative medicine program works with mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) grown from Wharton's jelly, the gelatinous tissue inside the umbilical cord. It is donated after a healthy birth with written maternal consent, from tissue that would otherwise be discarded, so nothing is taken from mother or baby and none of the ethical questions attached to embryonic sources arise. Because these cells expand readily in culture, a batch is characterised and release-tested before it reaches anyone. Your written plan names the material, how it is prepared, the dose, the route of administration and the schedule, and our medical team explains why each of those was chosen for your case.

Wharton's jelly is a young, perinatal tissue rather than an adult one, so the starting material does not carry the age or the health history of the person being treated, and nothing has to be harvested from you on the day. These cells also have a low-immunogenicity profile, which is why this source is studied for use between unrelated people. Most of all, they are strong secretors: the signalling molecules MSCs release are the mechanism most current research centres on, and that is what a plan is built around.

The length of stay follows your plan: the route of administration, the number of sessions, the monitoring after each one, and any mobility or assistance you need. Our patient coordination team confirms appointment dates, daily timings and the expected length of the visit in writing before you book flights.

No medical procedure is free of risk. Our medical team screens for infection, bleeding risk, medication interactions and other contraindications before treatment, explains the risks specific to the route used in your plan, and monitors you during administration and afterwards. If something makes treatment unsafe for you, we say so instead of proceeding.

Goals are set with you and described as aims, not results. Regenerative medicine treatments are planned individually, responses vary between patients and no clinical outcome can be guaranteed. Your plan states what will be measured, when it will be reviewed, and how treatment sits alongside the care you already receive.

Send your confirmed diagnosis, recent reports and imaging, your current medication list, previous procedures and the goals that matter to you. Our medical team reviews them remotely and comes back with an assessment of whether treatment in Istanbul is appropriate for your case, and what the next step would be.