{"id":176110,"date":"2023-11-15T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-patch-uses-natural-body-motion-to-fix-disk-herniation"},"modified":"2023-11-15T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:26:01","slug":"new-patch-uses-natural-body-motion-to-fix-disk-herniation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-patch-uses-natural-body-motion-to-fix-disk-herniation","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018patch\u2019 uses natural body motion to fix disk herniation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-patch-uses-natural-body-motion-to-fix-disk-herniation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new biologic \u201cpatch\u201d that is activated by a person\u2019s natural motion could be the key to fixing herniated disks in people\u2019s backs, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the CMC VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC).<\/p>\n<p>Combining years of work from many different projects, the \u201ctension-activated repair patches\u201d (TARPs) provide controlled release of an anti-inflammatory molecule called anakinra from microcapsules over time, which helped disks in a large animal model regain the tension they need to reverse herniation and prevent further degeneration. This pre-clinical research is detailed in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.adf1690\">published<\/a> in Science Translational Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently there is no <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/curative+treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">curative treatment<\/a> for disk herniation, and the best thing out there is just like sticking a plain rubber plug into a hole in a tire. It will stay for a while but it won\u2019t make a great seal,\u201d said co-senior author Robert Mauck, Ph.D., a professor in Orthopaedic Surgery and director of the McKay Laboratory for Orthopaedic Surgery Research at Penn and research career scientist and co-director of the Translational Musculoskeletal Research Center at the CMCVAMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new biologic \u201cpatch\u201d that is activated by a person\u2019s natural motion could be the key to fixing herniated disks in people\u2019s backs, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the CMC VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC). Combining years of work from many different projects, the \u201ctension-activated repair [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}