How Advanced Regenerative Medicine Supports Natural Healing

When traditional conservative care fails, many patients assume their only remaining option is invasive surgery or a lifetime of daily pain medication. It isn’t.

Before you consider foot surgery, you need to know about the next evolution in podiatric care. At Edmond Norman Foot & Ankle, Dr. Buksh uses Advanced Regenerative Medicine to help the body repair and restore damaged tissue naturally. Read on to learn how biologic tissue therapy is changing the way we treat chronic foot and ankle conditions.

What is Biologic Regenerative Therapy?

When tissue is injured or chronically inflamed for months, your body’s internal healing signals often become weak or completely disrupted—the healing process stalls.

To restart that process, we use an advanced biologic tissue derived from donated human umbilical cords (obtained from healthy births and processed in specialized, highly regulated laboratories). This natural biologic tissue is incredibly rich in:

• Growth Factors
• Anti-inflammatory Proteins
• Signaling Molecules
  • When introduced to an injured area, these components communicate with your body’s own cells. 
  • They help reduce the inflammatory chemicals causing your pain and stimulate local repair cells (fibroblasts) to support new collagen production and tissue remodeling.

4 Conditions We Treat with Regenerative Medicine

Because this therapy is designed to support the microenvironment of damaged tissue, it is highly effective for patients who have “failed” traditional therapies.

1. Peripheral Neuropathy (Nerve Pain)

• The Problem: Nerve damage often causes burning, tingling, or numbness in the feet. Many patients believe nerve pain is permanent and only treatable with heavy oral medications.
• The Regenerative Approach: Biologic therapy reduces the inflammatory chemicals irritating the nerves, improving the surrounding tissue environment to support optimal nerve signaling and healing.

2. Plantar Fasciitis (Chronic Heel Pain)

• The Problem: Long-standing heel pain is rarely just “inflammation.” It is often a degeneration of the fascia tissue itself.
• The Regenerative Approach: The treatment aims to stimulate new collagen formation, helping your body repair the structural micro-tears in the degenerated arch ligament.

3. Achilles Tendonitis

• The Problem: The Achilles tendon has a notoriously poor blood supply, which makes natural healing painfully slow.
• The Regenerative Approach: Instead of surgically repairing the tendon, biologic injections stimulate tendon repair cells and increase collagen organization to support a stronger, healthier tendon environment.

4. Morton’s Neuroma

• The Problem: A sharp, burning pain between your toes caused by irritated, swollen nerve tissue.
• The Regenerative Approach: Biologic therapy calms the localized nerve inflammation, reducing the irritation without the need to remove the nerve surgically.

What to Expect: A Minimally Invasive Solution

The most significant advantage of advanced regenerative medicine is the convenience and safety it offers our patients.

• In-Office Procedure: There is no hospital stay. The entire process takes about 20 to 30 minutes right here in our Edmond or Norman clinic.
• Ultrasound Guidance: Dr. Buksh often uses real-time ultrasound imaging to deliver the biologic tissue to the exact millimeter of the damaged tissue.
• No Major Downtime: While you may experience mild soreness for a few days, there are no surgical incisions, no casts, and no prolonged months off your feet. Healing occurs gradually over the following weeks as your body actively repairs the tissue.

Find Out If You Are a Candidate

You do not have to accept chronic pain as your “new normal.” If you have been struggling with foot or ankle pain for longer than six months, your body might need the right signals to finish the healing process.

Bill Buksh, DPM, works alongside his expert medical staff at Edmond Norman Foot & Ankle to offer superior podiatric care to anyone in need. Pairing thorough, comprehensive remedies for common podiatric conditions with unique specialty treatments for nerve pain, he and his team would be delighted to treat your feet. Contact us to schedule your appointment today.