The substance, a growth factor called osteogenic protein 1 or OP-1, which can help regenerate or repair damaged discs, is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for investigational and humanitarian use.
The research is a strategy to help repair an injured disc, and therefore it makes sense to help repair injured tissue and help it regenerate rather than doing something else like heating it up, deadening the nerve endings in it.Not all pain is as debilitating, and for many, pain is temporary. It's not always easy to tell initially which it will be.
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