🌿 Cellular Wharton’s Jelly Therapy

Advanced Stem Cell Healing from Umbilical Cord Tissue

What Is Wharton’s Jelly?

Wharton’s Jelly is a gel-like substance found in the umbilical cord that surrounds the blood vessels. It is rich in mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), growth factors, cytokines, and natural healing proteins. These components make Wharton’s Jelly an exceptional source for regenerative medicine¹.

Because it comes from donated umbilical cords after healthy births, it is young, potent, and ethically sourced with full FDA oversight of the tissue bank process.

Why It’s So Effective

Compared to stem cells taken from an adult’s own body (like fat or bone marrow), Wharton’s Jelly-derived MSCs are more youthful, more active, and exist in higher numbers. This is especially important for older patients whose natural stem cell activity has declined over time².

Wharton’s Jelly cells can:

  • Reduce chronic inflammation
  • Stimulate tissue regeneration
  • Promote repair of cartilage, tendons, and bone
  • Help calm autoimmune responses

These cells do not carry a genetic identity, which makes them extremely tolerable and safe, with little to no risk of rejection or reaction³.

Conditions Treated with Cellular Wharton’s Jelly

At Johnson Medical Center, we use this therapy to support healing for:

  • Moderate to advanced arthritis
  • Chronic joint pain (knees, hips, shoulders, spine)
  • Degenerative disc disease
  • Tendon injuries
  • Sports injuries
  • Slow-healing tissue damage

We most often recommend this treatment for patients age 50 and older, whose stem cell vitality and population have naturally declined.

How the Procedure Works

  1. Evaluation: We assess your condition and determine whether Wharton’s Jelly stem cells are a good fit for your needs.
  2. Injection: The treatment is performed in-office, with stem cells precisely injected into the problem area using ultrasound guidance.
  3. Recovery: There is little to no downtime. Over the next several weeks, the cells begin reducing inflammation and supporting healing.

Safety and Ethics

The umbilical cord tissue is collected from consented, full-term healthy births and processed in FDA-registered, cGMP-compliant laboratories. No embryonic material is used. The donors are screened and tested, and every step is in accordance with American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) standards⁴.

A Powerful Option for Regeneration

For many of our patients Cellular Wharton’s Jelly provides a potent, non-surgical path to relief and recovery. It offers the best of regenerative medicine without the need to harvest tissue from your own body.

🔗 Sources
  1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7926429/
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164302/
  3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497645/
  4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7271833/