James S. Gaynor, DVM, MS, DACVA, DAAPM

Clients tend to come into our exam rooms with many different ideas on how to treat their pet's arthritis, both the pain and as a disease.

For many years, chronic pain in dogs and cats was either tolerated as a necessary evil, or was considered a reason for euthanasia to relieve the pet from unnecessary suffering.

The concept of using stem cell therapy as a form of regenerative medicine was born out of a lack of satisfactory therapy for degenerative diseases, such as osteoarthritis.