Neck and Back Pain

Alternatives for Neck and Back Pain or Injury

Traditional pain management often focuses on numbing inflammation rather than repairing it. Specializing in spinal conditions, Dr. Awanr uses regenerative approaches to activate your body’s natural healing response. By reducing inflammation at the cellular level and supporting tissue regeneration, these advanced spinal injections can restore function, relieve chronic pain, and help prevent the need for surgery or repeated steroid treatments.

With expert precision and image-guidance, these regenerative procedures are designed to help you move, feel, and live better — naturally.

These innovative therapies promote stronger and longer-lasting results, helping patients regain mobility, reduce discomfort, and improve overall quality of life. By focusing on true restoration at the cellular level, stem cell therapies offer a promising alternative to traditional treatments, often with fewer risks and a faster recovery. Utilizing PRP, amniotic fluid, or exosomes for your neck or back condition can give you the relief you need and the life you deserve.

Steroid or Cortisone injections may offer temporary relief, but those injections simply mask the symptoms without healing the root cause. Studies have shown that these traditional injections can cause more damage to tissue and their effects typically last only days to months before needing another.

Many conditions have traditionally been treated with various types of surgery, but the minimally invasive procedures offered at Chicago Stem Cell Therapy could be your best option. All outpatient procedures are performed in our fully equipped Joint Commission Accredited surgical suite. Regardless of the treatment best suited for your condition, you likely have options aside from a surgery that would require a hospital stay, recovery, and rehabilitation.

Neck and back pain are among the most common — and most frustrating — conditions people face. While many clinics rely on cortisone injections or pain medications that only mask symptoms, Dr. Zaki Anwar takes a completely different approach.

As one of the only physicians performing regenerative spinal injections, he uses platelet-rich plasma (PRP), amniotic fluid, or exosomes precisely delivered into the epidural space or facet joints to stimulate real tissue repair. This advanced technique targets the root cause of pain — inflammation, nerve irritation, and structural degeneration — helping patients achieve longer-lasting relief and true recovery, not just temporary comfort

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Patient Reported Outcomes After Stem Cell Therapies

80% improvement in low back and sciatica pain
No longer needs to use a walker
Feeling 100% better
80% improvement in Degenerative Disc Disease constant pain
Reduced the amount of medication taken
95% improved after exosome epidurals
Able to move around and motions are not as limited
No longer needs to stop and rest when doing yardwork
Able to enjoy traveling and being active again

regenerative medicine for spinal conditions

Back and Neck Conditions Treated

From injury to chronic pain, we specialize in the same types of conditions treated in orthopedic or sports medicine — using regenerative techniques that promote lasting recovery. Whether you have a confirmed diagnosis or are still searching for answers, our expert team will evaluate your condition and guide you toward the most effective treatment options.

Arthritis- Spinal arthritis is inflammation of the facet joints in the spine or sacroiliac joints between the spine and the pelvis

Bulging Disc– A condition that occurs when its jelly-like nucleus pushes against its outer ring due to wear and tear or a sudden injury. This pressure against the outer ring may cause lower back pain and is sometimes called a slipped disc, ruptured disc, or herniated disc.

CRPS- The cause of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome can be difficult to find, but it is believed that in CRPS, your body reacts in an abnormal way to an injury and typically presents with persistent long lasting pain

Degenerative Disc Disease– This condition occurs when the cushioning in your spine begins to wear away and is most common in older adults.

Failed Back Surgery- Approximately 10-40% of back surgeries are considered unsuccessful. Even given the best surgeon and conditions, there is a 5% chance that the spine surgery might not produce desired results

Muscle or ligament strain- An injury to the tendons and/or muscles of the lower back, ranging from simple stretching injuries to partial or complete tears in the muscle/tendon combination leading to inflammation and pain

Radiculopathy/ pinched or compressed nerve- This condition occurs when there is excessive pressure on the nerve roots near the vertebrae in your back causing burning, tingling, or numbness into your arms or legs

Sciatica -This condition most often occurs when a herniated disk or an overgrowth of bone puts pressure on part of the sciatic nerve, which travels from the lower back through the hips and buttocks and down each leg.

Scoliosis- A sideways curvature of the spine

Spinal Stenosis – A condition most commonly in the lower back or neck in which the spinal canal becomes narrow, putting pressure on the spinal cord and nerves that travel through the spine.

Spondylolisthesis– A condition caused when the vertebrae, or bones, of the spine slip out of place

Vertebral fractures– Dislocation or fracture of the vertebrae (backbone) and can occur anywhere along the spine. Most spinal fractures are caused from injury or trauma from car accidents, falls, or sports

Whiplash– Occurs when a person's head moves back and forth very suddenly with great force. This injury is most common following an automobile accident

Neck and Back Pain

​​Alternatives for Neck and Back Pain or Injury

Patient Reported Outcomes After Stem Cell Therapies

Back and Neck Conditions Treated

Alternatives for Neck and Back Pain or Injury