What do horses and tornados have in common?

The sound of sirens, the darkness of the skies, the uncontrollable wind … all are the telltale signs of one of mother nature’s most devastating natural disasters. They show up in an instant and can cause wide spread destruction indiscriminately across towns, families and individual lives.  Tornados can wipe a house from its foundation in moments and leave nothing but wreckage and waste behind.

While injuries in animals and tornados share practically nothing in common, there are some similarities that allow us, in layman terms to explain how AniCell’s amnion-based products work. When your horse or dog get injured, the choice of treatments will gauge how long it takes to get back to work.

Much like when a house is ripped from its foundation or a barn leveled, an injury to a tendon or ligament is very similar. All of the parts of the tissue that are injured are scattered around and left structurally damaged or weakened. Once the trauma is over the pain starts and we emerge from our cellar to assess the damage. The body responds by initiating hemostasis (blood clotting) within minutes and begins the process of inflammation.

Inflammation is the way that the body makes its call out for help to make the pain stop and repair the injury. Here in lies the challenge. Typically, volunteers who can get to the damaged area lack the skills needed to help rebuild and the ones that are needed can’t get there because of the remoteness of the location. You know, the old duct tape and bailing wire analogy.

The body works in a very similar way.  In conformationally compromised areas like certain parts of the legs and joints, the body lacks the blood flow to these areas to get the necessary “material” there to repair the damaged tissue.  Similar to your volunteers, the inflammation recruits what it can get and starts to rebuild with that, even though it may not be structurally sound or cosmetically appealing.  Hence, we get proud flesh and scar tissue as a result.

In an effort to help this process and rebuild properly after a tornado, we reach out to a building contractor whose skilled team rebuilds the home to its original specification.

Until now, we have done the very same thing in treating damaged ligaments and tendons. We have treated the injury with bone marrow or adipose stem cells sending in the construction team to rebuild the tissue. The issue here is that we are simply sending more home builders, project managers, and some bricks to rebuild the tissue but are not providing the material needed to rebuild the extra cellular matrix (ECM), which are the components damaged in any injury. ECM is the mortar that holds cells together to create connective tissue.  Using AniCell’s products is like air dropping not only the construction team, but a container full of these basic components needed to rebuild the house.

AniCell’s equine and canine product lines go far beyond other regenerative therapies. Derived from amniotic material, it is rich in collagen, hyaluronic acid, growth factors, cytokines, laminin, lipids, proteoglycans and other carbohydrates. The largest growth spurt in any mammal’s life occurs within the amnion. AniCell’s products come with all of the foundational “mortar” needed to connect those bricks together and rebuild that tissue to its genetic specification.

If you have the talent, the tools and the materials, you can rebuild the home that is both cosmetically pleasing and structurally sound. AniCell’s products are all naturally anti-inflammatory because all of the products are present to rebuild the tissue there by reducing the need for signaling. They are naturally anti-microbial, which significantly reduces the need for antibiotics. Finally, they have anti-fibrotic properties which decreases proud flesh and scar tissue. Again, scar tissue cannot be created when all the basic building block of structurally sound tissue are present.

Our products are pretty straight forward. Doesn’t it just seem logical? If you are recycling this material that created the miracle of life and using it for what it was genetically designed to do, your animal’s injury is more likely to heal in a natural, more effective way.