Foundation Founder Dedicated To Adult Stem Cell Therapy For Reducing Chronic Pain And Dependence On Painkillers

Online, August 2, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Regenerative Spine and Joint Foundation (RSJF) Chief Science Officer and Founder Dr. Hardesh Garg, M.D. has seen first-hand the dramatic results adult stem cell therapy.

Dr. Garg, Medical Director for Comfort Care Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., founded RSJF for the advocacy, education, and awareness of the manipulation of adult stem cells for the management of chronic pain from orthopedic conditions to decrease the prescription drug overdose epidemic.

"The death toll from overdoses of prescription painkillers has more than tripled in the past decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," said Dr. Garg. "Overdoses involving prescription painkillers are at epidemic levels and kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined, with more than 40 people dying every day from overdoses involving narcotic pain relievers."

As a clinician, researcher, teacher, scientist and writer, Dr. Garg has been practicing medicine for more than 20 years. For the past several years he has pioneered the safe and effective combination of adult stem cells and Platelet-Rich Plasma to relieve the agony and improve disability from orthopedic conditions of spine, joints, ligaments and tendon pain.

Dr. Garg is one of the few physicians in the United States trained in the specialized field of regenerative medicine to alleviate chronic pain including neck and back, knee, arthritis and sports injuries.

He has served as clinical assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Florida School of Medicine, a physician at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center and has worked as a courtesy clinical assistant professor at the University of South Florida School of Medicine. He has served as sub-investigator in a National Institute of Health-funded research study seeking genetic information on obesity.

For more information call (904) 997-6100 or visit www.rsjf.org. or www.ComfortCarePM.com