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Treating Pain with PRP and Stem Cell Therapy

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Experiencing a few pain-free moments can be euphoric; it makes you realize how long you’ve been living with aches and pain. You might wonder how you can find a solution to relieve the pain and regain your freedom from discomfort.

Dr. Ronak Patel at Regenerative Spine and Pain Institute wants you to know there are two new revolutionary answers to pain relief.

Both platelet-rich therapy — otherwise known as PRP — and stem cell therapy give patients new hope by using the body’s powerful healing power to accelerate the battle against pain. Dr. Patel has seen incredible success implementing these cuttingedge treatments on hundreds of patients suffering from pain-related issues.

So if you are suffering from any of the ailments below, there’s a lifeline.

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Here’s the best news: Neither PRP or stem cell therapy involves drug use with side effects or any surgical procedures.

Both PRP and stem cell treatments use the body’s own healing resources to repair diseased or damaged tissue — and the results are quite remarkable.

PRP therapy involves injecting concentrated platelets and growth factors into damaged tissue to stimulate the faster growth of new healthy cells. Platelets are cells that prevent and stop bleeding. If a blood vessel is damaged, the body sends signals to our platelets to get on the job and start the healing. Some call platelets the body’s natural bandage.

So how does PRP therapy work? It’s basically drawing a one small vial of blood from the patient and then using a centrifuge to turn it into a potent and concentrated form of platelets. It is then injected back into the patient. Think of it as a boost of your own blood — only superpowered.

Recovery time for PRP therapy is far shorter than for surgery. Patients usually experience soreness for a week or so, but the gradual improvement soon begins. Unlike a steroid shot, which gives you immediate relief and quickly wears off, a PRP patient will see pain symptoms improve over a period of months, and up to 80 percent of patients will see relief for up to two years.

Stem cell therapy can be an even more powerful way to harness the body’s healing power. Stem cells are the building blocks for every cell in our body. These powerful cells can be harvested to produce powerful new cells to fight inflammation and disease.

For those suffering from osteoarthritis, stem cell therapy has proven very effective. That’s because the stem cells may help develop new cartilage cells and suppress inflammation. Stem cells can be harvested through a sample of body fat or bone marrow or be harvested from donated umbilical cord tissue.

And yes, you can even augment PRP therapy with stem cell therapy for an even bigger boost!

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Knowlton, a graduate of Hopewell Valley Central High School, lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a producer for CBS News. But when the script he co-wrote with Harding called for a suburban location in which to film the story, he immediately thought of his hometown.

“My family still lives down there,” Knowlton, 45, said in a recent phone interview. “My dad (David) still lives on South Main Street with my stepmom (Diane Zompa). My mom (Carol) still lives in Brandon Farms. One day when I was down there, I happened to notice that there was a vacant space in Pennington Shopping Center. I reached out to the people at the realty group and they said, ‘We’re not using the space, so as long as you leave it the way you found it, you can use it.’”

The principal roles in the film went to professional actors from New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. But for extras, including some of the first responders depicted in the film, Knowlton and Harding turned to Hopewell Valley locals.

“I went to high school with the chief of police. My dad was a volunteer firefighter in Pennington. So I knew I would have connections I needed. Being able to use those guys was so great, especially the firefighters. They didn’t care how many times I asked them to run with a ladder or do whatever. That really helped me out, being so willing to do all of it,” he said.

Knowlton describes “Pressed” as a story about a reporter who arrives at the crime scene of a double homicide and realizes she wants to be a different kind of journalist than the one she has been. “While it’s important to tell people’s stories, there’s a way to do it without monopolizing people’s emotions, without profiting off of someone’s terrible situation, which is how a lot of people think the news is,” he said.

Knowlton studied journalism at Rutgers University after graduating from Central. Although he has had a long and Emmy-winning career as a TV producer, his dream has always been to make films.

“My brother (Craig) is actually the one who went to film school,” he said. “He went to Tisch (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts), and my experience on film sets was mostly on his stuff. I was an assistant director helping him on his projects. He encouraged me to keep it up because he liked doing it and he knew I liked doing it.”

And the “Silent K” nickname that Knowlton now uses professionally? Bestowed by Will Ferrell, believe it or not, during the time when Knowlton worked as an entertainment reporter.

“I interviewed him for the movie Elf,”

Knowlton said. “When you sit down in those junkets, the actors ask ‘What’s your name?’ And I always had to spell my name out for them. He said, “Where’s the K?’ I said, ‘It’s right at the beginning.’ And he said, ‘Wow. Your rap nickname should be Silent K.’

“Now I have Silent K Studios, the license plate on my jeep is Silent K. It just kind of stuck.”

In 2017, Knowlton was working at a news job that he describes as toxic, and in a personal relationship that he says was “not exactly a healthy one.”

So he got out of the relationship, packed up his apartment, quit his job, and drove around the country for a fourmonth solo trip to visit a national landmark in each of the lower 48 states. “A Jack Kerouac kind of sojourn,” he said.

The trip almost ended in tragedy in the Grand Canyon. One night while there he ended up stranded in the canyon without any overnight gear. “That was a rough night,” he said. “Basically yelling for help in the darkness for 45 minutes.”

Fortunately for Knowlton, there were some German tourists within earshot who climbed down to him and fixed him up with some sustenance and an all-temperature sleeping bag. “They were the nicest guys,” he said. “They literally just did the trip down to me in the dark to help me out. I wasn’t sure I would make it through the night — the temperature dropped so much. About a month later, a woman died in just about the same place I was in.”

After returning to New York, he settled into a job with CBS News that was a better fit. But the survival experience helped to remind him that the clock was ticking if he ever wanted to have a career as a filmmaker. He made a promise to himself to do more creative writing and to share that writing with more people.

In 2020, he came down with a bad case of Covid, and had to be hospitalized. “I wasn’t on a ventilator, but it was scary moments,” he said. “After two back-toback near-death experiences, I was like, ‘You need to do this stuff if you’re ever going to do it.’”

Not a month after he recovered from Covid, he learned that one of his CBS News colleagues — Harding — was also an independent filmmaker. They met up, and Harding told him about a film she wanted to do about a TV news reporter, but she wasn’t sure how to get the story into script form. “She had the middle, she just really didn’t know the beginning and the end,” Knowlton said.

Knowlton offered to take a crack at writing a script, and 24 hours later he had something to send her. “This is Michelle’s story. She experienced these things while being a photojournalist for the news in South Carolina which is why she wanted to tell this story. I understood right away because I, too, have been in the field and seen these things happen,” he said. “Once she read the draft I did, she said, ‘You get the story. I want to make this movie, and I want to make it with you.’”

They shot the film over Easter weekend 2022. “Over the course of Friday and Saturday, a lot of shooting. Twelve hour days, but we didn’t have an opportunity to do it any other weekend,” Knowlton said. “One of the retired firefighters let us use their farm for a second crime scene. It meant a lot that the whole town, every person we talked to was like, ‘How can we help you?’ It was really a great thing.”

Once shooting was finished, it took Harding from April until Thanksgiving to make a final, eight-minute cut of the film. In the end, the pair made the movie for the relatively paltry cost of

$10,000. “When people see it, one of the first things they say is how professional it looks,” Knowlton said. “Michelle’s film school professor said, ‘I can’t believe how good this looks based on the budget.’”

They started submitting the movie to film festivals across the world once it was completed. Immediately they heard back from the Alternative Film Festival of Canada, where it won Best Drama for North America. But that festival only screened 10 films in total, meaning “Pressed” did not have its world premiere there.

Next, they found out that they had been accepted into the Cannes Shorts film festival, where they were nominated for Best Drama. But there again, there was no opportunity for a screening.

It wasn’t long before the Top Indie Film Awards checked in with four nominations and two awards, for Best Writing and Best Message. And finally came word came from Wolf Tree that the film had been accepted to screen in Michigan on Jan. 21. Knowlton was on hand for the premiere.

“I just needed that moment to break through in my psyche, that this is something I could do,” Knowlton said. “I give such kudos to Michelle, because she’s known that she wanted to do this for a while, and this is her fourth movie. But for me to get this response from the film festivals is satisfying and reaffirming. What it’s done for me is made me more vocal about the stories I want to tell.”

Since completing “Pressed,” Knowlton has written a draft of a feature-length film script, and is already in preproduction on another short film he wants to shoot first.

“Once people heard that I got nominated for Cannes Shorts and heard that we won best drama at the Alternative Film Festival, that opened a lot of doors,” he said. “People are taking it seriously that this is what I want to do.” champion is ratified by the World Chess Federation, also known by its French acronym, FIDE. Edwards, on the other hand, is recognized as a world champion and grandmaster by the International Correspondence Chess Federation, or ICCF, the body that oversees the worldwide community of correspondence chess players. He is the 14th American to gain grandmaster status, which he reached upon winning the tournament, and the 3rd to win the world championship.

Edwards is also part of the U.S. team taking part in the ICCF’s 21st Correspondence Chess Olympiad, with the Americans locked in for a medal in the event. “I think that I’m the first Olympic champion in the history of Hopewell Valley. That’s not bad for a 69-year-old fat and bald guy,” he jokes. “I’m proud of that.”

Once played via letters, and later, telegrams and postcards, correspondence chess today is carried out mostly via email. Competitors play games out with unseen opponents over vast distances and, often, over vast periods of time. The 32nd World Correspondence Chess Championship commenced in June 2020, and did not end until Oct. 8, 2022.

Edwards played 17 matches in that time, against competitors from Germany, Russia, Tunisia, Portugal and elsewhere. He won just two of the games, but that is not unusual today in top-level correspondence chess; no player in the tournament won more. He played to a draw in the other 15 matches, and was named champion on tiebreaker rules over the other two-game winners: Michel Lecroq of France, Sergey Adolfovich Osipov of Russia, and Horácio Neto of Portugal.

Games end in draws so often these days because for the last two decades, the ICCF has permitted players to use almost any resource available to them to determine their next move, including powerful computer chess engines capable of analyzing millions of potential moves and sequences. Really the only resource competitors may not draw on is other people.

“Correspondence chess combines not only extreme knowledge of chess, but also mastery of technology,” Edwards says. “You were not allowed to use chess engines back in the day. Then they started being allowed around 2000, 2001. At the time, they didn’t feel they had a way to police (computer consultation). They do have a way to do it today, but they don’t. You’re not allowed to consult with a human. You are allowed to use books, computers and computer databases, and since it’s legal, it’s what happens.”

Edwards said that in winning the championship, he sometimes spent as many as 10 days deciding on a move. “It’s a very patient process. For example, in the final, I had a game that went 119 moves, against Osipov. I had a stretch with the sole objective of making him move one pawn forward one square. I succeeded, but it took 38 moves to get him to do that,” he says. “The key was that if I could get him to move it forward one more square, I had a winning plan.”

Edwards grew up on Long Island until the age of 12. He remembers getting the first of his 5,000 chess books, Reuben Fine’s Great Moments in Modern Chess, when he was laid low by mono in 4th grade. His first teacher was his uncle, Joseph Platz, himself a master and a onetime student of world champion Emanuel Lasker.

When he was 12, Edwards moved with his family to Acton, Massachusetts, outside of Boston. He went on to attend Princeton University from 1971 to 1975, earning a bachelor’s degree, before going onto Michigan State University, where he earned masters and doctorate degrees in Ethiopian Economic History. Later, he and wife Cheryl settled in Hopewell, and he served two terms on the township committee in the late 90’s–early 2000’s, including one year as mayor.

He worked for 24 years for Princeton University, first as an assistant vice president in computing and information technology, and later as coordinator of institutional communication. He started playing correspondence chess in 1986, because he was married and had a family and that made it easier to fit it all in. He still has all of the postcards he received from fellow players announcing their moves.

After retiring in 2010, he made the commitment to himself to try to become world champion. It was not a commitment he made lightly. “Twelve years of 14-hour days,” he says. “I have not had a drop of alcohol in a decade. It would make my decision making unreliable.”

He believes that his background in computers gives him an advantage over other competitors, especially when it comes to consulting resources like ChessBase to find historical games that are similar to whatever game he is playing at the time. His huge library of chess books is another resource he can rely on.

“Using the tools that I have, I’m able to search for every single game that reaches a position that is similar to the one I have on the board,” he says. “In most instances, I’m able to find two, three, four hundred games. There’s no point in running away from the data. So, I play through all of them. After I’ve done that, I know what to do.”

At the outset of the championship finals, he decided to take an approach that was in the style of Armenian chess legend and former world champion Tigran Petrosian. Petrosian is often described as a defense-minded player, but Edwards doesn’t like that. He describes the playing style as pythonlike — working to get his pieces into positions that could squeeze opponents into submission.

“This was an astounding challenge. The games are very, very clean. I went through the entire tournament (after it was over), and I’m not being immodest when I say that I did not make a mistake. I drew every game with black — that was part of the plan. And I settled on an approach with the white pieces that worked.”

As the 32nd edition’s champion, Edwards is entitled to take part in the 33rd or the 34th world finals. But the 33rd edition began just two days after he won the 32nd — and Edwards will not be defending his title. “I will tell you that I needed a break,” he says. “One look at my wife’s face convinced me to take a few years off.”

He can still opt to take part in the 34th edition, or enter any future championship as a candidate and earn his way to the finals. In the meantime, he looks forward to doing some of the things he has missed out on in recent times, including traveling. He and Cheryl have plans to go to Amsterdam to receive the engraved silver platter he won as world champion,

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Edwards has written 44 books on chess, including The Chess Analyst, and is also a contributor to American Chess Magazine, where he has written about chess technology. He says his publisher has asked him to write a book detailing his world championship victory, for which his working title is World Champion on the First Attempt.

He is also an teacher of chess, having worked with many people over the years, in person and online. Edwards offers private lessons for kids and adults, whether they are just getting started or have taken part in some tournaments and want to get to the next level. He also teaches chess each week as part of the programming at West Windsorbased Hub For Learning, whose motto is “evolve beyond normal abilities.”

One thing that Edwards has not done, but says he would love to cross off of his bucket list, is to serve as the chess coach of the New York Giants. Chess is booming in popularity right now, whether because of the recent pandemic, because of the popular TV show The Queen’s Gambit, or because of the magnetic personality of world champ Carlsen, and many professional athletes have been bitten by the bug.

“It turns out (linebacker Kayvon) Thibodeaux is an avid chess player,” Edwards says. “All of the relievers on the Boston Red Sox are avid chess players. Becoming a chess coach to these guys would be a dream come true.”

Edwards may not know whether that dream will ever be realized, but one thing he does know is that from now on, he will always be known as a grandmaster and world champion.

“They can’t take the titles away,” he says. “I’m a world champion forever. And that’s pretty neat. They say that over-theboard champions tend to peak in their late 20s or early 30s, but correspondence chess players usually peak in their late 60s. So I’m just peaking now.”

To learn more about chess lessons with Jon Edwards, email hubforlearning@ gmail.com.

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