Bone Marrow Concentrate Intradiscal Injection for Chronic Discogenic Low Back Pain

Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic low back pain for more than 6 months w/ low back component greater than leg pain. * Average pain of at lest 40/100 on VAS pre-procedure. * Inadequate response to at least 6 months of conservative care including medication, physical therapy and/or spinal injection * Advanced imaging of MRI or CT demonstrating abnormal disc pathology * Presumed lumbar disc pain based on either positive discogram or patient must have MRi findings of either high intensity zone and/or Type 1 or 2 Modic endplate changes, or exclusion of other sources of pain. * Having provided informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Active moderate to severe lumbar radiculopathy * Negative discogram * Very severe decrease in disc height at planned injection level (disc height of less than 1/3 expected) * Active infection * Moderate to severe anemia, thrombocytopenia or leukopenia * Spinal fracture within the past 6 months * Severe psychological illness * Inability to consent to the procedure due to cognitive issues * Prior surgery at a level considered to be the source of pain * Lumbar surgery within the past 6 months * Women who are pregnant or breast feeding * Prior intradiscal therapeutic injection or procedure * Severe uncontrolled renal, hepatic, hematologic, gastrointestinal, metabolic, endocrine, pulmonary, cardiac or neurological disease or any medical condition which would make the subject unsuitable for this study. * Inflammatory arthritis * Any cancer within the past 5 yea…