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The Baby Juice Sales Pitch: Amniotic Stem Cell Review
This past week I’ve gotten two requests for an amniotic stem cell review. One came from an orthopedic sales rep I know who used the term, “baby juice” in describing what he saw as a clear trend among orthopedic surgeons. The second request for a review came from my...
Disc Stem Cell Review: The Hype has Begun: Beware!
Looking for a disc stem cell review? The low back disc stem cell bonanza has begun! After about a decade using stem cells in degenerated low back discs, I’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s possible with our existing technology and what’s not. This past week I saw an...
Beware During ACL Surgery Rehab! ACL Surgery Dramatically Impacts the Uninjured Knee!
Our existing ACL surgery rehab methods focus on returning patients to sports by strengthening and treating the operated knee. The rehab goal is to facilitate the two big reasons that patients who tear their ACL ligaments decide to get surgery: to return to sports at...
New Research: Fish Oil Can Turn Bad Inflammation into Healing
Fish oil and the omega 3 fatty acids it contains is cool. We’ve known for a long-tome that high quality, concentrated EPA fish oil reduces inflammation. However, now a new study shows that it also increases the signal to stop inflammation and turn on healing....
What Does Tommy John Surgery Research Show?
Yesterday I was working out on an elliptical and watching the TV in the health club. A feature called ESPN Sports Science was on about Tommy John surgery in major league pitchers and kids. One of the more disturbing things was that the commentators were arguing back...
2014 Stem Cell Registry Data – Knee Arthritis
Every year we publish updates to our registry data on-line. This fall we’ll be continuing that trend, adding data from almost another 1,000 patients to the mix. This morning I’d like to go over the pain and functional data for patients treated with the Regenexx-SD...
ACL Tear Treatment: Helping a College Football Player Avoid Surgery
Brendan Tow is a college football player that I’ve known since he was a kid. He was excited to get a college football scholarship several years ago, but that elation was soon cut short by his first and then second ACL injuries. We’ve been able to help Brendan through...
Dr. Oz on Knee ACL Stem Cell Treatments
An open letter to Dr. Oz on Stem Cells for Knee ACL Injuries… We like Dr. Oz. He’s a master at educating patients, which strikes near and dear to my heart as someone who also believes that educating patients is the key to helping them recover. However, he recently...
Regenexx Interventional Orthopedics Fellowship
Reflecting On Interventional Orthopedics and Our Fellowship Last week, I spent a significant portion of the day working on the fifth generation of a device to accurately place stem cells into specific portions of the disc. This means working with a cadaver and testing...
Knee Replacement Pain
Knee Replacement Pain: Why Are We Performing This Surgery? So you take the leap and get a knee replacement for severe arthritis. This is a huge surgery, so you expect that if you take that risk your knee will be pain free, right? Not so fast. There are a number of new...
We Publish the World’s Largest Paper on Knee Arthritis and Stem Cells
Knee Arthritis Stem Cell Clinical Data Paper…What Works and What Doesn’t? We have a great team assembled now to take the massive amounts of data being collected by our one of a kind stem cell treatment registry and morph that it into peer reviewed publications. This...
Fish Oil Brand Matters
Whether We like it or Not…Fish Oil Brand Matters I’ve blogged many times before that fish oil is really good stuff. The Omega 3 fatty acids it can supply can be helpful for arthritis and for heart disease and can counter the bad Omega 6 fatty acids in the American...
Why are We still Injecting Steroids into Knees and Spines?
Steroid anti-inflammatories are powerful drugs at suppressing swelling. They are very commonly injected into joints that have arthritis and they generally work for a few weeks to months to relieve pain. However, is this a good idea? Many recent studies would argue...
Knee Arthroscopy Alternatives? 1 in 4 Patients End up with a Rapid Knee Replacement!
Most patients believe that arthroscopic knee surgery is some sort of “fix” for their knee. However, increasingly, the research isn’t bearing out that this is the case. A new research study shows again that you should really be considering knee arthroscopy...
Knee Arthritis Natural Treatments? Exercise beats Glucosamine in Protecting Cartilage!
How do knee arthritis natural treatments stack up? Can you protect the knee cartilage you have? Supplements like glocosamine and chondroitin have shown in some studies that they can help protect cartilage. Exercise has also shown some protective effects. How about...
Our Regenexx Network Providers are the Best of the Best in their Fields!
This past week we held our annual RegenexxNetwork Providers meeting in Colorado. One of the statistics we showed was that over the last 12 months we’ve had 309 physicians inquire on-line and that we accepted only 7 on the network. Why? As you may know, we carefully...
Supplements to Save Cartilage: New Research Shows Glucosamine/Chondroitin Work to Protect Cartilage
Are there supplements to save cartilage? I went to the American Academy of Orthopedic surgeons web-site the other day and looked up glucosamine. Knowing the research on both glucosamine and chondroitin and arthritis well, I was dumbfounded when I saw that the site...
Is Disc Stem Cell Therapy for Real?
This morning that subject is disc stem cell therapy. Yesterday a patient on a discussion board about biologic orthopedics jumped in on a complex expert discussion of stem cells to treat low back discs. While it’s easy to assume that patients have a good understanding...