Alternative to Surgery
Discover non-surgical and more cost-effective alternatives to traditional procedures with Regenexx® treatments. Specializing in orthopedic issues such as osteoarthritis, joint injuries, and spine pain, our innovative approach harnesses the healing power of your own body. Explore how our research-based techniques and patented protocols may help you avoid invasive surgeries
Subscribe to the BlogTommy John Surgery Alternatives: Why are So Many Baseball Players “Striking Out” when They try to Avoid Elbow Surgery with PRP?
Are there Tommy John Surgery alternatives available to professional baseball players? Well an interesting article this morning on the Sports Illustrated web-site suggests that one of the new mainstays thought to help players avoid Tommy John Surgery may be striking out. The gist is that pitchers and other players have turned to Platelet Rich Plasma…read more
Ankle Surgery Alternative: Using Interventional Orthopedics to Treat Cartilage and Bone Lesions without Surgery
You’re not going to see this ankle surgery alternative using interventional orthopedics anywhere else on earth (outside of select qualified Regenexx network providers). This patient is a Cirque du Soleil performer with a nasty cartilage lesion in the tibial part (top) of the main ankle joint. She didn’t start out seeking an ankle surgery alternative. Instead,…read more
Lateral Release Recovery: Do We Know this Knee Surgery Actually Works?
Why undergo lateral release recovery at all? If I had to create a list of bad knee surgeries just based on the hundreds of patients I’ve seen with failed knee surgeries, lateral release for knee cap tracking problems would be near the top of that list. Based on that experience, it’s another knee surgery with…read more Regenexx-SD Stem Cell Knee and Hip Replacement Alternative Data vs Surgery
How does the Regenexx-SD Stem Cell Knee and Hip Replacement Alternative stack up to knee and hip replacement surgery? As you may recall, I blogged a while back on the new data collected by orthopedic surgeon and Chicago Regenexx network provider, Mitch Sheinkop, M.D. He compared his knee and hip replacement patients from 2007 with…read more
Knee Nerve Pain? More Evidence that the Pain of Arthritis is Caused by Nerves
Is there such a thing as knee nerve pain? Your joint pain due to arthritis is caused by lost cartilage, right? Likely wrong. There’s been a mounting body of evidence that arthritis itself doesn’t cause pain, and in fact the pain of arthritis (and perhaps arthritis itself in some cases), is caused by nerves. The…read more Should You Find a Motrin Alternative? Over the Counter NSAID Risks and Statins…
Should you look for a Motrin alternative? You might be surprised that you can walk into a grocery store today and pick up a drug that has a 1 in 1,200 chance of killing you if you take it for more than 60 days. You also might be surprised that this same drug causes 4 heart attacks…read more Knee Replacement Alternatives and the Borg…
Can a knee replacement alternative make you like the Borg from Star Trek? In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” category this morning is a new surgical system that lives in the category of “Knee replacement alternatives”, but frankly…Damnnn…. (see above left). This is a surgically implantable system known as the “KineSpring” that does…read more
Epidural Steroid Injection Alternative? Resolution of a Large Disc Herniation with PL-Disc/DDD
Is the Regenexx-DDD procedure a lumbar epidural steroid injection alternative? OHA was a 29 year old who had failed a lumbar discectomy surgery and when seen last summer, had a 1.5 year history of recurrent low back and leg pain. His MRI at that time showed an impressive and very large central L4-L5 disc herniation.…read more
