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Can Patients with an ACL Tear Avoid Surgery?
One of the more astounding things I’ve seen stem cells do in my decade long use of the orthobiologic is heal ACL tears that should have needed surgery. We’ve amassed a great library of before and after films that never cease to blow me away. However, the proof as they say is in the pudding.…read more
Second Chance with Regenexx Knee Stem Cell Injections
All too often, what we do becomes routine. You go to work, see your patients, intervene in their lives, and go home, eat dinner, watch something, interact with the family, catch up on e-mails, and go to bed to wake up and repeat. If you’re a bit crazy like me, you insert in there waking…read more
Hiking Knee Pain: Summiting 5 Peaks in 5 Hours
Can you summit 5 peaks in 5 hours with hiking knee pain? Chris is a local physical therapist who is “Boulder Active”- more on that later. He’s had a bevy of issues that face us all as we try to coax our aging bodies to do what we used to do. He’s a great example…read more
Knee Meniscus Surgery Outcome: Who Needs Knee Meniscus Surgery?
Gilbert was 59 years old when I first evaluated him back in 2011 for a 3 month old knee injury. He was limping back then due to a meniscus tear and was he was headed toward a knee replacement surgery. I just saw him this past week for the opposite knee and got an update that…read more
Fall 2015 Pain and Function Data for Regenexx SD Knee Patients
We are continuing the release this week of the fall 2015 registry data, here’s the 2015 Pain and Function Data for Regenexx SD Knee Patients. This means that the Numeric Pain Scale (NPS 1-10) was used as well as a LEFS (Lower Extremity Functional Scale) questionnaire. These are both research validated ways to collect improvement data…read more
Knee Stem Cell Research: 2015 Regenexx-SD Data
Knee stem cell research is still sparse in 2015. We’ve been collecting registry data for the last decade on the various stem cell procedures we offer. You would have thought that by now that we would have seen many other clinics and provider networks transparently publishing their data on knee stem cell injections. However, every…read more
Getting a Golfer Back on the Links with Stem Cells!
This is a great video about Mike, an avid golfer and a healthcare executive who underwent a Regenexx-SD knee stem cell procedure with Dr. Schultz. Mike says some interesting things about why many surgeons will dissuade you from trying stem cells before a knee replacement! Enjoy!
