Knee Surgery Alternative
Regenexx procedures provide non-surgical alternatives for knee conditions such as arthritis, meniscus tears, and torn ACLs. These treatments utilize the body’s own healing agents to reduce pain, improve function, and potentially avoid knee surgery or replacement.
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When we first began injecting ACL tears with stem cells many years ago, we tried quite a few techniques. At first, it was a very difficult injection that wasn’t reliable. However, after some anatomy review and testing several methods, we finally settled on a procedure that produced reliable results and then began teaching that through…read more
Easy Lower Back and Knee Instability Tests You Can Do at Home
On this page: Knee instability tests Lower back instability tests What if I failed any of these tests? How do you know if you have a knee stability problem? You may have popping or cracking in your knee joint or may feel sudden shifts. For example, when performing cutting exercises, you may feel your knee…read more
ACL Knee Surgery Side Effects: Helping Teens Avoid the Knife
Why are we treating our kids like NFL athletes? While aggressive orthopedic surgery in kids used to be rare, these past 10 years it seems like the norm. One of the areas of pediatric orthopedic surgery that has exploded is ACL reconstruction. However, as I’ll explain, while the research is suggesting that ACL knee surgery side…read more ITB Release Surgery – What Orthopedic Surgeons Won’t Tell You
Tight ITBs (iliotibial bands) are a cottage industry now. There are many cool devices designed to loosen up your ITB and a trip to any local gym will always turn up a few individuals aggressively stretching this area. When these efforts fail to produce results, some people turn to ITB release surgery. And while ITB release surgery may seem like…read more
Can You Treat a Meniscus Tear Without Surgery?
The research support on using surgery to treat meniscus tears is collapsing. Study after study shows that this common surgery doesn’t work and likely sets patients up for more problems down the road. However, there’s one type of meniscus tear that has been thought to always require surgery – a flipped bucket handle tear. This type…read more Microfracture Knee Alternatives: RIP Knee Microfracture?
Knee microfracture surgery is a common method used for cartilage repair. But does it work? A recent study says that microfracture knee alternatives should be used because the procedure is ineffective and should be abandoned. Knee microfracture is used for potholes in the cartilage. The theory is that poking or drilling small holes in the bone…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
