The State of Knee and Hip Replacement: More Surgeries, Younger Patients, Higher Costs

You can’t drive a mile or two in the city where I live without seeing a bus bedecked with pictures of someone climbing mountains and hawking their new knee replacement. Now a new report confirms what I see, the number of these joint replacements is exploding. Is that a good or a bad thing? Let’s…read more

Stem Sells and Fake Scientific Articles: You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

This week a colleague showed me a small poster-sized mailer that was sent to his medical office, which is above. Yes, that really says “Stem Sells.” Let’s dig in… Marketing Medical Weight Loss, Financial Planners, Massage, and Stem Sells Where did this mailer come from? The company is called Superior Marketing, and their website (above) main…read more

More on IMAC Chiropractic “Stem Cell” Clinic Fundraising

As you may know, I often write about what I experience on a day-to-day basis. Last night, I got an unsolicited e-mail from a physician whom I respect about IMAC. This is the chiro stem cell clinic group that is trying to raise money in the public stock markets to expand nationwide. There was an…read more

Who Is the Physician at Your Local Chiropractic Stem Cell Clinic?

I often say you just can’t make this stuff up. That’s my sense this morning after looking into a local chiro clinic that offers seminars. I would like to use this example to teach you about the internal workings of many of these clinics nationally, as this post applies across the nation. They all seem…read more

Regenexx Team Publishes New Tendon PRP Paper!

Knowing how to dose orthobiologics, like PRP, is critical. However, we have very little published data, and physicians use different machines that produce different types of PRP at different doses. So to say that orthobiologics as a field is one big mess is an understatement. The Regenexx research team has been working to clean up…read more

Is the Nervous System in Charge of Our Stem Cells?

What controls how stem cells behave in the body? While we know that the cells detect what’s around them and respond, are there other things that tell them what to do? Turns out that the nervous system plays a role as well. Let’s dig into that topic. Understanding Stem Cell Proliferation Proliferation means growth and…read more

A Case Study of Severe CCJ Instability and Our PICL Procedure

CCJ instability is a life-changing problem. Think about the havoc that could be caused by the ligaments that hold your head being injured by trauma or becoming loose due to a connective-tissue disease. Headaches, imbalance, and a myriad of other symptoms become the new normal when you attempt to do anything. This morning, after several…read more

What Are the Bioethics of Sourcing Birth Tissues and Selling Them for Huge Money?

I was on the phone with a reporter the other day who brought up a great point about the ethics of selling birth waste and consenting mothers. It was one of those moments when you say to yourself, “I never looked at it that way.” So let’s delve into this critical topic. What Are Birth…read more