If You Have Severe Knee Pain, It’s Likely Because of Nerves and Not Arthritis

I’ve blogged before about our modern infatuation with imaging and about while MRI findings can be helpful, they can also mislead. In fact, I’ve blogged so much on this issue, you may want to take a look at the search of all blog posts on the topic of how MRI and pain often diverge. This is because…read more

Why Does Knee Stem Cell Therapy Produce Long-term Improvements in Patients Who Have Little Change on Their MRI?

One of the things that has always mystified us is that while we’ve seen nice improvements in cartilage or bone signal on the knee MRI’s of our patients treated with stem cells, sometime patients have long-term pain/function improvements without any MRI changes. How does this work? I’ve always had a theory that there is a natural supply of mesenchymal…read more

More Data that Knee MRI Findings don’t always explain Knee Pain

MRI knee pain? If you have a hole in the cartilage, a meniscus tear, or arthritis on your knee MRI that means that these things are causing your knee pain, right? Not so fast. Much research over the past few years has shown that structure as seen on an MRI scan doesn’t equal pain. This…read more

Finally a Way to Tell if that Meniscus Tear on MRI is Really causing Pain

A doctor discusses why in middle aged patients using an MRI to determine if you have a meniscus tear in need of surgery may be a bad idea.

Shoulder X-ray Findings not Related to Pain-No Surprises Here

A doctor discusses why bone spurs, arthritis, or lost cartilage on an x-ray or MRI might not explain why your shoulder hurts.