Regenerative medicine
Regenerative medicine is an innovative field of healthcare focused on harnessing the body’s natural ability to heal and regenerate damaged tissues and organs. It involves using stem cells, tissue engineering, growth factors, and other techniques to promote healing and repair in conditions ranging from orthopedic injuries to chronic diseases.
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This book kept staring at me. It’s been sitting on my office desk for the last month plus, taking up a huge amount of space and doing a good job of standing out when compared to my patient charts. You see, it arrived in the mail in a big FedEx box. What is it? It’s…read more
Spondylolysis Treatment Options: Healing the Spine with an Injection Rather than Surgery
What happens when a precise stem cell injection is used instead of surgery to treat spondylolysis? This is the story of NH, an Ivy League wrestler whose career was stopped in its tracks by a traumatic fracture of the spine called spondylolysis. His parents knew that fusing this young man’s spine at his young age…read more A Shoulder Stem Cell Procedure 6 Year Follow-up
One of the benefits of being the first physician in the U.S. to use stem cell injections to help orthopedic patients is that every once in a while, an old patient will come back. While we track everyone in a registry, it’s not the same as a patient sitting in front of you telling you…read more Steroid Injection Risks: STOP INJECTING PATIENTS WITH STEROIDS!!!
I love blogging about my experiences in clinic, especially the ones that make my blood boil. One of those blood boiling issues is steroid injection risks. This past week, while seeing patients at our licensed, advanced stem-cell-culture site in Grand Cayman, I saw a guy whose hip MRI from December wasn’t that bad. In fact,…read more SI Joint Fusion Results and Review
This week I’ve been exchanging emails with a surgeon who does SI joint fusions. It’s been interesting as I’ve been seeing more and more advertising by a company pushing expensive, minimally invasive sacroiliac fusion devices. The surgeon didn’t like a post I did while back on the SI joint fusion technology, so I decided to…read more Does Cartilage Heal on Its Own?
Whether or not cartilage heals on its own, according to a new study, depends on your age, and, unfortunately, that age may be much lower than we realized. We’ve known for a long time that the healing cells in our cartilage, such as our hip and knee joints, drastically decrease as we age, slowing or…read more 8 Ways to Improve Your Stem Cells Prior to Treatment
Patients often ask us how they can improve the quality or quantity of their stem cells before a procedure. As the most advanced stem cell clinic in the United States, we have used over a decade of orthopedic stem cell experience and research to address 8 ways to improve your stem cells prior to treatment.…read more See One, Do One, Teach One: Your Orthopedic Regen Med Doctor Likely Has Little Training
This next weekend we’re teaching an orthopedic stem cell training for physicians course in Colorado through the Interventional Orthopedics Foundation (IOF). Maybe because of this, the past few weeks I’ve noticed the different levels of expertise at which orthopedic stem cells are delivered. The problem is that while this impacts the quality of the treatment…read more 
