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.
Subscribe to the BlogJoint Sounds and How Ligaments Respond to Orthobiologics
Some patients with instability experience a mid-point in healing that can cause anxiety. It’s this time when things are tighter, but the number of pops, cracks, and instability episodes can climb rather than go away. So let’s dig into why this is and what’s happening. A Typical Joint Above we have a typical joint with…read more
How Another Bad Surgical Orthobiologics Paper Can Teach Us About QC
If there’s one journal that keeps regularly getting it wrong on orthobiologics, it’s the journal Arthroscopy. So let’s dig into a recent paper published in that journal. By understanding why it can’t support its conclusions we’ll learn quite a bit about the quality control of a bone marrow aspiration. Why? Because if you’re a doctor…read more
Welcome to the Hip Osteonecrosis BMC Club Yale!
One of the trends of the last 5 years is seeing more and more universities add the use of PRP and Bone Marrow Concentrate to their day-to-day patient offerings. One of those treatments that we’ve been using for more than a decade is a Bone Marrow Concentrate injection to treat Osteonecrosis of the hip. Now…read more
When Lab Research Scientists Play Doctors -The Knoepfler Files
Do you remember that famous 1970s TV quote, “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? Well, that’s what some research scientists are doing. Let’s dig into that today. Ph.D. vs. M.D. A Ph.D. is someone who begins with a Bachelors in Science degree and then takes additional graduate-level course work in their…read more
Riverside Biologics Health Review: At Home “Stem Cells”?
I get sent stuff by patients all the time. This week a patient reached out about Riverside Biologic Health’s IV and injection “at home” umbilical cord “stem cell” service. Hence, let’s dig in. The Emails I received two unsolicited emails from a patient describing himself as an advocate for Regenexx: “High Tina, please pass on…read more
Big Procedures, Big Problems. Little Procedures, Little Problems
I’ll never forget my brother-in-law’s comments when our kids were young. Having older kids at the time, he told us, “Little kids, little problems. Big kids, big problems”. Today I’ll modify his advice to “Big procedures, big problems. Little procedures, little problems”. Let’s dig in. The Trend Towards Minimally Invasive Care Minimally invasive in medicine…read more
What Is a Mitlet?
Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about platelets and PRP, something new crops up. That’s why I love medicine, as we’re just starting to know what we don’t know. Let’s explore a new idea, called “Mitlets”. What the Heck is a Mitlet? If you read this blog, you’ve heard quite…read more
Antidepressants and Back Pain
One of the hot topics in treating chronic pain is that we doctors should prescribe antidepressants. Why? Well as I used to say, many doctors view patients with chronic low back pain as crazy or lazy. Let’s dig into how well antidepressants work for back pain and dig in a bit more about why your…read more
