Back Pain and Platelet Rich Plasma in a Competitive Figure Skater

Back pain and Platelet Rich Plasma? RS is a 19 year old female figure skater who was first seen by our clinic for chronic low back pain in November of 2012. She reported a 3 year history of low back pain that was worse with skating, which she performed at a very high level (training…read more

Epidural Steroid Injection Reviews: Here’s a Patient who has Tried Both Steroids and Using His Own Growth Factors

Patients are looking for answers to help guide them through what has been a tough month for epidural steroid injection reviews and side effects.  To that end follows For example, in one recent study, steroid epidurals increased bone loss in post menopausal women by 600% after a single shot! Yikes!  As a result, getting rid…read more

Read Your Own Back MRI for Multifidus Atrophy-A Major Cause of Low Back Pain

So now you know what a “multifidus” is and why it’s so critical that you find out if your major low back stabilizing system if off line. However, 99.999% of the time (in my experience), radiologists fail to read whether this muscle is normal or atrophied, despite copious research that a atrophied (read weaker) multifidus is associated…read more

Avoid Low Back Surgery by Learning More About the Most Important Back Muscle You’ve Never Heard Of…

If you want to avoid low back surgery, click on our video above (you may want to hit the replay button a few times to get a sense of it). It shows what happens to your low back bones when you walk (the green and red 3-D shapes). They move as well, but their movement…read more

Upper Back Surgery Procedures to Avoid

I always tell my patients that upper back surgery procedures are awful. If you happen to have a big herniated upper back disc pressing on your nerves and spinal cord or bony stenosis doing the same, an upper back surgery to remove the pressure is a much bigger and more invasive procedure than even low…read more

Only a Small Response to Regenexx-SD for Knee Patellofemoral Syndrome

We believe in transparency. Stem cell procedures for orthopedics aren’t magic and sometimes they fail or produce less than stellar results. MD is a 53 year old previously very active runner/biker who sought our advice about knee patellofemoral syndrome with chronic pain in February of this year. He had cartilage loss under the knee cap and was deemed a fair candidate for…read more

Drug Maker Warns that it’s Steroid used for Epidural Low Back Injections shouldn’t be Used that Way

Is there even more on steroid back injection side effects than has made the news? Although Bristol-Myers changed the label on its Kenalog steroid seven months ago to say that it’s “not recommended” for injection into the epidural space near the spine, the steroid is still being used that way, according to a Bloomberg report. You’ve…read more

Knee Stem Cells help Woman Return to Hiking the Grand Tetons

Can knee stem cells get your knees back in shape for the trail? LN is a 60 year old woman who was first seen by Dr. Hanson in May of 2010 with a two year history of left and a 10 year history of right knee pain. Her pain was worse with walking, stairs, water aerobics, and spinning…read more