ACL Stem Cell Surgery: Do You Need Knee Surgery to Get an Injection?

I’m a pretty practical guy. At the end of the day, I try and relate everything to the real world, as in medicine, it’s easy to get caught up in the “medical bubble.” What do I mean? To get too caught up in the business or science of medicine and forget about how medical decisions…
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Can a Same Day Stem Cell Procedure Reduce Disc Bulge Size?

We’ve been impressed with using stem cell injections in the right kind of discs. While most patients believe that there is only one type of disc issue, there seems to be no end to the number of physicians willing to inject stem cells into discs. However, we’ve been more selective. Why? Eleven years of experience…
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New Research Shows that a Hip Replacement Won’t Increase Your Activity Level

Many of the patients I talk with are under the impression that they will become more active after hip replacement. They are concerned about undergoing such a big, high-risk surgery that involves getting their hip amputated, but they are hopeful and excited about the prospect of returning to running, mountain climbing, biking, or any other…
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Meniscus Treatment Without Surgery?

For many patients, meniscus surgery is the ninth inning or the fourth quarter. You’ve tried everything else—nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), steroid injections, and other traditional treatments—but nothing has eased your pain or fixed your meniscus. The meniscus-treatment bases are loaded, there are two strikes, and now it’s time for the heavy hitter, Meniscus Surgery, to…
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How to Avoid Surgery for Rotator Cuff Tears and Take Gold!

The MRI on the left above shows a complete rotator cuff tear that needs surgery. However, this martial-arts master knew that if he headed that direction, there was a significant chance that the shoulder he depended on to place opponents on the floor, as shown on the right, may never be the same. As a result, he…
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Watch a Stem Cell Disc Treatment: Step into Our Procedure Suite with Dr. Pitts

With over 2,000 posts on this blog, I’ve given you a lot of material to read over the years about what we do; however, there’s nothing quite like watching an actual procedure. I hope you are enjoying this series of videos allowing you to step into one of our procedure suites so you can observe…
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Spondylolysis Recovery Time: Avoiding the Knife

Spondylolysis is common in disturbingly young athletes who are born with weakened or disconnected areas of their spine. Sometimes this break in the spine bone heals, and sometimes it doesn’t. When the spot doesn’t mend, the patient usually undergoes a big surgery that can cause serious problems. So if your spondylolysis recovery time is taking too…
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HD-BMC-Regenexx vs. Bedside Machines

The fact that we doctors love gizmos is a big issue in same-day stem cell procedures. There are no less than 20 different machines and/or kits that will concentrate bone marrow stem cells. There’s just one problem with this concept: it’s at best a one-size-fits-all approach, and at worst it’s delivering an inferior stem cell procedure…
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